eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. Instead of banning AI, educators can design assignments that leverage these tools. Define when and how it’s appropriate, fostering a culture of integrity.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 331

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. Learning a Language: Acquiring a new language involves mastering vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and cultural nuances.

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Teachers Art Feedback Writing 481

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 23, 2024

Contest winners get to participate in behind-the-scenes experiences at iconic American historical and cultural sites as part of America’s Field Trip. I see the difference having the freedom to be creative for an assignment has on students when they aren’t thinking about it impacting their GPA.

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Students History Essay High School 339

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Peer editing here usually consists of working with partners, swapping writing assignments and making suggestions. But over time I’ve found many middle schoolers are not equipped to critique an essay that meets the expectations of the assignment. I also grapple with the cultural obsession with technology.

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Culture Feedback Writing Assignments 167

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 358

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s just more complex and time consuming, he says, to gauge how much a student has learned about, say, how to weigh two competing views of a historical event in an essay assignment. But Cote saw that now an AI chatbot can be trained on the same rubric to instantly give the same kind of feedback. “Now

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Essay Social Studies Education Critical Thinking 205

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Driven in part by the educational imperative to minimize student testing, what better solution than a test already heavily vetted as being inclusive and cross-cultural that many students are familiar with. In this article, I’ll focus on preparation for the SAT essay portion. use academic-specific vocabulary whenever possible.

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Essay Mobile Devices Exams Writing 98

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. My goal was to change the climate and culture in my classroom to help students feel more comfortable with trying, failing, and, most importantly, improving. Related: 4 things you should know about digital portfolios.

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Essay Failure Writing Students 180

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 335

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 203

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

Each assignment has 1-10 points, with a total of 100 points. In my more recent students evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations at the beginning of the semester. I especially wanted students to understand that the final assignment was anything but.

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 70

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 206

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

He was pointing to the assignment and explaining the directions quietly to the new student. Realizing this truth has led me to rethink how I define culturally sustaining pedagogy. The ways and means of learning in the classroom should mirror the culture and community of the students in it. The new student shook his head.

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Skills Teaching Essay Students 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Its new minor program, called “Code as a Liberal Art,” treats computer science as a tool not just for career preparation, but for creative expression, cultural criticism and “civic awareness for understanding an increasingly computational society,” says Todd Anderson, assistant professor of code and liberal arts at the institution.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 213

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. At colleges and universities, there's a culture of professors grabbing materials from the web without always citing them. Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

New people, culture, and most importantly, a new language! I understand that speaking, note-making, and working on assignments in another language is quite hectic. Secondly, their assignment quality is frailer due to their frail language strength, especially during dissertation writing. Ive been on the same page also.

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Language Languages Communication English 133

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In addition, many students are using AI to write coursework and essays, which has caused a lot of outrage. Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. This helps students move through material at their own pace, whether faster or slower.

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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 183

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. “So let’s mix them together and talk about them both.” It’s a process. It does not happen overnight,” Hyler says.

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

By assigning digital projects like podcasts, infographics, and video essays, educators empower students to fully express themselves with new media and methods that students today find most familiar and relevant to their lives. Adobe has created a new set of resources and developed new edtech integrations.

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It Starts in the Community I grew up in northeast Denver — a place rich in Black history and culture where the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education enacted the Black Excellence Resolution. This essay is a call to action, a reflection of my journey and an invitation to all who believe in the transformative power of math education.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

Before there were podcasts, there was pirate radio , rogue broadcasters flinging unusual sounds over borders and adding new music to cultures. First, learners can listen to podcasts and audiobooks as a way to fit assignments into their busy days, since they can multitask while doing housework, traveling, walking a dog, etc.

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Essay Teaching History Learning 123

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The essays start off sardonically but become increasingly earnest and reflective. Read more from Jeff here. It comes out in all sorts of ways.

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Reading Essay Instructors Culture 147

Gaggle Speaks

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In our uber-socialized culture, students are used to the notion of being connected at all times. With Office 365, this means students can add thoughts to an essay draft or make changes to a PowerPoint slide at the very moment a new idea comes to them. We’ve already established that just about everything in our culture is on the go.

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Essay Learning Students Instructors 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture.

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Thinking Games.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

This is not a new idea, but logistically and culturally it still raised challenges and stirred reactions. Things are bit trickier given our school’s culture. It takes time to change culture and shift mindset, but we are gradually seeing a difference. Can we have one more essay practice?”

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Grades Essay Language Languages 129

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

9% of writing assignments in grades six to eight include long form writing. Source: Checking In: Do Classrooms Assignments Reflect Today’s Standards? How many kids want to write yet another essay on whether the cafeteria should serve chocolate milk? by The Education Trust, 2015. So what can we do?

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Writing Teaching Education Feedback 156

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. Ma and Wang (2016) compared essays written in English by British and American students to essays written in English by Cantonese students.

Essay 126

Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

Other tools do the job as well, and some course-management systems allow students to submit videos, audio or text for any assignment. The traditional academic essay is not going anywhere, neither are threaded text discussions in a course management system," she says. I rarely read the whole thing.”

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Instructors Discussions Course Evaluations Writing 151

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We took a holistic approach to the question of how to cultivate the development of social and emotional competencies, and whether successfully integrating and building a culture around SEL into the school really matters. Here’s what we found: SEL is for teachers, too. SEL lesson for grades 6-8. Source: Rethink Ed; watch on YouTube here.

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Teachers Exams Schools Students 165

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? For the most part, these concerns are rooted in a cultural orientation that frames knowledge as property. For the most part, these concerns are rooted in a cultural orientation that frames knowledge as property. These concerns are not new.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? For the most part, these concerns are rooted in a cultural orientation that frames knowledge as property. For the most part, these concerns are rooted in a cultural orientation that frames knowledge as property. These concerns are not new.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. Makerspaces, or library media centers that encourage collaboration and support student invention, are on the rise across the United States.

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Schools Language Languages Reading 246

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. Ma and Wang (2016) compared essays written in English by British and American students to essays written in English by Cantonese students.

Essay 111

Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

Instead of getting 125 essays written in the exact same style with the same details, I now get unique historical narratives, rich with sensory experiences and observations made with their own eyes. Based on individual experience level, students assigned themselves to city blocks I had prepared and built out the city.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Essay Discussions 168

k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

Rethinking Cultural Identity in the Era of K12 online education In a traditional classroom, culture is everywhere. But what happens to that rich cultural backdrop when school moves online? The Cultural Ecosystem of Traditional Schools Physical schools have always served dual purposes. Lessons are compressed.

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Culture Schools Language Languages 52