eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For example, students can use AI for initial brainstorming or as a tool to refine their writing, requiring them to demonstrate understanding by reflecting on or critiquing AI-generated content. Students might use AI to generate story starters, design prototypes for projects, or analyze data for science experiments.

Ethics 333

Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 333

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

By Carl Hooker One of the biggest misconceptions about AI in education is that it will encourage students to cheat and cause academic integrity concerns. Educators find it socially acceptable for a student to hire a tutor to help them write their college admission essay. Did students cheat before AI was around? ABSOLUTELY.

Fairness 297

Fairness Beliefs Evaluation Essay 297

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. Crucially, this method of writing a case will allow the educator to stay in charge at every step in the design, and it will use GenAI as a research and creative assistant.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 124

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. As educators, it is important to understand the underlying causes of this behavior and develop assessments that encourage academic integrity.

Academic Integrity 206

Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 206

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Columbia University’s Science of Learning Research Initiative (SOLER), our work is dedicated to examining the academic experience of our students and instructors through a scientific lens. Much of the discourse about generative AI in higher ed has focused on issues of academic integrity.

Academic Integrity 206

Academic Integrity Education Instructors Assignments 206

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. Crucially, this method of writing a case will allow the educator to stay in charge at every step in the design, and it will use GenAI as a research and creative assistant.

Study 111

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 111

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rise of ChatGPT, Google Bard, New Bing, and others in the academic space, however, is skyrocketing. As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. Students may display intra-personal writing inconsistency.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. Students need opportunities to learn with and about AI.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. Students need opportunities to learn with and about AI.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2025

This moment demands more than efficiency gains and academic integrity policies; it requires rethinking our educational model. Early in my career as a teacher, I was asked to write my teaching philosophy. This moment demands more than efficiency gains and academic integrity policies; it requires rethinking our educational model.

Education 142

Education Academic Integrity Learning Fairness 142

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Joyce Carol Oates Says Teaching Creative Writing Is Like Training Boxers Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates has a passion for working with students, but it’s one she has trouble putting into words. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

Instructors 139

Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 139

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

By fostering self-awareness and self-regulation, metacognitive strategies empower students to monitor their learning processes, set achievable goals, and adapt their approaches to overcome linguistic and academic challenges. The challenges of supporting ELLs across content areas Teaching ELLs presents unique challenges.

Essay 168

Essay Ethics Feedback Language 168

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. That said, given the right prompts, AI software can truly deliver some lovely, thoughtful college-level writing.

Essay 145

Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 145

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rise of ChatGPT, Google Bard, New Bing, and others in the academic space, however, is skyrocketing. As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. Students may display intra-personal writing inconsistency.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Where is the robot to ease the grading labor of the weary writing professor beast?

Plagiarism 116

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Low-stakes practice: Use frequent formative assessments such as polls, quizzes, games, or writing and discussion prompts to reinforce and retrieve essential concepts. Educators should teach students about proper citation practices and academic integrity while allowing space for mistakes as part of the learning process.

Plagiarism 118

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Where is the robot to ease the grading labor of the weary writing professor beast?

Plagiarism 111

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

The few years of operating in a pandemic saw higher education institutions heightening their efforts in online proctoring, ensuring academic integrity, and earnest longing for “things to return to normal.” Higher education locally and internationally pivoted to distance learning during the pandemic. This is a call to action!

Education 116

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed higher education. Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments.

Essay 126

Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Low-stakes practice: Use frequent formative assessments such as polls, quizzes, games, or writing and discussion prompts to reinforce and retrieve essential concepts. Educators should teach students about proper citation practices and academic integrity while allowing space for mistakes as part of the learning process.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed higher education. Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments.

Essay 111

Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

The few years of operating in a pandemic saw higher education institutions heightening their efforts in online proctoring, ensuring academic integrity, and earnest longing for “things to return to normal.” Higher education locally and internationally pivoted to distance learning during the pandemic. This is a call to action!

Education 98

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors and students press pause for winter break, journalists at EdSurge are likewise taking some time away from writing and editing during the last week of 2023. Jeff While it’s not strictly about education, I’ve become an even bigger fan this year of the Hidden Brain podcast , which explores the science of what makes us tick.

Reading 147

Reading Essay Instructors Culture 147

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I’m taking four courses this term and this is the only time that the impact of AI has been brought up, even though my other courses are computer science and engineering where this technology is going to be most disruptive. It’s true that we can’t predict where this is all going, but I feel better just having discussed it.”

Minute Papers 134

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. That said, given the right prompts, AI software can truly deliver some lovely, thoughtful college-level writing.

Essay 98

Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. AI and Academic Integrity: Redrawing Assessment The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to rethink traditional assessment methods. Spitale et al. Basic Books.

Faculty Development 88

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I’m taking four courses this term and this is the only time that the impact of AI has been brought up, even though my other courses are computer science and engineering where this technology is going to be most disruptive. It’s true that we can’t predict where this is all going, but I feel better just having discussed it.”

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. AI and Academic Integrity: Redrawing Assessment The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to rethink traditional assessment methods. Spitale et al. Basic Books.

Faculty Development 78

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 78

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 16, 2025

If I continue to write books, will anyone bother to read them? Issues like academic integrity and plagiarism have already pushed us to rethink assessment strategies and the concept of a learning community. Essentials of the new science of learning: The power of learning in harmony with your brain. Mollick, E.

Intelligence 52

Intelligence Education Plagiarism Beliefs 52

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2025

Reducing teacher burden What it means : AI can take over repetitive or administrative tasks–such as drafting rubrics, generating assessments, and writing newsletters–giving teachers more capacity to lead instructionally. Highlight strengths and next steps in a warm, constructive tone.”

Ethics 224

Ethics Teachers Essay Feedback 224