Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

Explore the benefits and drawbacks of AI in essay writing, including its impact on student learning. AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them? AI’s influence in essay writing is growing, highlighting both advantages and significant issues.

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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. Think of SAT requiring essay writing or IELTS and TOEFL measuring writing abilities. Above-average writing skills are a must here to succeed.

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Writing Skills Essay Languages 286

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 332

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2021

It sounds at first like a typical assignment for a high school English class. Students at Belmont Hill School are asked to think of someone they encounter in their daily lives who might need a financial boost and record a short video essay about them and why they’re important in their lives.

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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. For instance, students could compare human-written essays with AI-generated ones to discuss tone, bias, and effectiveness.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 332

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. For example, one of our high schoolers, James, isn’t doing his assignments in World History class. In math, James could be tasked to analyze basketball stats, or in English, he could write an essay on his favorite athlete.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. Students can create their own animations to transform their assignments into engaging classroom presentations. The company is fully committed to using AI for good.

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Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 334

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. Each fellow is assigned to a group of students and is available to help them with the revision process.”

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 136

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This lesson is part of the Constitution unit and is available in English and Spanish with several integration options, so the material can be adapted to whatever your classroom needs may be. 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

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.” In an English class, for instance, teachers might give students a list of books relating to a certain theme and let students choose which book to read.

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

eSchool News

MAY 8, 2017

That’s 150 essays they would have to read and respond to for every writing assignment they give. Using Revision Assistant has allowed South Kitsap teachers in all disciplines to give students more frequent writing assignments, without adding more work to their already-full plates. …with Groundbreaking Technology.

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Writing Technology Essay Feedback 188

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While the fears of using AI to cheat aren’t unfounded, how many educators have actually tried writing an essay using just AI? Last spring, a high school English teacher challenged her students: “Artificial intelligence can do any of your class assignments,” she told them flatly. How can AI be used in teaching?

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Ethics Education Internet Essay 303

eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

As the Curriculum Specialist with Vancouver Public Schools, I oversee Secondary English Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Running Start, and College in the High Schools. Close reading has become essential for all assignments, and many teachers have used claim-based essays based on each reading as formative assessments.

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Essay Education Blended Learning English 211

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. After assigning a “standard” written essay based on materials that we were reading in class, I would have students read their essays at the front of the class while I recorded them.

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Essay Failure Writing Students 192

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For students attending college, there is a college essay review tool, a college application management, and a scholarship search. Paper’s multilingual academic support is available in English, Spanish, French, and Mandarin. Paper supports over three million students at over 300 unique school districts in more than 40 U.S.

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Secondary Education Essay High School High School 291

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. So where does AI leave the writing center?

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Writing Instructors Essay English 200

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). Each won $5,000 grants as well as the schoolwide semester’s subscription to Rosetta Stone English. I have given my students over 10,000 books.”

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Essay English Languages Language 177

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.

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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

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.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 215

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 189

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

How AI supports metacognition: Sauls story Saul, a grade 10 student at the intermediate proficiency level, speaks Spanish and is navigating the challenge of learning academic English while excelling in his coursework. Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 169

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Many educators who use the approach, which is often called process tracking, do so as an alternative to running student work through AI detectors, which are prone to falsely accusing students , especially those who dont speak English as their first language.

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Instructors History English Writing 198

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.

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Writing Teaching Essay Languages 204

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. It is also designed to help teachers create instructions for assignments and review student performance.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 271

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. Anderson says.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 211

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

Angel, a sophomore, has a homework assignment that’s due at midnight, and this is the only way he’s able to turn it in. When we have assignments, such as typed essays, I am not able to work on the assignment at home. Better internet would help tremendously in our community,” Angel said.

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Internet Essay Assignments English 148

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

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

I understand that speaking, note-making, and working on assignments in another language is quite hectic. This is a genuine issue for students with non-English backgrounds mainly. Firstly, they cannot participate freely in project groups with native English speakers. But you must overcome the language barrier as soon as possible.

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Language Languages Communication English 134

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan provided strategies and resources for teachers to use in their classrooms, and through this assignment, he learned a variety of skills including how to design compelling professional learning opportunities, how to find and evaluate sources and how to communicate his findings clearly to an audience.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. 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.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 164

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Students in my freshman English class have incredible stories to tell, but they aren't always eager to share them. two years ago and has been developing his English language skills over time, but is repeating the course after struggling through it last year—and his confidence is shattered.

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Writing Assignments English Essay 168

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

I went to a liberal arts college and spent most of my undergrad years not focusing particularly closely on the computer science coursework, but instead focusing on different areas of political science, of English. Focus on frequent low-stakes writing assignments rather than occasional high stakes writing assignments like term papers.

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Achievement Writing Essay Languages 164

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school. Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. Describe the perfect summer.

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

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.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

5 Reflect on Growth Over Time Invite students to reflect on their progress by comparing two similar assignments or products from different points in the school year. This side-by-side analysis helps them see evidence of growth and build a stronger sense of ownership over their learning journey.

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Testing Learning Critical Thinking Essay 195

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

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 Of course, there’s still a place for longform essays and formal writing, and strong writing instruction will effectively incorporate both, she says. Is it quality writing? It’s a process.

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