eSchool News

MAY 16, 2025

Navigating a clear path forward means equipping educators with solutions to integrate AI in ways that preserve critical thinking skills, and prepare students for the demands of an AI-driven future. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom?

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2025

Ethical AI use and academic integrity Generative AI tools introduce powerful possibilities including significant reductions, as well as a new frontier of plagiarism and uncritical thinking. The stakes are higher.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

AI prompting encourages critical thinking by fostering problem-solving, analysis, and synthesis while promoting ethical reasoning (Mollick and Mollick, 2023). Moreover, effective prompting can highlight ethical concerns, such as AI bias and misinformation, which promotes digital literacy (Kasneci et al.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

However, it also raises critical ethical, operational, and strategic challenges. This strategy encompasses identifying core values, assessing stakeholder needs, integrating ethical considerations, and defining leadership’s role in championing AI initiatives.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

If you’re like me, you have tried-and-true activities and assignments that you’ve relied on for many years. He recommends using this framework to guide your thinking: break down each assignment, project, or discussion board activity into disparate steps, then decide for which parts of the process AI use is appropriate.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Instead of fearing AI, we should actively explore its potential in the classroom, emphasizing how it can enrich the learning experience. Strategic Approaches to AI Integration One effective strategy is to intentionally redesign classroom activities and assignments to incorporate AI tools.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Now, educators are trying to navigate the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the field. This is because brain-based strategies allow students to analyze, synthesize, and apply information actively during lessons, increasing the transfer of that knowledge to long-term memory. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

By modeling critical thinking with students, you are leading the way to fostering intentional questioning, ethical principles, and reflective practices. Use AI for Your Benefit Generating activity ideas or lesson plans, creating rubrics, and assisting with basic writing tasks are three ways to easily get started with an AI chatbot.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

As AI automates many of the mechanical aspects of programming, the value of CS education is shifting, from writing perfect code to shaping systems, telling stories through logic and designing ethical, human-centered solutions. It’s about being active and engaged. Creative coding unlocks all of these possibilities.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

AI prompting encourages critical thinking by fostering problem-solving, analysis, and synthesis while promoting ethical reasoning (Mollick and Mollick, 2023). Moreover, effective prompting can highlight ethical concerns, such as AI bias and misinformation, which promotes digital literacy (Kasneci et al.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

This helped them apply knowledge, develop communication skills, and see themselves as active citizens. Through our “Kindness Everyday” initiative, teachers build routines that promote gratitude, emotional regulation, and peer empathy, often starting the day with check-ins or story-based discussions about real-life ethical dilemmas.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

By modeling critical thinking with students, you are leading the way to fostering intentional questioning, ethical principles, and reflective practices. Use AI for Your Benefit Generating activity ideas or lesson plans, creating rubrics, and assisting with basic writing tasks are three ways to easily get started with an AI chatbot.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

In week one, we created lessons for students on everything from organizational structure and ethical decision-making to budgeting; we then took students to visit local businesses to interview the owners. To harness that curiosity, we designed the deep dive around the question, “How do you build a small business?”

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Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

If you’re like me, you have tried-and-true activities and assignments that you’ve relied on for many years. He recommends using this framework to guide your thinking: break down each assignment, project, or discussion board activity into disparate steps, then decide for which parts of the process AI use is appropriate.

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Critical Thinking Assignments Academic Integrity Intelligence 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Purpose and System/Problem Boundary Identification Purpose: In liberal arts, the purpose is to develop well-rounded individuals with critical thinking, problem-solving, and ethical reasoning skills. Systems thinking helps students understand the broader purpose of their education and how different disciplines interconnect.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 29, 2025

Institutions should actively promote respect, professionalism, and mentorship while discouraging competitive or exclusionary behaviors. Institutions must not only implement policies but also actively enforce them. Additionally, he received training from the University of South Florida in Inclusive and Ethical Leadership.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Empathy in Practice : Demonstrate empathy by actively listening and responding to customer concerns, showing understanding of their emotions. Ethics in Practice : Discuss or present how ethical principles guide your behavior and decision-making process in patient care.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

They don’t just activate the intellect—they ignite curiosity. Ethics Why do people follow rules that conflict with their values? The Paradox Effect That one question—unresolved, unanswerable, alive—did more to wake up my students than any HBR case ever had. It turns out, paradoxes are rocket fuel for learning.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

