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. It might seem counterintuitive that the same technology threatening to hinder student learning might be used to boost it.

Essay 205

Essay Social Studies Education Critical Thinking 205

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

With the time it takes to score and give feedback on student work deterring many writing teachers from assigning lengthier writing tasks, and with the long turnaround time most students wait to receive grades and feedback, there is significant timesaving and learning potential in an AI helping grade student work.

Grades 184

Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 184

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing. They scored ChatGPT’s work using the same College Board rubric their essays were evaluated against.

Essay 216

Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 216

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like.

Assignments 101

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 101

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. As a teacher coach, I’m not encouraging teachers to throw out the practice of assigning, reading, giving feedback on and correcting essays.

Essay 167

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.

Writing 206

Writing Instructors Essay English 206

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

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. She’s spent much of her career thinking about how education technology and assessments can be improved for bilingual children.

Fairness 197

Fairness Testing Grades Essay 197

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

. — Tony DePrato “In my eighteen years of working in education … I’ve never encountered a platform that requires such a bizarre consent letter,” wrote Tony DePrato, chief information officer at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Mississippi, in an essay earlier this year.

Academic Integrity 195

Academic Integrity Assignments Essay Schools 195

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2015

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. Privacy legislation would require more communication between districts, parents. Dan Miller, D-Mt.

Students 196

Students Essay Assignments Communication 196

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation. Can you tell me how you approached this assignment? That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay. That helped me finish that part of the essay. and Che Guevara.

Essay 166

Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 166

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2024

When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments — that they’d click a button on a chatbot instead of doing the thinking involved in responding to an essay prompt themselves.

Writing 208

Writing Teaching Essay Languages 208

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. If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? Should they disclose that to students?

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Just as the technological revolution of the printing press democratized the authorship and distribution of books, so too does social media and the internet allow for more voices to be heard and for a wide variety of authors—including our students—to connect with audiences around the world.

Writing 167

Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

With all the changes and challenges over the last year, one takeaway I keep reflecting on is how essential education technology has become to learning—and how quickly this transition occurred. I have long believed that edtech has the power to open up opportunities for students and change how educators teach.

Skills 212

Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

As trusted mentors and professional development leaders, they guide teachers in implementing AI tools thoughtfully, ensuring that technology enhances student learning while aligning with pedagogical best practices. They encourage teachers and students to utilize AI for brainstorming, outlining essays, and improving writing mechanics.

Coaching 200

Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 200

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Professors may draw on textbooks like “ Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities ” and also on eclectic “texts” from a variety of media, such as the art websites of Rafaël Rozendaal, the interactive explanatory projects of Nicky Case and the visual essays published by The Pudding.

Art 213

Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 213

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The head and the heart are connected, and our schools, curriculum, and education technology should reflect this. The head and the heart are connected, and our schools, curriculum, and education technology should reflect this. complete and submit the assignment on time), you can add a self-management rubric row.

Teaching 168

Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 168

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

He was pointing to the assignment and explaining the directions quietly to the new student. The skills I want my students to leave the classroom with are not necessarily how to identify the eight parts of speech, analyze Shakespeare, or write a seven-paragraph argumentative essay. The new student shook his head.

Skills 218

Skills Teaching Essay Students 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

I’ve seen two major kinds of AI-based education tools: those that operate by themselves and are fully automated, and those that assist and gradually learn from teachers, students, and administrators as they use the products. There’s a difference between grading 30 essays overnight and doing the same over the course of a weekend.

Essay 131

Essay Evaluation Intelligence Plagiarism 131

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.” Education is a privilege and personal growth comes from learning through experience.” The sales pitch is all about doing the work of students for them.

Essay 171

Essay Writing Academic Integrity Students 171

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

The assignments he cared to turn in demonstrated his clear lack of interest in the class subject matter as well as a real gap in his writing ability. In the case of writing, students can love their topic but have no idea how to structure a thoughtful essay around it.

Essay 113

Essay Writing Assignments Learning Styles 113

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo, powered by ChatGPT technology, includes features meant to help students work through math and science problems, analyze text, chat with historical figures, navigate college admissions, and revise essays, among other features. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction.

Schools 267

Schools Math Testing Intelligence 267

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

A misguided reward system can push ambitious, high-performing high school students toward cheating in the belief that their plagiarized essays can earn better grades. This creates an unhealthy, competitive environment which actually promotes cheating by shifting the focus from education to grades. Make your deadlines reasonable.

Plagiarism 124

Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 124

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.

Essay 200

Essay Coaching Study Accessibility 200

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

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. Effort was also a strength — he gave every assignment his all. With assistance, he was able to produce a five-paragraph essay.

Accessibility 172

Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 172

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.

Instructors 205

Instructors History English Writing 205

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.

Writing 165

Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

We need low-stakes, shareable writing assignments to break the ice, so I use micro-writing exercises as often as possible. These assignments are efficient and have many academic benefits. In my classes, micro-writing assignments help students develop and strengthen their identities.

Writing 168

Writing Assignments English Essay 168

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

Classes don’t start and end according to an academic calendar, but begin when a student clicks “start course” and gets assigned a faculty member. On average, instructors are assigned 230 students at a time--a big change from the 20 or 30 I was used to at NYU and Stevens. Southern New Hampshire’s course completion rate is 90 percent.

Teaching 176

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 176

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

One solution, says Garcia, is for professors to give “more authentic” assignments, like project-based work and other things that students would be more likely to see in a professional environment. One key to her approach is to set objective measures for each possible grade a student can get on the assignment (or it can be done pass/fail).

Testing 158

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 158

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke.

Essay 167

Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. And if that homework involves writing assignments, the hours add up fast. Checking student work for possible plagiarism, specifically, has become a time consuming burden for many educators.

Plagiarism 167

Plagiarism Teachers Writing Assignments 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

When I began talking to education companies, it was clear that the emphasis was on measuring student learning. It deemphasizes the role of essay writing and communication—the stuff that in fact is probably more valuable for the majority of students. They've gone back and reread their essays, they've thought about their work.

Achievement 165

Achievement Writing Essay Language 165

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Students wrote essays arguing whether the bot furthered their understanding of his character or if the bot strayed so far from the book that it was no longer useful. The essays were fascinating. Some students followed my rubric, but never seemed to think of HoldenAI as anything more than a robot in a school assignment.

Evaluation 212

Evaluation Essay Students Questions 212

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

John Warner’s forthcoming book, Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities , addresses this question directly. I go back to trying to decide what kind of thinking I'm trying to privilege with the assignment and then helping students get started on that path.”

Writing 158

Writing Skills Teaching Essay 158

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Educators and administrators across the country took the blank slate created by the absence of a playbook as an opportunity to lean into their social and emotional learning (SEL) training, think flexibly and evolve their practice—in the interest of all their students. In a recent essay, Drs. Wanless and Tia N.

Special Education 195

Special Education Disabilities Education Distance Learning 195