eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While the fears of cheating have definitely been legitimate, have you actually tried writing an essay using just AI? They can learn about art from Frida Kahlo and about WW2 by chatting with a teenage version of Anne Frank. Just as the internet revolutionized education, AI will be the next game-changer.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Before we usher in the 2025-2026 EdSurge Voices of Change Fellows, we want to reflect on the important themes our recent cohort of fellows wrote about in their personal essays. Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C.,

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Individual essays, science fair partner projects, group programming assignments, digital and physical art pieces–every single assignment from now on has a silent partner. ChatGPT assisted in refining the essay topic or thesis statement, but the initial idea was student-generated. I just didn’t have time.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

The gravity-defying choreography in OK Go’s music videos is out of this world—which is also where the American rock band wants to send students’ art experiments. Dubbed “ Art in Space ,” the competition’s organizers want kids to come up with creative experiments that combine arts and sciences to launch into suborbit.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2019

The core tenets of computational thinking are the building blocks that help my students become better learners and problem-solvers across every area of their work—from all areas of reading and language arts. When they read a new book or prepare to write an essay, their process must begin with finding data.

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Skills Essay Critical Thinking Learning Styles 279

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

It could be a video, a photo essay, a 3D rendering, or even an interpretive dance performance. Mental health: Research shows that being creative through the arts helps heal the mind and body. Educators talk about writing across the curriculum–what about arts across the curriculum? Why maker education?

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2025

K-12 students can use AI tools in various ways to boost creativity through art, storytelling, music, coding, and more. AI-powered writing assistants help students refine their essays and creative writing, offering suggestions that improve clarity and expression.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Awards can range from academic excellence and perfect attendance to contributions in sports, arts, and community service. This could include science fairs, art exhibitions, or community service projects. Activities like creating portfolios, writing reflective essays, or presenting on their learning journey can be very effective.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

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. Ten to fifteen years ago, the whole class would read The Old Man and the Sea, analyze how Santiago develops over the course of the text, and write an essay.

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Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Whether a student is researching climate change, drafting an essay, or solving a coding problem, the ability to craft clear, thoughtful, and precise questions makes all the difference. These AI tools are incredible, but their effectiveness hinges on one thing: the quality of the questions asked.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

As the Curriculum Specialist with Vancouver Public Schools, I oversee Secondary English Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Running Start, and College in the High Schools. Close reading has become essential for all assignments, and many teachers have used claim-based essays based on each reading as formative assessments.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Paper’s new math literacy solution, Paper Math, gamifies math by allowing students to manipulate equations through an artful interface to help break math problems down into intuitive core concepts, making the experience immersive and fun. Visualize Your Equations with Paper Math. Launch your Career with Paper Hired.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

includes new student and educator interfaces, advancements in content recommendations based upon individual student interests and Lexile reading level, gamification, and improved enhancements to the state-of-the-art monitoring and reporting functions. myON has announced a redesign of its personalized literacy environment for PreK-12.

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Gamification Essay Learning Writing 257

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

Through their conversation, it became evident that the student had utilized ChatGPT to better understand the context of the art he was studying in the time period it was created. He went on to explain each piece of art in great detail, showing his understanding of the assignment.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Plagiarism 242

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 30, 2024

For students interested in arts, exploring the best art schools in the US can provide insights into top institutions offering excellent art programs. These may include standardized test scores (SAT or ACT), high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and personal essays. GPA, check out colleges that accept a 3.5

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

This means that students will soon be able to use GIA to complete their homework, write essays, and even create their own works of art. GIA is a type of AI that can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 268

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Art and music have long been considered the doorway to creative thinking. With over 1600 pieces of art, what makes this app unique is the wealth of multimedia content included — such as slideshows, audio commentary, essays, video interviews with artists and curators, and over one hundred out-of-print publications.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2017

They then create a persuasive video essay as well as a watercolor painting showing why their chosen nominee best displays the qualities of peace. I also show them how to use Google Explore to search for public domain images to use for their art project. Named for our school, David C.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. Use them to begin longer narrative essays, begin class discussions, or introduce elements of fiction in your language arts class. What are your goals for high school ?

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

AI tools have rapidly entered Language Arts classrooms. ChatGPT adds to the suite of AI tools that might be encountered in an ELA classroom, along with automated essay scoring, writing evaluation and feedback. It is critical to understand how we relate to these technologies in order to best leverage them for student learning.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

As the media specialist, I created the annual “Barrow Peace Prize” project in collaboration with the 2 nd grade classroom teachers and art teacher, where students from across all the second-grade sections pick six nominees from civil rights history and decide what attributes the winner must embody.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

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. The chatbot is getting trained on the same rubric to instantly give students feedback on their ability to critically evaluate historical text.

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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 202

eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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STEM Science Essay Learning 246

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me.

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 199

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 25, 2024

Sites that can lend you an APA essay writer or a PhD researcher can elevate your paper. Master the Art of Skimming Here’s a practical truth: there’s simply not enough caffeine to get you through reading every word of every research paper you find. So, it’s time to perfect your browsing skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2018

They are asked to celebrate the imagination in geometric proofs and formal essays, on canvas, the computer, and stage, in poetry readings and morning assemblies. And, they are guided toward winning attitudes in academics, athletics and arts so that they may meet the challenges that exist beyond their communities and experiences.

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Fairness Technology Essay Schools 130

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Even in middle school, Hyler still sees students struggle with concepts such as proper capitalization and tone, as they navigate between texting with friends and crafting essays or emails to adults. Naturally, social media plays a big part in Hyler’s writing instruction. So let’s mix them together and talk about them both.” It’s a process.

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 164

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. With assistance, he was able to produce a five-paragraph essay.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 164

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

So the Rise contest helped build an app for applicants and invited participants to share video essays and to participate in online mixers and video lessons as they made their pitches. It’s part of her larger effort called Project Lux that aims to combine art and advocacy to promote social justice. “If

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Essay Math Participation Science 204

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

My students enjoyed it so much that since then, we have participated in several including a one-pager challenge where students respond to a New York Times story, a contest where students submit an original podcast and a contest where students can share opinion essays on issues they care deeply about.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Nobody in the “learn to code” movement argues for this, and every educator would agree with Wolfram's analogy that teaching raw coding syntax alone would be like teaching English handwriting without teaching how to write an essay. The Wolfram Language is a great tool for certain educational uses, but not the best or only platform.

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Science English Education Languages 162

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

One quick rule of thumb for making sure your lesson includes at least some of the six Cs is to ask yourself if each student’s project—whether it be programming a robot to perform a dance or creating an art project based on a story—will look the same as their peers’ projects.

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Failure Art Essay Math 166

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Performance tasks require students to apply their knowledge, such as through an essay, performance, work of art, exhibition, and so forth. Objective tests are usually multiple-choice quizzes or other tests with single correct answers. For more examples, see 30 Examples of AI-Adaptive Software, Guide School, [link].

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 264

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.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

In an English language arts class, a student might place their first argumentative essay or piece of narrative writing next to a more recent one and reflect on changes in structure, detail, or voice. Then, guide them in reflecting on whats changed and why.

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Testing Learning Critical Thinking Essay 195