eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators can even tap student enthusiasm for new technology by assigning–and assessing student learning using–multimedia projects. Secret 1: Multimedia assignments. These types of assignments are also harder to farm out to AI! Motivate students to act by incorporating action planning into assignments.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 344

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

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. But the demands of all my other classes and activities rarely afforded me the time to take him up on his offer.

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Writing Failure Essay English 302

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

And while listening and reading aren’t that difficult to conquer (both are passive skills about consuming the language, so they are easier for students to handle), active skills like speaking and writing are another thing: Why is writing so critical for students to master? Above-average writing skills are a must here to succeed.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 290

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I use it to support my lesson planning and to supplement that material with content students would find exciting, like online games and activities. revolution to more recent discussions on rights and liberties, there are lesson plans and activities available for whatever unit your students need. From lessons focused on the U.S.

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Students History Essay High School 341

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Student agency empowers learners to play a more active role in their own education by taking charge of the learning process under the guidance of skilled educators. For instance, 29 percent of students said: “Let me do assignments on topics that interest me if they are relevant to what we are learning.”

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Paper Live will help to address systemic inequities by providing an entertaining, educational after-school activity at no cost to parents. As always, students won’t have anything written for them or be given answers—Review Center provides rapid feedback on nearly any writing assignment. Launch your Career with Paper Hired.

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Essay Feedback Math Assignments 257

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

Combining PBL with makerspaces (also called maker education) gives educators an infinite number of projects, assignments, and activities that engage students and truly immerse them in learning. It could be a video, a photo essay, a 3D rendering, or even an interpretive dance performance. The best part?

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Curriculum Failure Essay Art 304

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s just more complex and time consuming, he says, to gauge how much a student has learned about, say, how to weigh two competing views of a historical event in an essay assignment. She says it’s those kinds of activities, rather than a focus on just learning a set of facts, that give students skills they’ll need as citizens. “We

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Essay Social Studies Education Critical Thinking 205

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. classes This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. It may be one like Storyboard That!

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Activities Learning Art Attention 172

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Daniel (2016) found that in an entrepreneurship classroom setting, design thinking creates an atmosphere favorable to learning, with students playing an active role in gaining experience from their activities. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 14(1). Industry and Higher Education , 30 (3), 215223. link] Dorland, A.

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Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 307

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. It may be a Canva templates, Storyboard That!, Team Challenge.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 358

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While the fears of using AI to cheat aren’t unfounded, how many educators have actually tried writing an essay using just AI? The discussion around the influence of AI writing on instruction has never been so active – all thanks to the launch of ChatGPT last year. How can AI be used in teaching? Now prove me wrong.”

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Ethics Education Internet Essay 298

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

As the person in this role, I work hand-in-hand with our schools and teachers to ensure they have the tools and knowledge they need to recognize and address social-emotional concerns, apply SEL in their daily activities and support our overall efforts to enrich our school community. This same approach would work in other classes as well.

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Teaching English Students History 304

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

AUGUST 26, 2015

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.

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Gamification Essay Learning Writing 232

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

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Rather than just taking notes, students can respond to surveys and questions using Google Forms or Formative, tools that allow teachers to pose questions or provide activities for students to respond to on their devices throughout the lecture. But the final product is much more authentic than an essay or Powerpoint.

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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. It may be a Canva templates, Storyboard That!, Team Challenge.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Yet, there were 22 students sitting in my classroom finishing their independent reading activity. He was pointing to the assignment and explaining the directions quietly to the new student. Shift individual assignments into collective activities. I had to use the bathroom. The timer went off. My body reminded me.

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Skills Teaching Essay Students 218

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

In pairs or small groups, ask them to create a choice board of activities focused on a unit youve already covered. The activity options in that column could include: Creating a short bio and visual timeline. This activity is part reflection, part creative expression, and it works across subjects.

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Testing Learning Critical Thinking Essay 195

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. She imagines teachers might use AI in the same way to create assignments or lesson plans. “No Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

The key to unlocking this new era of educational success lies in the integration of active learning strategies. By immersing students in dynamic activities, stimulating discussions, and collaborative endeavors, educators can transcend the limitations of the digital realm and revolutionize online teaching. Quizizz , or Google Forms.

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Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 98

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

To extend the activity, have them share their thoughts with classmates. 19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school. Should students be allowed to use AI on their assignments? Have students write to the prompt before class begins.

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

The key to unlocking this new era of educational success lies in the integration of active learning strategies. By immersing students in dynamic activities, stimulating discussions, and collaborative endeavors, educators can transcend the limitations of the digital realm and revolutionize online teaching. Quizizz , or Google Forms.

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Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 96

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

The first bucket of products typically boast features like chatbot capability, plagiarism detection and automated essay scoring. For most AI apps in education, engineers rely on a process called “supervised learning,” which requires the data to be annotated in some way, such as with a graded assignment.

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Essay Evaluation Intelligence Plagiarism 132

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It’s a unique phase where you’re expected to juggle academics, social activities, part-time jobs, and perhaps even self-care routines. A reputable essay writing service can be a crucial tool for students seeking custom essay solutions to enhance their performance. College life is unpredictable.

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Essay Counselling Exams Textbooks 178

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Since teachers grade so many papers and assignments, many educators see that as an unacceptable level of error. For some assignments, she has asked students to install an extension for their web browser called Revision History and then grant her access. Opting in doesnt make sense in this situation, she argues.

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Instructors History English Writing 203

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

We need low-stakes, shareable writing assignments to break the ice, so I use micro-writing exercises as often as possible. These assignments are efficient and have many academic benefits. In my classes, micro-writing assignments help students develop and strengthen their identities.

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Writing Assignments English Essay 168

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

By assigning digital projects like podcasts, infographics, and video essays, educators empower students to fully express themselves with new media and methods that students today find most familiar and relevant to their lives.

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

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MARCH 2, 2023

Classes don’t start and end according to an academic calendar, but begin when a student clicks “start course” and gets assigned a faculty member. On average, instructors are assigned 230 students at a time--a big change from the 20 or 30 I was used to at NYU and Stevens. Southern New Hampshire’s course completion rate is 90 percent.

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Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 177

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

John Warner’s forthcoming book, Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities , addresses this question directly. I go back to trying to decide what kind of thinking I'm trying to privilege with the assignment and then helping students get started on that path.”

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Writing Skills Teaching Essay 155

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. Iorad is a one-click extension for recording browser activity. Crx Mouse Gestures Screencasters rejoice!

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Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Their attempt to write specific goals demonstrates an inability to effectively move from essay and reflective language to professional language. They are not actively participating in their own education. And it is not only a matter of correct phrasing; an absence of language also means an absence of understanding. Responsibility.

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Writing Teaching Assignments Essay 116

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MAY 29, 2024

10 Tips of Mastering Time Management as a Student Introduction Finding a proper balance between extracurricular activities, academics, social life, and personal interests can feel overwhelming. Ensure that you have dedicated sufficient time to preparing for the important exam or completing the previous assignment.

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Exams Students Achievement Study 173

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

This essay is the last of a three-part series exploring the challenges facing educators of students who learn and think differently and elevating how SEL strategies can support educators in reframing and addressing those challenges now and in the long term. In a recent essay, Drs. Wanless and Tia N.

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Special Education Disabilities Education Distance Learning 196