eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

AI’s rise in popularity has brought with it questions about ethics, skills students will need for workplace success, and how to balance negatives with positives when it comes to teaching with this new generative tool. Here are five insights around AI in education: What is the best AI tool for teachers? How can AI be used in teaching?

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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). What is ChatGPT? See our ChatGPT Prompting Guide for Life Design + Career Education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Many coaches note that AI tools assisted in grading assignments, offering real-time feedback, and supporting differentiated instruction. They encourage teachers and students to utilize AI for brainstorming, outlining essays, and improving writing mechanics. Several ethical and privacy concerns were mentioned.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

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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.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I, on the other hand, want my students to use AI every day in class and for every assignment. On the other extreme is its complete acceptance; basically, you enter the essay prompt into ChatGPT and ask it to write the paper for you. Full AI Cognitive outsourcing AI independently writes the assignment.

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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?”

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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. She imagines teachers might use AI in the same way to create assignments or lesson plans. “No Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.)

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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.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

After all, chatbots can suddenly spit out five-paragraph essays and other texts in seconds, once considered something that only humans could generate. So they want their courses to help prepare them for this new world and to be part of developing ethical rules on how best to use AI.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In a recent staff editorial in the Daily Illini, the student paper at the University of Illinois, students made a forceful case calling for professors to design better assignments and tests instead of turning to surveillance tools. Students on other campuses agree.

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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. Writing assignments, for example, do not exist to keep all the fun out of kids’ lives; they are designed to teach efficiently. Cheating makes it unnecessary to do so.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

After all, students quickly spread the word on TikTok and other social media platforms that with a few simple prompts, a chatbot could write an essay or answer a homework assignment in ways that would be hard for teachers to detect. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.)

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

To address this, I designed an assignment for my online, college-level Fundamentals of Marketing course that teaches business students the essentials of branding and social media strategy and provides hands-on experience with GenAI tools. The assignment was divided into several components.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

To address this, I designed an assignment for my online, college-level Fundamentals of Marketing course that teaches business students the essentials of branding and social media strategy and provides hands-on experience with GenAI tools. The assignment was divided into several components.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Their attempt to write specific goals demonstrates an inability to effectively move from essay and reflective language to professional language. This cause-effect relationship between the outcomes of the course and their work ethic is worth spending time on in class. They are not actively participating in their own education.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

This essay is the last of a three-part series exploring the challenges facing educators of students who learn and think differently and elevating how SEL strategies can support educators in reframing and addressing those challenges now and in the long term. In a recent essay, Drs. Wanless and Tia N.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One should note, however, careful attention must be given to ethical considerations, data privacy, the role educators play in its use, and the transparency of AI systems. Comply with ethical guidelines: Ensure that your use of ChatGPT adheres to ethical guidelines and policies set by the platform or service provider.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. So how do we teach students to be ethically selective in their use of various tools and available information?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. So how do we teach students to be ethically selective in their use of various tools and available information?

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

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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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. It may be one like Storyboard That! Pixton , or another that you prefer. You may offer an example or rubric if those are available.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Educators may find their assignments and assessments become obsolete quickly,” he says. Educators may find their assignments and assessments become obsolete quickly. Teachers will have to be more transparent about what they’re expecting students to learn from an assignment,” says Dembo.

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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. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. It may be a Canva templates, Storyboard That!,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Struggling students just struggled more—some shut down completely from the sheer amount of assigned work. The milestone included three types of essays: informative, argumentative and narrative. My students were writing one essay a week, and I was collecting them in a Google Drive folder.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 127

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large. Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission. Instructors then provided final critiques, focusing on argumentation over mechanics.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One should note, however, careful attention must be given to ethical considerations, data privacy, the role educators play in its use, and the transparency of AI systems. Comply with ethical guidelines: Ensure that your use of ChatGPT adheres to ethical guidelines and policies set by the platform or service provider.

Communication 111

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While some educators rightfully voice concerns over the ethical aspects of such a tool, this article will draw on my own experiences using ChatGPT 4.0 Those tools were not just used to develop and deliver instruction, they became useful to students for their own course projects, assignments, and assessments.

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Ethics Intelligence Feedback Languages 128

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large. Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission. Instructors then provided final critiques, focusing on argumentation over mechanics.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With the students’ ease of access to artificial intelligence tools and the unprecedented speed and accuracy that these tools can generate assignments for students, teaching professionals have to respond immediately and effectively to this new reality so they ensure that what students deliver is their own production, not that of an AI tool.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

Assigning students to work in groups allows them to engage in shared decision-making, divide tasks, and collaborate on a common project. Incorporating reflection into online teaching provides opportunities for students to reflect on their learning through writing assignments, group discussions, or reflective journals.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

Assigning students to work in groups allows them to engage in shared decision-making, divide tasks, and collaborate on a common project. Incorporating reflection into online teaching provides opportunities for students to reflect on their learning through writing assignments, group discussions, or reflective journals.

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Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While some educators rightfully voice concerns over the ethical aspects of such a tool, this article will draw on my own experiences using ChatGPT 4.0 Those tools were not just used to develop and deliver instruction, they became useful to students for their own course projects, assignments, and assessments.

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Ethics Intelligence Feedback Languages 110

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98