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 Should they disclose that to students?

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

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. In all fairness, it was pretty sweet.

Essay 167

Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

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

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 9, 2020

Regardless of whether the assignment lacked a citation, the citation method was wrong, or the student didn’t cite the correct source, a plagiarism checker could have fixed that. On top of that, when all assignments equally go through a plagiarism check, the competition becomes fair again.

Plagiarism 156

Plagiarism Academic Integrity Students Assignments 156

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.

High School 52

High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. Ask students how they are feeling about assignments or specific strategies and why they are feeling that way.

Accessibility 218

Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

In 1980, 60 percent of 12th graders said they read a book, newspaper or magazine every day that wasn’t assigned for school, one study found. When, in good conscience, we assign particular readings to our students, what we’re inadvertently doing is narrowing the door. It’s not that they can’t. It’s that they choose not to.

Reading 167

Reading Essay Assignments Fairness 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Instead of asking the class to write a whole essay that demonstrated proficiency with analytical writing, I asked for two full paragraphs instead. Rather than working fast to assign lengthy tasks, teachers can do more with far less. When change is needed, why is it accompanied by a mindset that necessitates rushing the process?

Blended Learning 123

Blended Learning Education Essay Writing 123

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

How I figure it, there are a list of things I find reasonable for all students—letting them stand or wiggle when they are having problems with attention or sleepiness, taking extra time to answer questions for assignments and projects, moving at a pace that is comfortable for the slowest in the group when we are on-the-move for class, etc.

Disabilities 134

Disabilities Students Assignments Syllabus 134

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Our literacy coach and English teacher, Heidi Crocker, found a product from Turnitin – Revision Assistant – that used a powerful technology to assess writing and would turn the data it uncovered into feedback that students could apply to their essays immediately. This is a fair criticism. We decided to give it a try.

Testing 84

Testing Essay English Writing 84

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.

Authentic Assessment 133

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I’ve had my share of conversations about how to AI-proof written assignments, and explored some ways we might lean our activities more directly into the weaknesses of chatbots. I repeated this experiment with a student essay and asked ChatGPT specific questions based on several defined rubric categories.

Feedback 124

Feedback Writing Intelligence Essay 124

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I’ve had my share of conversations about how to AI-proof written assignments, and explored some ways we might lean our activities more directly into the weaknesses of chatbots. I repeated this experiment with a student essay and asked ChatGPT specific questions based on several defined rubric categories.

Feedback 116

Feedback Writing Intelligence Essay 116

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.

Authentic Assessment 111

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

For example, the biology teacher would instruct on different types of cells while the language teacher provided a writing framework to help students complete a compare-and-contrast essay on cell types. Students took the course during an assigned class period at their face-to-face school. Completion %. Avg Final Grade.

Hybrid Courses 89

Hybrid Courses Language Languages English 89

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

Dr Catlin Tucker And right now she is an AI teacher on special assignment for Saddleback Valley USD, where she focuses on integrating artificial intelligence for inclusive practices and is helping to lead kind of the roll out for AI implementation in the district. We have to think, you know, is an essay the right thing? Thank you.

Schools 195

Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 195

EAB

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the course of tackling one of the tasks it was assigned, GPT-4 independently reached out via TaskRabbit for help solving a CAPTCHA. An AI revolution When I think about generative AI, a story that keeps coming back to me is one from OpenAI’s testing of GPT-4, the neural network that powers ChatGPT.

Essay 52

Essay Attention Internet Questions 52

EAB

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

To recap some basics, on October 31 the Supreme Court heard arguments related to lawsuits that Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) brought against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, in connection with these institutions’ race-conscious admissions practices. The situation in brief. Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Discussions 52

Discussions Counselling Art Essay 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”).

Exams 215

Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

Among the assignments was the annotated bibliography. I assigned a variation of this assignment in an attempt to inform my students’ clinical practice and broaden their technical writing. The ubiquitous essay is still relevant despite ChatGPT. Rather than banning ChatGPT, I chose to embrace its possibilities. OpenAI Blog.

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Essay Assignments Languages 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

Among the assignments was the annotated bibliography. I assigned a variation of this assignment in an attempt to inform my students’ clinical practice and broaden their technical writing. The ubiquitous essay is still relevant despite ChatGPT. Rather than banning ChatGPT, I chose to embrace its possibilities. OpenAI Blog.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Essay Assignments Languages 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

On the other hand, only one-fourth (25%) of parents with children ages 5 and up are very confident teachers will be able to identify assignments or essays produced by AI. 69% believe it should be utilized for research in classrooms or at school. 48% trust lesson plans and curriculum created with AI tools.

Middle School 141

Middle School Middle School Education STEM 141

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 30, 2025

Take grammar: Many students come into my classroom unable to tell me what a predicate or preposition is, and yet they are able to intuitively use both in the production of wonderful stories and essays. I also make sure that once a concept is introduced we revisit it at least five times at a minimum. To see this in action, lets take the colon.

Languages 69

Languages Language English Writing 69