Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

After all, students quickly spread the word on TikTok and other social media platforms that with a few simple prompts, a chatbot could write an essay or answer a homework assignment in ways that would be hard for teachers to detect. Many teachers at the event weren’t actively worried about being replaced by bots.

Teachers 217

Teachers Education Instructors Language 217

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. 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. Should they disclose that to students?

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Topping our monthly Top 5 list was a look at how professors are rebooting oral exams to respond to concerns that students can now use ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat on essays. Also making the list was an essay by a teacher launched into a leadership position at age 26 reflecting on a lack of support during the shift.

Exams 147

Exams Essay Reading STEM 147

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MARCH 2, 2023

In the early days of online education, I imagined that virtual classrooms would follow the same basic model as in-person ones, with an instructor leading the same number of students typical in a campus class. Students attend WGU entirely on screen, with instructors engaging with them virtually by email, phone, text and video.

Teaching 177

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 177

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! The instructor was really supportive. 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.

Teachers 207

Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 207

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JANUARY 17, 2024

This provider will complete your essays with ease, allowing you to allocate some time to mindfulness practices. Providing coloring materials and encouraging artistic expression can be a relaxing and constructive activity. Guided Meditation Guided meditation sessions, led by trained instructors, can introduce students to meditation.

Schools 166

Schools Instructors Coaching Essay 166

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2023

By Rebecca Koenig Some entrepreneurs predict that a new digital world is being born, one where internet users retain ownership of their online activities, thanks to blockchain technology that reduces the control of education institutions and corporations. Tapia In a moving personal essay, Ruby C. What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

Education 174

Education Exams Instructors Essay 174

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

Gregg Coccari, the CEO of Udemy, says that since its platform allows almost anyone to create a video course, just as YouTue allows any user to upload video, that it is up to instructors on whether to use coupons or to temporarily make their courses free to drive interest. Nineteen instructors made more than $1 million last year, he adds.

Instructors 178

Instructors Essay Knowledge Internet 178

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

This new solution will harness this transformative moment by enabling educators with an integrated Khanmigo experience that supports human-driven, technology-enhanced essay feedback and grading, lesson planning and rubric creation. We’re using AI to show teachers not just the final essay, but how the student got there.

Essay 130

Essay Ethics Instructors Writing 130

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AUGUST 23, 2023

This way, college kids might get closer to understanding how to write cause and effect essay. In an argumentative essay, the cause-and-effect lays forth the chain of events that led to the current state of affairs. Finding inspiration in cause and effect essay ideas lists on the Internet is a way out if you feel stuck.

Essay 146

Essay Teaching Methods Instructors Motivation 146

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

After a long weekend of grading essays, I submitted the final grades for English 101. It was fulfilling to come up with educational activities and to see the impact it had on the children I worked with. Reality Sets In My first adjunct instructor position was at a community college. We were about to head into our winter break.

Instructors 162

Instructors English Essay Disabilities 162

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

Since forming in 1998, the band has received a steady stream of emails, physical letters and even VHS tapes over the years from a variety of teachers—from preK to graduate school, homeschoolers and even government flight instructors—saying they found inspiration for educational activities from its music videos.

Art 166

Art Essay Students Science 166

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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. Writing Across the Disciplines : Jason Ferguson summed up this approach best in a 2014 essay: “Every academic discipline requires writing of some kind and most of them require it frequently.”

Writing 155

Writing Skills Teaching Essay 155

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. The best student goals have little to do with the instructors. Responsibility. I believed they would.

Writing 116

Writing Teaching Assignments Essay 116

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“This past year has allowed us insight into how disruptive innovation can harness the power of technology to ignite a new generation of empowered citizens,” enthuses Martha Bongiorno, a Media and Education Technology Instructor in Fulton County, Georgia.

Skills 212

Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? What are its merits and limitations?

Faculty Development 88

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. Lack of u nexpected q uestions : When the exam content is known in advance, the opportunity for instructors to ask questions that test critical thinking and problem-solving skills is reduced.

Exams 119

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 119

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. Assessment is a critical component of the teaching and learning process.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Instructors are equally susceptible to the deeply counterintuitive nature of learning. Personalized learning is about much more than recommending the next instructional activity or creating content that keeps learners engaged. Psychology and the real world: Essays illustrating fundamental contributions to society, 56-64.

