Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Just as the technological revolution of the printing press democratized the authorship and distribution of books, so too does social media and the internet allow for more voices to be heard and for a wide variety of authors—including our students—to connect with audiences around the world.

Writing 167

Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

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. Better internet would help tremendously in our community,” Angel said. Personally, I do not have any type of internet at home. However, students may have no internet access when they get home.

Internet 130

Internet Essay Assignments English 130

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels. Sharing other people’s thoughts, jokes and artwork on the Internet is an everyday act. Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels.

Plagiarism 125

Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 125

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The internet is awash in surveys touting the inseparable connection between kids and technology. Even in middle school, Hyler still sees students struggle with concepts such as proper capitalization and tone, as they navigate between texting with friends and crafting essays or emails to adults. Is it quality writing? It’s a process.

Writing 165

Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It sounds too simple when I read the dozens of articles that fill the internet so I asked the AI to tell me what it was: “ChatGPT is a computer program that generates text based on what you type to it. The hottest disruptive technology to come to education since iPads is ChatGPT. Highlighted Parts.

Writing 158

Writing Plagiarism Intelligence Students 158

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 Google Keep’s extension is a fast way to bookmark content on a site and review later in a Doc.

Essay 167

Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Many institutions still rely on Turnitin, but the professionals who must check dozens of essays on a daily basis know that this expensive service can be way too slow. . The internet is full of guides on how to resolve various issues with Turnitin, but that’s still not enough to cover all possible problems.

Plagiarism 158

Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Students wrote essays arguing whether the bot furthered their understanding of his character or if the bot strayed so far from the book that it was no longer useful. The essays were fascinating. Some students followed my rubric, but never seemed to think of HoldenAI as anything more than a robot in a school assignment.

Evaluation 212

Evaluation Essay Students Questions 212

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2023

Having this knowledge, it would be easier to deal with assignments, homework, and life issues. This way, college kids might get closer to understanding how to write cause and effect essay. In an argumentative essay, the cause-and-effect lays forth the chain of events that led to the current state of affairs. Read on to find out.

Essay 146

Essay Teaching Methods Instructors Motivation 146

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

The problem, though, is that some sites simply set up shop on a new internet server to avoid the ban, and officials say there is no way to completely restrict access to such sites through blocking IP addresses alone. Still, no type of assignment is cheat-proof, she adds.

Plagiarism 157

Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Attention 157

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. First, educators had to rethink infrastructure.

Accessibility 218

Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The essays start off sardonically but become increasingly earnest and reflective.

Reading 147

Reading Essay Instructors Culture 147

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work. Prior to the advent of the internet as a research tool, librarians in university settings and some high schools focused heavily on citation methods and formats.

Schools 246

Schools Language Languages Reading 246

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2017

When I started teaching, homework always involved paper–a worksheet, a poster, a written essay, or something else like that. Because students couldn’t access school-based materials at home (for reasons like no internet or no digital device), I had to assign homework that could be completed without school resources, by themselves.

Assignments 113

Assignments Students Quizzes Evaluation 113

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2018

A well-known fact: A large portion of every teacher’s workflow is actually consumed by the assignment review, collecting the student work, notifying the class about upcoming events, changes in the timetable, revision, and grading. Checking the written assignments. Grading assignments in Google Classroom is not always an easy thing.

Quizzes 94

Quizzes Essay Learning Assignments 94

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Six months out from when it broke the internet, ChatGPT — and its numerous clones and adaptations — have drummed up great interest, and concerns, for teachers, school leaders and districts. Educators may find their assignments and assessments become obsolete quickly,” he says. Dembo refutes this claim right out the gate.

Coaching 148

Coaching Teachers Schools Ethics 148

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Access disparitiesunreliable internet or devicesthreaten equitable implementation (Means et al., Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission. However, 20% of students lacked reliable internet, prompting SCC to expand Wi-Fi access.

Faculty Development 88

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2016

At EdSurge, we scour the internet for tools to help teachers find the best edtech products out there. Send them a Mark Twain essay or an Agatha Christie mystery. Teachers can create accounts and assign worksheets without disclosing students’ personal information. Since January 2016, we’ve showcased over 100 edtech “S’Cool Tools.”

Essay 104

Essay Lecturing Writing Internet 104

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Access disparitiesunreliable internet or devicesthreaten equitable implementation (Means et al., Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission. However, 20% of students lacked reliable internet, prompting SCC to expand Wi-Fi access.

