Assignments Culture Essay 
eSchool News
MAY 12, 2025
What began as a simple classroom project to encourage reading evolved into a movement that amplified student voices, built confidence, and connected learners across cultures. The assignment? Farah’s choice reflected pride in her cultural identity, and her delivery was clear, persuasive, and engaging.
Faculty Focus
JULY 8, 2025
We recognize we need to update assignments to promote academic integrity in an AI age, yet many of us feel unprepared to do so. We can provide the guidance students want, embed analysis and evaluation into our assignments to get at that all-important critical thinking, and nudge students toward integrity. By embracing transparency.
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eSchool News
JULY 4, 2025
It’s cultural–and systemic. student (full disclosure–she’s my granddaughter) said, “On a lot of my assignments I do use AI even though it’s not allowed. by contrast, lacks a national AI curriculum, and remains mired in debate about whether students should even use ChatGPT to write essays. trails its global peers.
Faculty Focus
JULY 8, 2025
We recognize we need to update assignments to promote academic integrity in an AI age, yet many of us feel unprepared to do so. We can provide the guidance students want, embed analysis and evaluation into our assignments to get at that all-important critical thinking, and nudge students toward integrity. By embracing transparency.
Cal Matters
JUNE 26, 2025
Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it. That detector first became popular among professors when the internet made it easy for students to copy and paste information from websites into their assignments.
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.
Faculty Focus
JULY 10, 2025
But what we see in higher education—missed assignments, low engagement, quiet classrooms—isn’t always a motivation issue. I also let students revise one major assignment. I once had a student create a narrated photo essay instead of a traditional paper—it was powerful, reflective, and demonstrated full mastery.
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