Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can sometimes be. Maybe the student skipped class or doesn’t have all the material handed out with the assignment. It’s a typical weekday afternoon and I’m sitting down with one of my students to begin brainstorming ideas for her essay.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 119

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. Instead of banning AI, educators can design assignments that leverage these tools. Enhancing accessibility AI tools can make learning more inclusive. Rethinking AI as a tool for empowerment 1.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 333

Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can sometimes be. Maybe the student skipped class or doesn’t have all the material handed out with the assignment. It’s a typical weekday afternoon and I’m sitting down with one of my students to begin brainstorming ideas for her essay.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 110

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Moving from essential to “renewable” assignments means that the students see the tasks as sufficiently meaningful to be kept and even passed on to others. What a waste!

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Assignments Motivation Science Study 131

eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Every month, my Advanced English teacher, Mr. Johnson, assigned our class one of the classics of English literature and expected us to demonstrate what we had learned with an accompanying essay. Consequently, I found myself in a pressure cooker each month, drafting essays in the final days and hours before they were due.

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Writing Failure Essay English 302

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

During virtual learning from 2020 to 2021, that was condensed to 60 minutes and we spent much of our time focused on reading texts, answering text dependent questions and writing essays. Effort was also a strength — he gave every assignment his all. John no longer had access to a laptop. John’s sharp intellect was apparent.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 174

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being. Simultaneously, educators needed to identify what content students needed, how to organize it and how to help students access it.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

So, I know firsthand how important equitable access to resources is, and how hard we educators work to set our students up for success. Teachers in rural areas are exceptionally creative, working around limited library access, funding restrictions, and the ever-present battle with scaling best practices to support their students.

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Students History Essay High School 341

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

The new features will help to improve student outcomes and confidence by making Paper’s ESS more engaging and accessible for all students. As always, students won’t have anything written for them or be given answers—Review Center provides rapid feedback on nearly any writing assignment. Visualize Your Equations with Paper Math.

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Essay Feedback Math Assignments 257

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. Educators who use the Chrome extension Brisk are using AI to ensure information is accessible to all learners. The company is fully committed to using AI for good.

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Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 331

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. The depth and breadth of research can vary greatly among students, benefiting from a flexible timeline.

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Teachers Art Feedback Writing 481

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

On the other hand, only one-fourth (25 percent) of parents with children ages 5 and up are very confident teachers will be able to identify assignments or essays produced by AI. 69 percent believe it should be utilized for research in classrooms or at school. 48 percent trust lesson plans and curriculum created with AI tools.

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Schools Essay Ethics Assignments 288

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Today’s digital-savvy students welcomed ChatGPT with open arms and began using it for writing assignments. According to a new study from Academic Help , 67 percent of students use AI for creating texts – the basis for their essays and other papers. The issue here is not only about the academic integrity violation.

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Writing Skills Plagiarism Teaching 246

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Before school libraries would begin to morph into multimedia digital information centers, they supported student literacy-building practices by providing access to their on-site book collections. Access to audiobooks and online tutorials. The Evolution of the School Library. Workshops on internet and information literacy.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 358

eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2023

AI in education isn’t about replacing human educators, and it certainly doesn’t mean that students are off the hook with AI-written essays and assignments. But the problem with AI today is the misunderstanding of its potential–especially when it comes to AI in education.

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Essay Education Learning Intelligence 246

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In this article, I’ll focus on preparation for the SAT essay portion. General preparation hints include: practice good writing with every school essay students write. Students find the prompt in their student dashboard and complete the essay. use academic-specific vocabulary whenever possible. take practice tests.

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Essay Mobile Devices Exams Writing 98

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 336

eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

All schools and district currently using myON will gain access to these new tools at no cost. The addition of the new writing tool further enhances the myON Literacy Toolkit, introduced in 2014, which includes a suite of close/active reading tools. We are extremely excited to launch myON 3.0” said myON President Todd Brekhus.

