eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Ninth-grade English was a paradox for me—both the best and worst year for helping me learn to write. 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.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. 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. John no longer had access to a laptop. I used paper and pencil.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 172

eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Key points: It is critical to monitor AI systems for bias and impact on student groups AI use guide helps students navigate AI in learning AI’s transformative role in accessibility For more news on AI and bias, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In the quickly evolving landscape of AI, education stands at the forefront.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. Enhancing accessibility AI tools can make learning more inclusive. For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers.

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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 336

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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

percent) expect math to be their hardest subject, followed by English (14.7 percent), and writing papers or essays (44.1 These platforms help with tasks such as breaking down complex math problems, summarizing difficult readings, generating essay ideas, and even providing personalized study plans. percent) and science (13.0

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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 329

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Although this allowed students to access knowledge, they weren’t empowered to become learners and make choices for themselves. In English language arts, students need to analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot. Q: Can you give me an example?

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Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) JULY 27, 2022 — TutorMe , an online tutoring solution creating access and opportunity for all students, announces a partnership with Park County School District #16 in Meeteetse, WY, supporting students with high-dosage tutoring and supplemental academic support. To learn more about TutorMe, please visit [link].

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2022

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) — TutorMe , an online tutoring solution creating access and opportunity for all students, announces a partnership with Columbia Public Schools in Columbia, MO, supporting students during the 2022–2023 school year with learning recovery and academic advancement.

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Secondary Education Essay Schools Students 246

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Seventy percent of high school juniors and seniors believe AI-powered tools, including ChatGPT, can be a resource in brainstorming ideas for their college essays or short answer responses. AI-powered tools can help students brainstorm ideas for a college essay.

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Essay Exams Testing High School 278

eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Students with access to myON, Renaissance’s digital reading platform, more than doubled the amount of time they spent reading in the fall of 2020 compared to the fall of 2019.”. Gene Kerns, vice president and chief academic officer at Renaissance. About Renaissance.

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Reading Study Essay English 246

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 Students Writing 186

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Test-optional and test-blind admissions in recent years could mean a radical expansion of access to selective colleges. Thinking Nation , for instance, a nonprofit dedicated to improving social studies education, recently switched from paying educators to grade essays based on a rubric to an AI chatbot.

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Education Testing Feedback English 295

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

many libraries provide access to Brainfuse HelpNow, which offers live, one-on-one academic support at no cost to families. Brainfuse HelpNow has been providing students with expert tutoring for decades through long-standing partnerships with libraries nationwide, ensuring access to high-quality educational resources. Across the U.S.,

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Essay Schools Internet Feedback 154

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

This essay was adapted from a piece posted on Medium. I have changed their names in this essay to protect their privacy and they’ve agreed to have their story shared.) I looked at the form myself, and even as a native English speaker, it felt daunting. Dara needed to fill out an I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition form.

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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 265

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. Can process tracking turn out to be the answer to checking student work for authenticity?

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Instructors History English Writing 201

Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

For teachers, this means providing equal access to educational experiences and ensuring that all students have the support and resources they need to succeed academically, socially and emotionally. For Mulcahy, UDL means “making sure that all of the students have an accessible way to learn.”

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Universal Design Disabilities Mobile Devices Students 211

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! Chelsey McClelland I really loved that every module opened with a fun way that AI can be used — it's not just ChatGPT writing an essay or MagicSchool AI making your lesson plan. I knew of ChatGPT from reading articles online, but I didn't know how it worked.

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Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 207

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cleveland’s leadership and vision for equitable healthcare access have been instrumental in expanding access to healthcare services for students across the district. Cleveland relentlessly advocated for equitable access to Hazel’s mental health services in all district schools rather than limiting services to a small group.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 319

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

When we have assignments, such as typed essays, I am not able to work on the assignment at home. While 96 percent of Americans in urban areas have access to fixed broadband, only 70 percent of New Mexicans have broadband access at home. However, students may have no internet access when they get home.

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Internet Essay Assignments English 144

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

billion in venture capital, according to EdSurge data—most notably Chinese startups that connect local students with English tutors. So in 2014, Cutler started GradeSlam in an effort to give every student in a school or district access to online tutoring support. Since 2016, these companies have raised more than $1.2

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Essay Disabilities English Communication 143

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The teacher’s 10th grade class had just finished op-ed essays on a topic of their choice, and Kyle had chosen to examine the economic impact of illegal immigration on the U.S. I responded.

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Essay Beliefs Students Languages 168

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

I went to a liberal arts college and spent most of my undergrad years not focusing particularly closely on the computer science coursework, but instead focusing on different areas of political science, of English. Those students get the access to feedback and support, and other students don't.

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Achievement Writing Essay Languages 164

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. After all, the best way to learn is to teach.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

This is a genuine issue for students with non-English backgrounds mainly. Firstly, they cannot participate freely in project groups with native English speakers. All Round Wring Proficiency Takes A Hit Academic writing becomes a stable grey area for students weak in English. Online help is there and easily accessible.

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Language Languages Communication English 120

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

million students accessed the Common App, created a profile and began working on at least one application. He and Preston Magouirk, chief data officer at the nonprofit DC College Access Program, took that step back. This underscores the fact that people who access the Common App at all have a high baseline enrollment rate.

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Counselling Essay Students High School 210

Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

If they had AI detected in an essay, they could prove they had written the essay by allowing me editing access, which allows me access to the detailed version history. Editing access would allow me to see those three crucial factors and they would have their proof of composition. The English Journal , 97(5), 23-27.

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Academic Integrity Essay Plagiarism History 116

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. Michael notes that, of the 60 students who accessed digital skills-training services at Central Piedmont Community College this past semester, about 69 percent were members of minority groups.

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Teaching Culture Internet Students 202

Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

If they had AI detected in an essay, they could prove they had written the essay by allowing me editing access, which allows me access to the detailed version history. Editing access would allow me to see those three crucial factors and they would have their proof of composition. The English Journal , 97(5), 23-27.

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Academic Integrity Essay Plagiarism History 110

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

West-Smith, a former English teacher, middle-school principal, and district curriculum supervisor, is the Curriculum Content Manager at. The thing that folks don’t realize is that often times English teachers have not had extensive training in teaching writing,” West-Smith says. Prompts, Essays and More. Patti West-Smith.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 135

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.

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

in the thick of filling out college applications, that might mean putting off writing an admissions essay or sending in a transcript. He says that’s been especially helpful in his English class, where it’s not unusual to have overlapping essay assignments. “[The I am, unfortunately, quite familiar with this sensation.

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Essay Students Quizzes Writing 154

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As librarians, our job is to not only give students and teachers access to resources they need to succeed, but to be their guide when choosing these resources. Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English. All students deserve access to a school library.

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Schools Languages Language Reading 246

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

The population of English learners in our schools continues to grow every year; if you’re a teacher reading this, you have probably taught at least a few students whose first language is not English. Amazon | Bookshop.org These kids speak English now, so what’s the problem? There must be something wrong with you.

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