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.” For a history class studying World War II, one student or group might learn about the Normandy invasion, while another might take on the rise of fascism and a third might explore the Pacific front.

Students 348

Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., In academic settings, ChatGPT can be used to produce written essays, reports, and responses when supplied with the assignment prompt.

Assignments 124

Assignments History Art Ethics 124

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. But Cote saw that now an AI chatbot can be trained on the same rubric to instantly give the same kind of feedback. “Now

Essay 197

Essay Social Studies Education Critical Thinking 197

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

This is a standalone design thinking assignment where students are tasked to learn about or discover a need or issue within our local community by talking with family, friends, or other adults. The History of Design Thinking. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 14(1). References Dam, R. and Teo, Y. 2022, May 20).

Failure 306

Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 306

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

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware. Anderson says. We want to break through that.”

Art 209

Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 209

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching metacognition equips ELLs with the tools needed to navigate not only language acquisition but also the demands of various subject areas, from math and science to history and literature (Flavell, 1979; Schraw & Moshman, 1995). Can you tell me how you approached this assignment? That helped me finish that part of the essay.

Essay 170

Essay Ethics Feedback Language 170

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Machado was nominated by the Bilingual Department Chairperson Brian Donovan who submitted an essay describing how Machado helps his students. Machado had the student tell the story of the journey through an assignment and took the story to a local dentist’s office where his wife worked as a dental assistant. About Rosetta Stone.

Essay 180

Essay English Language Languages 180

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. When students can understand how one topic might be covered in English, History and Science, they’re able to grasp it more deeply.

High School 207

High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 207

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group. Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning. It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding.

Quizzes 159

Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 159

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

They are similar to essays but usually more detailed and longer. Regardless of the course (science, history, or literature), every student has to prepare a research document at some point or the other. Choose a Topic The first step in writing a research paper is to pick an assignment topic that interests you.

Writing 159

Writing Essay Plagiarism Study 159

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. And last but not least, some help for all of us amateur Google detectives.

Essay 167

Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

When I went to Google Docs and clicked on version history, I was only getting days of drafts saved rather than actual changes made during a composing session. So, I continued my online search and found how to use Google Docs’ detailed version history by clicking on the arrow by the date next to version. Revision history in Google Docs.

Academic Integrity 116

Academic Integrity Essay Plagiarism History 116

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. History course assignment about the Constitution. But if that student can send a message to tell the teacher something privately, they’ll do it. GoGuardian Blog & Learning Resources.

Teachers 188

Teachers Students Special Education History 188

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2019

Carlin was explaining how to make history relevant to all students, whether it's the history of hip-hop music, the evolution of the coffee industry or a person you pass on the street. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

History 163

History Teachers Students Interdisciplinary 163

Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

When I went to Google Docs and clicked on version history, I was only getting days of drafts saved rather than actual changes made during a composing session. So, I continued my online search and found how to use Google Docs’ detailed version history by clicking on the arrow by the date next to version. Revision history in Google Docs.

Academic Integrity 109

Academic Integrity Essay Plagiarism History 109

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 164

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 164

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

Bryan Alexander Audio has a long history that is important for edtech folks to understand. He even tracked down a recording of Campbell reading his essay aloud, sampled it, then excerpted it in his finished work—all on their own, without my prompting it We started class with a dive into audio history.

Essay 115

Essay Teaching History Learning 115

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It Starts in the Community I grew up in northeast Denver — a place rich in Black history and culture where the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education enacted the Black Excellence Resolution. This essay is a call to action, a reflection of my journey and an invitation to all who believe in the transformative power of math education.

Math 211

Math Beliefs Students Failure 211

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Here’s how it might work for an English teacher: Imagine you’ve assigned students a persuasive essay and provided them with a rubric communicating academic expectations. complete and submit the assignment on time), you can add a self-management rubric row. If you want your students to manage themselves (e.g.

Teaching 168

Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. Janet suggests assigning the class to create the rubric.

Writing 110

Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 110

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It counts when an essay expands from one unclear sentence to three paragraphs of of compelling narrative, even if three paragraphs doesn’t cut it on the rubric. Academic Effort When Junior first came to McClarin, he would rarely submit more than a first sentence when asked to write an essay. Probably not.

Testing 127

Testing Essay Writing Motivation 127

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

It was a podcast version of the BBC radio show In Our Time, where a panel of academics discussed the history of ideas. Some people just switch out a written assignment for an audio assignment. Because let's say a student essay of 2,000 to 3,000 words, you can't easily read that out on a podcast. And I've done this myself.

Teaching 148

Teaching Peer Review Essay Knowledge 148

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

They write brief papers and give short oral reports, building skills and stamina they eventually will need to complete and present a capstone research project, their final assignment before they graduate. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dark The professor explains the next assignment for the course. It was positive.

Students 166

Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 166

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to detect student use of generative AI systems. William Quarterman, a student at the University of California at Davis, was accused of cheating.

Plagiarism 117

Plagiarism Academic Integrity Intelligence Instructors 117

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Differences in lived experiences, values, beliefs, histories, identities, and more will influence how individual students experience the learning environment (Lovett, Bridges, DiPietro, Ambrose, & Norman, 2023). Students must understand why the assignment is important, what is expected, and how the quality of their work will be judged.

Syllabus 130

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 130

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

This inspired me to seek out a game, or online environment, that could provide more expansive experiences for them—a place that would allow them to explore, on their own or with others, and where I could embed history content for them to discover. On Twitter I came across an exploratory discussion of Minecraft’s potential for school use.

Teaching 168

Teaching Critical Thinking Essay Discussions 168

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

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. We decided to give it a try. led to higher scores.

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

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Assessing student learning used to be as simple as giving a test that consisted of multiple choice, True/False, short answer, and/or essay. Students (primarily elementary age) log into their BrainPop account and access a teacher-assigned video or search for one of their own. No need to look further. Classtools Mapmaker Game.

Learning 104

Learning Essay Students Testing 104

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

public education system has evolved throughout its history, school libraries have also developed with a consistent central goal: to give students the best opportunity to succeed academically. This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work. As the U.S.

Schools 246

Schools Language Languages Reading 246

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” He believes chief academic officers are best positioned to lead and implement a campus-wide strategy around building digital literacies.

Instructors 154

Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 154

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Every student is assigned a tutor who is available to answer questions if needed. There are no History, English literature, languages, or what are commonly considered ‘soft’ subjects available. How to Prepare for the SAT Essay. Practice questions monitor understanding to see if you’re ready for summative tests.

Textbooks 95

Textbooks Exams Syllabus Essay 95

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. For example, in a history course, students can form groups to research and present on different historical events or periods.

Active Learning 98

Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission.

Faculty Development 87

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 87