Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

What is your favorite way to communicate with friends? 19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school. Use them to begin longer narrative essays, begin class discussions, or introduce elements of fiction in your language arts class.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

How to know if a student uses AI to cheat on written assignments? More than that: If students often ask ChatGPT to generate essays or make those essays longer , their writing and communication skills will suffer. use ChatGPT for essay and research paper writing. ChatGPT can help brainstorm topic ideas for an essay.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Academic Integrity 288

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They may express and communicate what they know or can do in different ways. You can allow them to write an argumentative essay, 2) prepare and engage in a live debate with a classmate, or 3) record an argumentative speech. argumentative essay, live debate, or recorded speech).

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Blended Learning Essay Feedback Writing 521

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Then there’s the sudden temptation of ChatGPT and other new AI tools, which can make cheating on assignments easy and often undetectable. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. Some students don’t understand how important assignments are, Beckett says.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 199

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 318

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

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Understanding that not all students express or communicate their understanding in the same way is crucial. By offering meaningful choices, we can ensure that every student has the opportunity to successfully apply and communicate their learning, accommodating their unique strengths and preferences.

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History Physical Education Art Essay 382

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested?

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Assignments Grades Feedback Evaluation 166

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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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 Languages 276

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 322

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 337

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

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 288

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.”

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 139

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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Language Languages Communication English 129

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 98

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 344

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.

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Plagiarism Teachers Feedback Essay 246

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

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 294

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 183

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.

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Writing Instructors Essay English 205

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.

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Fairness Testing Grades Essay 197

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.

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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.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

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 Languages Language 181

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 205

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 198

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 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.

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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 Languages 164

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.

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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.

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165