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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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Essay Art 249

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

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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Essay Feedback Math Assignments 257

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

But even with all this excitement, there are still many questions to answer. One key question is, “How do school and district leaders ensure academic integrity as new technologies continue to emerge, like generative artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, and more?”

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Plagiarism 239

eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

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. 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.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 264

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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Essay Students History Grades 240

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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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High School High School Essay Fairness 158

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. in the preamble of the U.S.

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 205

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. Do you wish your parents would ask you more questions about your day, or fewer questions? Should students be required to take a music or art class? Describe the perfect summer.

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

By design, CTE programs consider questions that are relevant to this gap. I think about these questions each day as I prepare my students to pursue a career in education, and over the years, I’ve found that incorporating CTE skills into teaching helps students have a deeper learning experience.

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High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 211

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

This strategy challenges them to generate an inquiry question they want to explore and answer. Once they have their high-interest inquiry question, they can use the 5Es inquiry cycle engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluateto work through their investigation. They can do this on their own or with the help of AI!

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Testing Learning Critical Thinking Essay 195

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo is still in its pilot phase but is designed to guide students as they progress through lessons and ask questions like a human tutor would, according to Khan Academy spokesperson Barb Kunz. District leaders also developed plans in science and English language arts that focus on new approaches to learning to boost student achievement.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 262

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. There were also a number of online communities where Python users could post excerpts of code and answer each other’s questions.

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Science Education Learning Essay 218

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Here are seven I use during the pre-Thanksgiving season: ASCII Art Comics Holiday Widget Team Challenge Thanksgiving Poll Thinking Games Themed ASCII Art Time required: Less than one class ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards.

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

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. These values may show up embedded into the logic of questions, as well as on expectations of speed of completion.

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Education Testing Feedback English 296

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 174

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 208

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience. Once teachers choose a lesson, the program provides a six-step process to help students analyze the readings and produce a cohesive essay.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 127

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. Have them show you how they’re writing and ask them questions: ‘Why are you writing that way?’ It’s a process.

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

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. They can create a video of their project, explaining what they did.

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Failure Art Essay Math 166

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

For example, a philosophy professor at University of Notre Dame designed an introductory course that draws on “ interactive digital essays ” published on mobile-friendly web pages attached to the online syllabus, reports Inside Higher Ed. LA schools did indeed close. For example, from 9 a.m.

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Distance Learning Syllabus Internet Learning 212

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Here are seven I use during the pre-holiday season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. or another that you prefer.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Year by year, these adults have gathered threads of wisdom, which the university now invites them to weave into the great tapestry of the liberal arts. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dark The professor explains the next assignment for the course. She was preparing to audition for a performing arts scholarship.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 178

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

What a good question. Because everything was graded complete/incomplete, three-sentence reading responses held the same weight as thousand-word essays, making it unclear how much time I expected them to spend on a given assignment. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, 2024, [link]. Gannon, Kevin.

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 70

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

Their goal is answering the age-old question: What’s a college degree really worth? We want to help answer this question, ‘Is college worth it?” —Sue We want to help answer this question, ‘Is college worth it?’” Foundation officials said that the group will not produce rankings of colleges.

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Essay Evaluation Questions Art 156

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

“Apply Genius answers any question you have about college admissions, personalized for you, giving you access to the same admissions secrets that the wealthiest applicants pay $10,000 or more for,” said Michael Pankowski, a Harvard graduate and co-founder of Apply Genius.

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

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. 1 Look one level deeper, however, and the way schools use their LMSs will undergo shifts that have big implications for whether their edtech has a transformative impact.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 239

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I teach middle school English Language Arts at St. But over time I’ve found many middle schoolers are not equipped to critique an essay that meets the expectations of the assignment. Photo: Karen McDonald) To break the ice, I responded to the question myself, giving students sample language that they could use.

Culture 167

Culture Feedback Writing Assignments 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. It also helps break down the barrier between critical and creative thinking.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 113

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

To stimulate peer-to-peer interaction, each course at Western Governors offers students a chat function where they post questions and where faculty and other students respond. Performance assessment varies, with students submitting essays, videos or presentations to demonstrate they’ve learned the material.

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Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 177

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

He passed away the other day, and you can read an essay looking back at his life and work that we published at EdSurge. There are a lot of colleges—liberal arts colleges and smaller colleges—that have always had that focus. But I don’t know that I have a great answer to the question “is it enough?”

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Education History Art Essay 207

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. A picture is worth 1000 words: Video and multimedia writing While scripts and interview questions form the foundation for multimedia projects, the real communication going on here is with the images themselves.

Writing 167

Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

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. 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.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 130

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Below, we have curated some of their responses to this question, in particular: What is the most meaningful way a student, parent or school administrator could show their appreciation for you—even from afar? Expressing oneself in the digital medium can present a challenge, but even a Padlet that students create for teachers would be so cool!”

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Essay 158

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. There were also a number of online communities where Python users could post excerpts of code and answer each other’s questions.

Science 148

Science Education Learning Essay 148

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

When I left the classroom in 2017 for a job as an events curator for a community arts organization, it was the middle of spring semester during my seventh year as a teacher. We held Socratic seminars rooted in essays by Amy Tan and Daniel José Older. They had so many questions and stories to share on these topics.

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Culture Teachers Schools Syllabus 166