Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

That’s when she knows students are using an artificial intelligence tool to write an answer. “I I really think that they have become so accustomed to it, they lack confidence in their own writing,” Distefano, who teaches in Texas, says. “In To get a student to write is challenging, but the more we do it, the better we get.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. Sure, the skills of writing may have been practiced, but so what? To what end?

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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 doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

I've thought about opening it up widely—write a historical novelette (using primary sources, of course), create a sculpture, write a song—but, again, I have no idea how to grade something like that, considering the wide range of talent that my students likely will have. Have students turn in a reflection at the end.

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Assignments Grades History Ethics 191

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. Kaufer and Ishizaki were uniquely positioned.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As educators seek innovative methods to engage students and enhance the learning experience, artificial intelligence (AI) is proving to be an invaluable asset. Salas Salcedo: Thankfully, with Project Topeka, AI was so seamlessly integrated into the program that it just felt like a natural step in the writing process.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

If students are working on a formal writing assignment or project, teachers can schedule 5-minute feedback sessions with individual students. They were able to focus on one comment at a time as they were working on revising their writing. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology , 31(1).

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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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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Despite the challenges associated with this moment in education, technology is rapidly evolving to allow students more opportunities to engage in social learning spaces online. So, it makes sense that teachers are frustrated when they feel like students are not engaging. for a unit or text.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. A recent survey of 1,000 K-12 teachers found that 61 percent predicted that ChatGPT will have “legitimate educational uses that we cannot ignore.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

One student, Johnny, is a talented artist but reads and writes well below grade level. His catchphrase is “Oh, writing isn’t my thing.” We need low-stakes, shareable writing assignments to break the ice, so I use micro-writing exercises as often as possible. A quick scan of the room makes it easy to understand why.

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Writing Assignments English Essay 168

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Seventeen years into her career, she’s devised decidedly innovative answers to that question, and many of them involve technology. With Immersive Reader, they go back day after day, and then they get mad at you when the project is over because they want more time to add to their writing. They want to know you can read their writing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The internet is awash in surveys touting the inseparable connection between kids and technology. I think students are reading and writing more than ever. Is it quality writing? I think students are reading and writing more than ever,” says Jeremy Hyler, an eighth-grade English teacher at Fulton Middle School in Michigan. “Is

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Whether text, video or something else entirely, each of these mediums encompasses a form of writing. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. engagement and passion.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators can even tap student enthusiasm for new technology by assigning–and assessing student learning using–multimedia projects. Underlying the 5 steps below are 2 “secrets,” which will come as no surprise to today’s educators. Secret 1: Multimedia assignments. Does this all sound far-fetched?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

” Looking closer at North Carolina, Pitt County Schools adopted a color-coded AI use system to help students determine if their use of AI tools is acceptable, or if a given assignment is best completed in an AI-free manner.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

“I love teaching and helping kids grow,” she added, “but I hate that writing instruction takes up hours and hours of my life.” A 2016 study of 3rd to 8th grade educators found that only 55% of teachers said they enjoy teaching writing. 9% of writing assignments in grades six to eight include long form writing.

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Writing Teaching Education Feedback 153

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

“Interactive curriculum is the next wave” of opportunities in the education market, says Tim Brady, a partner at Y Combinator, in an interview with EdSurge. Brady has now overseen 11 cohorts of education technology startups over the past seven years. Photo Credit: Tony Wan Repl.it San Francisco-based Repl.it

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The following is the first full installment of the new EdSurge advice column about teaching in higher education. How can I best support students with very poor writing skills when the class is not one specifically focused on writing? Inoue, director of the writing center at the U.of The engine of learning is labor."

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

He has steered the course ever since, each spring when he takes breaks from writing books or pieces for The New Yorker, and it has become legendary in journalism circles. 4: On the Writing Process , and I was eager to talk to him about his craftsmanship as a teacher. McPhee lays out his course in his latest book, Draft No.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2023

Pressto’s unique capabilities and innovative approach resulted in early accolades for the beta version, including an honorable mention in the Education Category of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards. We’ve seen students who lacked the motivation to write become passionate about the craft.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I attached three sheets of paper to their survey and asked my students to write three letters: a letter to me, a letter to themselves on the first day of school and a letter to the student who would sit in their seat for the upcoming school year. So in addition to my typical set of survey questions, I made a crucial change.

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Assignments Students Feedback Grades 159

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? These are totally different things,” he says. “As

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology. Secretaries of Education, from both Democratic and Republican administrations. The nation must act with urgency and purpose to ensure all students have access to high quality online learning opportunities,” they write.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. This creates a new case study each time students enter the prompt the educator assigns into a GenAI tool. 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., What is GenAI?

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

I’m a former educator in the process of writing my dissertation for my Doctorate of Education, as part of a part-time program while working a full-time job at Google. Oftentimes, when it comes to technology and new innovations, folks move to a “good” or “bad” binary. Upon reading it, I took a pause. So how can that work?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing. Since teachers grade so many papers and assignments, many educators see that as an unacceptable level of error.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. This creates a new case study each time students enter the prompt the educator assigns into a GenAI tool. 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., What is GenAI?

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 113

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To Derek Newton, a journalist who writes a newsletter about academic integrity , the policy seems like an effort by OpenAI to dodge concerns that many students use ChatGPT to cheat on assignments. “It It seems like their only reference to academic integrity is buried under a parental consent clause,” he told EdSurge. “It

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Academic Integrity Assignments Essay Schools 191

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2017

[Editor’s Note: At Bett , one of the largest education technology conferences in the world, Google is announcing a new line of Chromebooks for education. These Chromebooks use an input prediction model—built using Google’s machine learning—to ensure writing is extremely responsive and low lag.

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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.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 204

eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Filmmaking engages students visually, auditorily, and kinesthetically, creating a multisensory educational experience. This approach allows students to express themselves through multiple channels rather than relying solely on traditional writing skills. Online brainstorming platforms benefit project-based learning initiatives.

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Teaching Methods Interactive Learning Assignments Participation 176

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

They seek opportunities and time to illustrate scientific and social concepts with a real world understanding and have students apply their knowledge and express their understanding through writing. Solution: District leaders must conduct a review of their instructional technology portfolio at least once every three years.

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Teachers Writing Feedback Assignments 166

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Attention spans are shorter for younger students than their older peers, who also need less parental involvement to complete assignments. To that end, a handful of state boards of education have issued a patchwork of guidance in their digital learning plans, specifying the number of hours of schoolwork appropriate for each grade level.

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