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Gamification Essay Learning Writing 232

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

By engaging in conversations with their students more often, teachers can gain insight into their students’ passions, academic strengths, and challenges so they can better access the authenticity of their work. Rather than relying on this score alone, his teacher called him to discuss the assignment.

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Academic Integrity Essay Intelligence Plagiarism 239

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. After assigning a “standard” written essay based on materials that we were reading in class, I would have students read their essays at the front of the class while I recorded them.

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Essay Failure Writing Students 181

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Instead, technology has allowed students to have almost instant access to different types of information, tools, and more in today’s day and age. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 14(1). Within this rapidly changing landscape, teachers have taken on a role much different from how we have historically been viewed.

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Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 307

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2015

The Free Teacher Edition, which was designed by teachers, allows educators to create online quizzes and tests, share tests with colleagues, build and store rubrics, assign tests to students through a student portal, access assessment results in real time, and generate student proficiency reports for the standards assessed.

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Quizzes Essay Education Testing 233

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like.

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Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 97

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

This is something that you should keep in mind when looking for where you want to study, as you can find an electrical and computer engineering online degree that gives you access to excellent information, whilst staying at home and being able to engage from all over the world. This means that the onus falls on you to complete everything.

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Lecturing Essay Motivation High School 88

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? If you’re like me, you’ve done much of your reading and learning through some kind of digital publishing platform—because it’s easy, accessible and often free. Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. engagement and passion.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Now, Pearson Writer digital writing resources are integrated with Microsoft Word, providing students access to support for improving their writing skills. It’s accessible anytime, anywhere—from any device including laptops, desktop computers, smartphones and tablets. Nine out of 10 students agree that Pearson Writer was easy to use.

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Essay Writing Assignments Attention 139

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2021

Students pay tuition to the colleges, which then share revenue with the nonprofits, which use the funds to pay for services that students access in person, including coaching, career advising and assistance with basic needs, such as meals and child care.

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Essay Coaching Study Accessibility 200

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Copyleaks can now be accessed by thousands of K-12 schools and universities around the world that are part of the ever-expanding Canvas community. solution for education and publishers including an AI-based grading tool for large volumes of essays and the ability to detect if source code has been copied with the Codeleaks tool.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Academic Integrity 193

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The most-cited applications included providing feedback on student work, creating professional development materials, supporting writing and content generation, creating course content, and enhancing accessibility for students with special needs. Schools should ensure all students have equal access to AI tools.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 200

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Andrew's Episcopal School in Mississippi, in an essay earlier this year. To Derek Newton, a journalist who writes a newsletter about academic integrity , the policy seems like an effort by OpenAI to dodge concerns that many students use ChatGPT to cheat on assignments. “It And some of those tools don’t allow minors to use them at all.

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Academic Integrity Assignments Essay Schools 188

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The case reveals insights about a question relevant to a marathon course or an academic course: How can the integrity of results be ensured when there is easy access to technology that can be used to cheat? In other words, regardless of students access to AI tools, cheating has been and continues to be endemic.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In addition, many students are using AI to write coursework and essays, which has caused a lot of outrage. Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. This could make quality education more affordable and accessible.

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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 183

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

Angel, a sophomore, has a homework assignment that’s due at midnight, and this is the only way he’s able to turn it in. When we have assignments, such as typed essays, I am not able to work on the assignment at home. In rural communities, the problem is even worse — only one in three can access the internet at home.

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Internet Essay Assignments English 130

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In some cases that means asking students to grant access to the version history of a document in a system like Google Docs, and in others it involves turning to new web browser extensions that have been created for just this purpose.

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Instructors History English Writing 203

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As the stress of the pandemic, the abrupt shift to remote and hybrid instruction, and the challenge of managing students’ social-emotional learning made teaching incredibly difficult for educators around the world, edtech made learning possible when physical classrooms were no longer accessible.

Skills 212

Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo, powered by ChatGPT technology, includes features meant to help students work through math and science problems, analyze text, chat with historical figures, navigate college admissions, and revise essays, among other features. It is also designed to help teachers create instructions for assignments and review student performance.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 261