Faculty Development 78

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 78

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

“I need a 10 page essay written on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Universities usually have strict honor code policies about students cheating on exams, homework and other assignments. But the internet has given students an assortment of digital tools to get around those rules. Must have 7 resources.”

Essay 89

Essay Ethics Exams Academic Integrity 89

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Assign work, collect homework, grade submittals, track overdue work, and more from the Teacher Dashboard. How to Prepare for the SAT Essay. Each course has about a hundred videos, each 5-10 minutes in length. Create a classroom (in about ten seconds).

Exams 83

Exams Quizzes Textbooks Mobile Devices 83

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When ChatGPT was first released, questions swirled around higher ed about it stoking an increase in plagiarism, promoting a lack of critical thinking, and what the future would hold for classic functions like the college admission essay. Which AI is the best for students? But with AI in schools, that is simply not the case.

Plagiarism 130

Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2018

Luckily for us due to the evolution of technology, everyone with an Android device or access to the internet can get the help needed to write and polish a paper. We all got writing assignments in school and college. This app is used for writing essays, screenplays, novels, white papers, business proposals, and other types of documents.

Writing 84

Writing English Essay Internet 84

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

The opponent might be a classmate or an anonymous person on the Internet, depending upon the program you select. Have students type a school project (such as a book report or essay) while paying attention to keyboarding skills. These are game-based learning where students strive to type fast so they can beat an opponent. Cyberbullying.

Activities 88

Activities Schools Ethics Writing 88

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Students attend live classes or access pre-recorded lessons, submit assignments electronically, take exams online, and engage in digital collaboration with peers and teachers. Asynchronous Learning: Students access recorded lectures, complete assignments at their own pace, and submit work within flexible deadlines.

High School 52

High School High School Exams Schools 52

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. Underlying that range is the remarkable fact that the new AIs are capable of reading the entire Internet, remembering all they have read, and bringing that information to bear on any question they are asked.

Essay 52

Essay Attention Internet Questions 52

k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

In project-based settings, students can showcase hometown traditions, family recipes, local music, or national heroes as part of their academic assignments. Teachers assign collaborative projects where cultural diversity becomes an asset, not an obstacle. Creating group assignments that mix students across regions and time zones.

Culture 52

Culture Schools Language Languages 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

After trying it out on some essay prompts he’d been assigned, though, he noticed some problems. It seemed to take out some of the thankless legwork (or, some professors might argue, the work) from essay writing, only requiring a little pre-work and a touch of editing: “You can at least write papers 30 percent quicker,” he says.

Plagiarism 211

Plagiarism Essay Writing Students 211

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

No internet. Based on this assignment, one could argue that my college history class transcended the surface-level exploration endemic to most lessons in school. Since I was a student, this technology has become more sophisticated, evolving from basic calculators to essay-writing chatbots.

Teachers 198

Teachers History Education Learning 198

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

She barely submitted the essay that was due in English class. Bada had them critique their ChatGPT-designed essays. With no computer at home, inconsistent electricity and a smartphone that she shares with her family, some days, it’s a fight to use the phone to check in on assignments. It was cool that Ms.

Essay 186

Essay Local Government Internet Accessibility 186

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

It is a text predictor based upon a subset of data found on the internet. It does not monitor the data and is not a reflection of something larger or more nefarious occurring on the internet. Among the assignments was the annotated bibliography. The ubiquitous essay is still relevant despite ChatGPT.

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Essay Assignments Language 122

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

And we talked about how the emerging Internet of Things (like Nest thermostats and Alexa assistants) were changing our lives: less dead time, little experience reading maps, fewer uses of paper, more media and more opportunities to learn. Students can capture multiple types of media, then work them into assignments.

Mobile Devices 135

Mobile Devices Learning Essay Internet 135

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2024

There’s no neatly wrapped solution to tie up her essay — because her school hasn’t devised one. depressing news about the teaching profession, Lauren Cella has carved out a delightful corner of the internet where she puts her own humorous twist on history lectures. Teaching Was My Dream.

Essay 161

Essay Lecturing History Group work 161

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

It is a text predictor based upon a subset of data found on the internet. It does not monitor the data and is not a reflection of something larger or more nefarious occurring on the internet. Among the assignments was the annotated bibliography. The ubiquitous essay is still relevant despite ChatGPT.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Essay Assignments Language 98