Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free.

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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 145

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 29, 2024

From the three-paragraph essay to one that lives up to the purpose of essays is a big leap both scholastically and skills-wise. Here, we delve into practical tips and strategies to transform your writing from good to great, ensuring your essays are clear, compelling, and academically rigorous.

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Essay Writing Skills Plagiarism 158

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

It’s especially true when it comes to writing assignments: With poor writing skills, students can’t deal with essays and other homework the way they need to get a good grade. Writing is essential for professional and long-distance communication. Above-average writing skills are a must here to succeed.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 290

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

The overall quality of students’ work also suffers when they do not have the time and space needed to fully engage with academic tasks or produce artifacts to express and communicate their learning. The depth and breadth of research can vary greatly among students, benefiting from a flexible timeline.

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Teachers Art Feedback Writing 481

eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Because the tool can assist with assignments like generating essays from prompts, students quickly integrated these technologies into the classroom. These are just a few examples of the biases present in current AI use in education, but they already raise alarms.

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Motivation Essay Learning Beliefs 333

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators can even tap student enthusiasm for new technology by assigning–and assessing student learning using–multimedia projects. Secret 1: Multimedia assignments. These types of assignments are also harder to farm out to AI! Motivate students to act by incorporating action planning into assignments.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 344

eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Every month, my Advanced English teacher, Mr. Johnson, assigned our class one of the classics of English literature and expected us to demonstrate what we had learned with an accompanying essay. Consequently, I found myself in a pressure cooker each month, drafting essays in the final days and hours before they were due.

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Writing Failure Essay English 302

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Moving from essential to “renewable” assignments means that the students see the tasks as sufficiently meaningful to be kept and even passed on to others. What a waste!

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Assignments Motivation Science Study 131

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The university has created a way for automated software to give students in large STEM courses feedback on their writing in cases where professors don’t have time to grade hundreds of essays. We always have written exams, but it never hurts to have students communicate more through writing.”

Essay 142

Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 142

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Communication as a student in a foreign land depends heavily on knowledge of the language. The Ask a Tech Teacher international team has a few broader issues to think about when considering what barriers face students in foreign lands: Language: The Biggest Communication Barrier for Foreign Students? Ive been on the same page also.

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Languages Language Communication English 133

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For instance, 29 percent of students said: “Let me do assignments on topics that interest me if they are relevant to what we are learning.” They might write an essay, compile a slideshow presentation, or create a video, for instance. Choice in product lets students decide how to show what they’ve learned.

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free.

Essay 98

Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Providing comprehensive and skill-aligned feedback on student essays is time-consuming, and educators often wish they could offer more support during a student’s writing process. Early adopters of Writable ’s AI-powered tools have reported significant timesaving benefits that extend their capacity as teachers.

Plagiarism 246

Plagiarism Teachers Feedback Essay 246

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

This process pushes students to engage with skills like critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, empathy, and problem-solving. This is a standalone design thinking assignment where students are tasked to learn about or discover a need or issue within our local community by talking with family, friends, or other adults.

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Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 307

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

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Assignments History Art Ethics 124

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Analytical Essay + Book Promo/Trailer Video There are many blog posts out there encouraging teachers to choose assignments other than essays. But it is hard to argue that the communication skills that students practice in the course of writing are not essential.

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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing centers on college campuses have been around for more than 100 years , and they’re both a resource for students doing assignments and a symbol of the importance in higher education of learning to express yourself in text. Johnson and her team train their tutors to teach students about how AI can be useful in the writing process.

Writing 206

Writing Instructors Essay English 206

eSchool News

JULY 5, 2018

Too often when teachers say they are teaching writing, they mean that they are assigning writing work to their students, but they aren’t actually helping students master the fundamentals. Overall, the goal is to break down writing into its essential elements, giving students the opportunity to master them before drafting essays and reports.

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Essay Writing Assignments Attention 169

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Using technology to score essays is nothing new. Still, some educators and parents alike felt blindsided by the news about auto-grading essays for K-12 students. Rather, the natural language processing program was trained using 3,000 written responses submitted during past tests and has parameters it will use to assign scores.