They don’t just activate the intellect—they ignite curiosity. Ethics Why do people follow rules that conflict with their values? The Paradox Effect That one question—unresolved, unanswerable, alive—did more to wake up my students than any HBR case ever had. It turns out, paradoxes are rocket fuel for learning.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Purpose and System/Problem Boundary Identification Purpose: In liberal arts, the purpose is to develop well-rounded individuals with critical thinking, problem-solving, and ethical reasoning skills. Systems thinking helps students understand the broader purpose of their education and how different disciplines interconnect.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 8, 2025

In our Day 1 workshop, we will use the free 4 Shifts Protocol to redesign lessons, units, and other instructional activities for critical thinking and problem solving, greater student agency, more real-world authentic work, and robust technology infusion.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., In a world where AI skills and fluency will be necessary and marketable, colleges and universities have made efforts to embrace AI in the classroom (e.g.,

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Dr. Tony Zhang from Gies College of Business offered perspective on AI, ChatBot technology, and ethical academic support tools. Many were enrolled in leadership-focused sections of FSHN 101 and 120 and took on active roles in the analysis, writing, and design of the final open-access book: What Your Students Arent Telling You.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

It also aligns with the ethical stance of treating students as ends in themselves , not as means to personal or institutional goals. Indeed, research in contemplative pedagogy suggests that mindful presence can foster keener attention, active listening, moral sensibility, connection, creativity, and even “transformation” in the classroom.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

It also aligns with the ethical stance of treating students as ends in themselves , not as means to personal or institutional goals. Indeed, research in contemplative pedagogy suggests that mindful presence can foster keener attention, active listening, moral sensibility, connection, creativity, and even “transformation” in the classroom.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 19, 2025

Finally, let your work and research ethic at your current institution be outstanding. Tenure is nice, but diversified interests, your passion, a record of leadership in state and national professional activities, and a history of a strong work ethic will prove highly beneficial.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 22, 2025

However, maintaining healthy habits—such as regular sleep, eating nutritious meals, and staying physically active—can significantly improve your ability to cope with stress (Bodziony, 2022). Navigating end of life decision making in nursing: A systematic review of ethical challenges and palliative care practices. Shaban, M.M.,

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 19, 2025

Finally, let your work and research ethic at your current institution be outstanding. Tenure is nice, but diversified interests, your passion, a record of leadership in state and national professional activities, and a history of a strong work ethic will prove highly beneficial.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2025

Through Taubmans class, students are also identifying how AI increases the demand for skills that require human emotion, such as empathy and ethics. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom? During Taubmans class, he used a custom AI tool on his laptop to explore different scenarios where he could use AI in his career.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Encourage engaging debates with weird and light-hearted topics Less-serious topics engage students and help them practice public speaking skills through a low-stakes activity. Is war more or less ethical with unmanned planes and drones? A vegan diet is the only ethical way to eat. Is racism still prevalent in the United States?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Department of Education has released a guide intended to help educators and education leaders integrate AI into education ethically and equitably. Maximizing Opportunity: Guiding the Effective Use and Evaluation of AI (Modules 8- 10).

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2020

This e-book covers digital ethics for kids, helping them to understand how their behaviors online can impact their relationships in real life. The Faux Paw e-book series is a free resource for parents, educators, and caregivers to help teach children the importance of safety and security online. “It

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

And with this change comes a host of new questions—concerns about the ethical design and implementation of these new tools. In K-12 education, a focus on ethical considerations is of critical importance. This year, ISTE has added a new volume to the series— Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom: A Guide on Ethics and AI.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2022

But when it comes to ethical monitoring—concerned with how school systems set up their digital classroom management tools and teachers use them—we hear far too little. If we truly expect learners to develop those desired digital citizenship skills, educators must first become ethical monitors of their students’ online activity.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. In June, Dartmouth College dropped a cheating investigation into medical students following the dubious use of Canvas to track perceived activity during exams. Lynch says.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2021

Educators can facilitate conversations around ethics in technology with students so that these technologies develop equitably. After all, when it comes to emerging technology, equity in terms of factors like gender and race is crucial. Today’s schools can start laying the groundwork now. What societal trends or phenomena do you see?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Community: Help parents and students understand the collaborative power of AI and how to do this ethically and effectively Ethical guides: Provide guidance on the ethical use of AI, including privacy and data security considerations Instructional design: Help teachers understand how to design activities that incorporate AI to enhance student learning (..)

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