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. Despite its advantages, instructional coaches identified several challenges and ethical concerns.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 212

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. How did we get here?

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2023

8), and moral character traits such as “honesty, kindness, integrity, [and] ethics” (p. Instead, the study reported, today’s parents would like to see their children develop practical skills “for both life and career” (p. 10), critical thinking skills that allow them “to problem solve and make decisions” (p.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

Yet, many social, political and ethical concerns have emerged as the application of technology has grown in daily life. Undergraduate education offers a key opportunity for recruiting students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic, gender, and disability groups into computing.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Algorithmic bias cropping up in the hiring process prompted guidance from the Justice Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to help businesses and government agencies keep their AI-empowered employment practices in line with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Data privacy is very important in education.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. How did we get here?

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Special Education Study Languages 98

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

More than 100 people tuned in, with questions such as how to make VR accessible for students with disabilities and how to avoid motion sickness when using the technology. Something that we face a lot is accessibility. Obviously at this point, there are different types of disabilities for some students.

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Ethics Disabilities Learning Questions 114

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

Student projects helped to improve accessibility for individuals with disabilities by developing an AI-powered system that helps to translate spoken language into sign language for the deaf and hard of hearing. This ensures that AI tools are not only effective but also responsible and ethical.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. 2024 will be a mix of states and districts spending their remaining funds while also looking to the future.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A New York Times article referenced in the letters details accounts from students who say the identification systems used in proctoring tools had trouble recognizing their darker skin tone (thus blocking access to take the exam), and penalized those with special needs who request and receive accommodations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

That's really been kind of our mode of operation: How do we just enable exploration and not disable access,” he says, “or have people say, ‘It's the latest trend, and it'll go away.’” A lot of times, it’s the Wild West in terms of access to tools.

Ethics 157

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. Transcriptions ease and enable learning for many students with disabilities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

We previously shared how teachers are leveraging SEL to adapt student services and promote accessibility for their students during this unprecedented time. Race, class, gender, ethnicity and disability interact to create overlapping and interdependent systems of disadvantage for students.

Special Education 187

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

And the tools serve as a particular lifeline for neurodivergent students, who suddenly have access to services that can help them get organized and support their reading comprehension, teaching experts say. Peirce Caudell, of Indiana University, says her students have raised ethical issues with using AI tools as well.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For example, design a lesson for a fifth grade boy with a reading learning disability who is interested in sports. We might have an over identification of students with disabilities that are in a particular demographic, so there is inherent bias in anything that is AI generated simply because of the algorithm and the way that it is developed.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

AI also plays a role in the early identification of learning disabilities and special needs. Lastly, the rapid evolution of technology may outpace regulatory frameworks and ethical guidelines, leading to potential misuse or unintended consequences. AI also expands access to education.

Ethics 130

Ethics Education Gamification Learning Styles 130

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Ethics and Surveillance Ironically, Olsen says he created Proctorio because he felt that the remote proctoring services employing humans were too creepy and invasive. In other words, he sees himself as a champion of privacy when it comes to online testing.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. Transcriptions ease and enable learning for many students with disabilities.

Instructors 96

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 96

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

These automated programs are being used for various reasons, ranging from gaining access to popular classes to scamming institutions out of money. These include over-reliance, plagiarism, bias, limited creativity, ethical considerations, accessibility issues, oversimplification, distraction, and dehumanization of the learning experience.

Academic Integrity 135

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change.

Disabilities 64

Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 64

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

His office also oversees making sure content meets accessibility guidelines. Instructors also “don’t have to be the expert in [open source] licenses or Section 508 compliance,” he adds, referring to a federal law that mandates electronic teaching materials are accessible to people with disabilities.

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Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 115

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

The first domain is associated with taking a team approach to maintain shared values, engage in ethical conduct, and engage in respect for each other. The educator will need to create an inclusive and fair learning environment for all students as it relates to access to the materials following the event (Billings & Halstead, 2024).

Learning 111

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

The first domain is associated with taking a team approach to maintain shared values, engage in ethical conduct, and engage in respect for each other. The educator will need to create an inclusive and fair learning environment for all students as it relates to access to the materials following the event (Billings & Halstead, 2024).

Learning 111

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

The first domain is associated with taking a team approach to maintain shared values, engage in ethical conduct, and engage in respect for each other. The educator will need to create an inclusive and fair learning environment for all students as it relates to access to the materials following the event (Billings & Halstead, 2024).

Learning 110

Learning Universal Design Fairness Course Design 110

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

With increasing access to different types of AI chatbots, and increasing advances in AI technology, “preventing student cheating via AI” has risen to the top of the list of faculty concerns for 2023 (Lucariello, 2023). Additionally, ChatGPT became more advanced – shifting from using GPT-3 to GPT-3.5

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

With increasing access to different types of AI chatbots, and increasing advances in AI technology, “preventing student cheating via AI” has risen to the top of the list of faculty concerns for 2023 (Lucariello, 2023). Additionally, ChatGPT became more advanced – shifting from using GPT-3 to GPT-3.5

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

These automated programs are being used for various reasons, ranging from gaining access to popular classes to scamming institutions out of money. These include over-reliance, plagiarism, bias, limited creativity, ethical considerations, accessibility issues, oversimplification, distraction, and dehumanization of the learning experience.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

The first domain is associated with taking a team approach to maintain shared values, engage in ethical conduct, and engage in respect for each other. The educator will need to create an inclusive and fair learning environment for all students as it relates to access to the materials following the event (Billings & Halstead, 2024).

Learning 92

Learning Universal Design Fairness Course Design 92

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. 2024 will be a mix of states and districts spending their remaining funds while also looking to the future.

Gamification 130

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Iowa’s anemic Internet access. Somehow we elected a racist, xenophobic, conspiracist, serial groper of women to be the next leader of the world’s most powerful nation. The declining economic value of routine cognitive work. Teach students higher order or critical thinking skills? Not if the Texas Republicans have their way.

Disabilities 106

Disabilities Critical Thinking High School High School 106

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It elevated them in their communities, it allowed them to access dangerous ideas, dangerous learning, and gave them the ability to wield the power of the word to reinterpret reality, to reinterpret American ideas or to simply interpret them and apply them to their own situation in a way that was very revolutionary.

Education 107

Education Disabilities History Writing 107

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2020

Digital divide is a term used to describe the gap present in society between those who have access to the internet and technology and those who don’t. The economic downturn has affected incoming college freshmen and returning students, and income once accessible to fund technology needs may no longer be available.

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Laboratory Ethics Internet Disabilities 207

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

When teachers have access to asynchronous or synchronous virtual trainings and in-person, hands-on workshops, they are inspired to bring this content to their students, which is critical to moving a clean energy economy forward. Looking ahead, the adoption of wearable and mobile credentials is poised to transform how schools manage access.

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Communication Skills Science Reading 356

eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2025

Staten teaches English at Northeast High School, the citys largest high school, where many of her students have learning disabilities, are dealing with trauma and mental health challenges, or are learning English. It was like some I, Robot, theyre going to take over the world kind of stuff.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2025

Several years after the release of ChatGPT, which raised ethical concerns for education, schools are still wrestling with how to adopt artificial intelligence. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) One of the groups on the TeachAI steering committee is ISTE. So, whats in the guidances?

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