Fairness 198

Fairness Testing Grades Essay 198

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence , 100118.

Communication 135

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

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. How to help your students evolve from analog to digital writers Start with simple assignments that are an easy transition from what you and your students are already familiar with. engagement and passion.

Writing 167

Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

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. So as teachers are learning to use generative AI tools themselves, they’re also wrestling with when and how to communicate what they’re trying. Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? Solution for teachers : Teachers can foster a culture of integrity by establishing trust and open communication. written essays or multimedia presentations)–can help students feel more invested.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 206

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Privacy legislation would require more communication between districts, parents. The homework assignments, essays, musings and instant messages today’s students are tapping into educational websites and applications would be subject to new data privacy standards under legislation introduced today in Harrisburg. Dan Miller, D-Mt.

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Students Essay Assignments Communication 191

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Machado was nominated by the Bilingual Department Chairperson Brian Donovan who submitted an essay describing how Machado helps his students. Machado had the student tell the story of the journey through an assignment and took the story to a local dentist’s office where his wife worked as a dental assistant. About Rosetta Stone.

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Essay English Language Languages 162

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2021

Instead of tests and essays, competency-based education assigns students projects inspired by “real-world” scenarios drawn directly from work environments, Trent says. One benefit of this approach is that it “tends to be extremely engaging and relevant” for students, Trent says.

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Essay Coaching Study Accessibility 200

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence , 100118.

Communication 111

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

It deemphasizes the role of essay writing and communication—the stuff that in fact is probably more valuable for the majority of students. Focus on frequent low-stakes writing assignments rather than occasional high stakes writing assignments like term papers. These are all things that are foreign in a lot of classrooms.

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Achievement Writing Essay Language 165

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

That year, my students would learn how to listen actively, communicate clearly, and control outbursts. You’re communicating, collaborating, managing yourself, the list goes on. complete and submit the assignment on time), you can add a self-management rubric row. Near the end of the semester, we held a formal debate.

Teaching 168

Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Hyler has co-authored two books including “ From Texting to Teaching: Grammar Instruction in a Digital Age ,” and has made it his mission to immerse himself in the platforms, rules of conduct and digital argot that comprise the communication habits of a generation where efficiency, humor and graphic media are given priority over formal grammar.

Writing 165

Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Since teachers grade so many papers and assignments, many educators see that as an unacceptable level of error. For some assignments, she has asked students to install an extension for their web browser called Revision History and then grant her access.

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Instructors History English Writing 203

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

To prepare students for the changing job market, schools need to focus even more attention on teaching higher-level thinking skills that can’t be automated—creativity, critical thinking, creative problem-solving and communication. Adobe has created a new set of resources and developed new edtech integrations.

Skills 212

Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

Whether students curate a playlist of five songs or build a whole album to reflect on their learning, theyre thinking critically about how to synthesize content and communicate understanding in a creative way. #4 In science, Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash might symbolize tectonic plate movement and volcanic activity.

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Testing Learning Critical Thinking Essay 195

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

We encourage our customers to use the work we provide as a guide,” says Avery Morgan, a spokesperson for EduBirdie, which advertises itself as a “professional essay writing service.” But the marketing language on these sites boast of providing papers tailor made for an assignment, and promise to keep the communication with customers secret.

Essay 168

Essay Writing Academic Integrity Students 168

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan provided strategies and resources for teachers to use in their classrooms, and through this assignment, he learned a variety of skills including how to design compelling professional learning opportunities, how to find and evaluate sources and how to communicate his findings clearly to an audience.

High School 211

High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 211

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 9, 2020

Many misconceptions circle around plagiarism checkers, but in reality, plagiarism checkers improve the cooperation, communication, and collaboration between educators and students. On top of that, when all assignments equally go through a plagiarism check, the competition becomes fair again. Conclusion.

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Plagiarism Academic Integrity Students Assignments 156

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Communicate major assignments and assessments in advance and give students opportunities to plan their time and effort. In a classroom focused on avoiding errors and completing tasks, students may see the purpose of a math assignment as completing items 1-17 without any errors so it can be checked and graded.

Academic Integrity 88

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88