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The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

Faculty Focus

One student articulated the need for relatable, real-world, authentic tasks, stating, “My favorite activity was creating videos to connect with the assignments in class.” Structure Group Roles and Expectations : Assign roles based on instructional content to ensure equal participation and engagement among group members.

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The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

Faculty Focus

One student articulated the need for relatable, real-world, authentic tasks, stating, “My favorite activity was creating videos to connect with the assignments in class.” Structure Group Roles and Expectations : Assign roles based on instructional content to ensure equal participation and engagement among group members.

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How Kai Cenat saved my high school English class

eSchool News

For a lot of us, it has felt as though we are spending more of our time as graders determining whether a student completed an assignment with or without AI than we are actually providing meaningful feedback. As we did more of these assignments, more of the students wanted their videos shown in class.

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An AI Wish List From Teachers: What They Actually Want It to Do

Edsurge

school districts for the 2024-25 school year and found that 37% discussed AI in at least one board meeting. Steinberg says that some teachers use AI to highlight aspects of a student’s work aligned with a rubric but stop short of letting AI assign a grade. Grading, especially, is viewed with skepticism. asks Manahan. “AI

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AI can personalize learning–it can’t make students care

eSchool News

We’ve discussed grit, growth mindset, intrinsic motivation, relevance, autonomy, and purpose. They’ll memorize elaborate lore, master mechanics, mimic skills, and explain them to others—all without being assigned a single worksheet. And motivation, for adolescents, flows from that deep biological imperative. All of those are real.

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How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process

Teach Thought

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Why I Stopped Starting Class with Content—and What Happened Instead

Faculty Focus

In The Art of Change , I call this the Paradoxical Mindset Cycle —an approach that doesn’t resolve contradiction, but uses it as an engine for insight. I still assign readings. Here’s what I learned the hard way: Bad paradox = bad discussion If the question is too vague or too clever, students freeze. Isn’t that the point?