Education 159

Education Evaluation Failure Essay 159

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Classroom response systems make the practice of regular “temperature checks” an impactful and efficient activity in even the largest classrooms. In this way, backchannels serve as a formative assessment for instructors to identify ways to improve the delivery and impact of our teaching. Academically? Emotionally?

Course Design 128

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It can answer questions, explain concepts, and engage in interactive dialogue, promoting active learning and deeper understanding. Generate activity ideas that I can use for a 20-minute activity. Generate activity ideas that I can use for a five-minute activity.

Communication 135

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. Lack of u nexpected q uestions : When the exam content is known in advance, the opportunity for instructors to ask questions that test critical thinking and problem-solving skills is reduced.

Exams 111

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being.

Ethics 110

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 110

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being.

Ethics 109

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 109

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2023

However, as a former instructor of online courses, I have seen first-hand the power of introducing a librarian to a group of online students and how such exposure can lead to curiosity on a topic and deepen student learning. With that exposure, the librarian can suggest additional activities and anticipate student reference needs.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Instructors Learning Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Acrobat) to apply built-in page layouts Tables do not work well with screen readers, so consider alternative organizational elements Use descriptive wording for hyperlink text rather than “click here” Post most instructor-created content within LMS content pages (i.e., Cold or random call.

Disabilities 144

Disabilities Exams Lecturing Education 144

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. Assessment is a critical component of the teaching and learning process.

Fairness 109

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 109

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JULY 14, 2023

The general public and scientists combine their efforts to carry out large-scale activities so that the labor involved in the projects is distributed. This included gentlemen scientists such as Darwin and Newton, who were involved in science more as a hobby or an activity as opposed to a formalized profession.

Science 144

Science Participation Laboratory Interdisciplinary 144

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As a bit of a too-long-didn’t-read (TLDR), I worked as a K-12 educator, an instructional developer, and a post-secondary instructor. For example, creating an outline that eventually leads to some type of media, such as an essay or a podcast. So, I facilitated peer-to-peer workshops. online chat, discussion boards).

Feedback 111

Feedback Secondary Education Teaching Philosophy Assignments 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? What are its merits and limitations?

Faculty Development 75

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 75

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Classroom response systems make the practice of regular “temperature checks” an impactful and efficient activity in even the largest classrooms. In this way, backchannels serve as a formative assessment for instructors to identify ways to improve the delivery and impact of our teaching. Academically? Emotionally?

Course Design 111

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

To make true mobile learning a reality, here is where we, as an industry, should focus: The creation of flexible experiences The average student juggles half a dozen—or more—classes, a variety of extracurricular activities, sports commitments, and perhaps a part-time job.

Mobile Devices 113

Mobile Devices Learning Quizzes Essay 113

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 17, 2023

Faced with the stress of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to design assignments to outwit ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that can write essays, or figure out how to get students to come to virtual office hours. If you feel brave, start with a blank course and only upload files or import activities that you need.

eLearning 111

eLearning Interdisciplinary Plagiarism Assignments 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It can answer questions, explain concepts, and engage in interactive dialogue, promoting active learning and deeper understanding. Generate activity ideas that I can use for a 20-minute activity. Generate activity ideas that I can use for a five-minute activity.

Communication 111

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 16, 2025

I also drew on the memory of past instructors and tried, at times, to work on variations of teaching techniques that I had seen them use so well. In a recent Harvard Business Publishing essay, Lan Nguyen Chaplin similarly believes that students thrive in classrooms where their professors show vulnerability (2024).

Instructors 87

Instructors Lecturing Essay Art 87

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. Teachers can create multimedia assessments and activities for their students, who record and embed their responses. Evolve your programming.

Schools 246

Schools Languages Language Reading 246

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 17, 2023

Faced with the stress of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to design assignments to outwit ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that can write essays, or figure out how to get students to come to virtual office hours. If you feel brave, start with a blank course and only upload files or import activities that you need.

eLearning 98

eLearning Interdisciplinary Plagiarism Assignments 98