Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. Each student progresses differently based on prior knowledge, learning preferences, and exposure to the language.

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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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Assignments Motivation Science Study 131

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

Combining PBL with makerspaces (also called maker education) gives educators an infinite number of projects, assignments, and activities that engage students and truly immerse them in learning. It could be a video, a photo essay, a 3D rendering, or even an interpretive dance performance.

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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

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Essay Social Studies Education Critical Thinking 199

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. Related: 4 things you should know about digital portfolios.

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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.” How to learn : Give students a voice in their courses by letting them choose how to learn about a topic and/or demonstrate their knowledge.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With school libraries beginning to function as digital media centers, these tools enable students to explore new modes of thought and include: Planning, drafting and executing podcasts or audio essays. This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 358

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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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

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).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 339

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

As the person in this role, I work hand-in-hand with our schools and teachers to ensure they have the tools and knowledge they need to recognize and address social-emotional concerns, apply SEL in their daily activities and support our overall efforts to enrich our school community. This same approach would work in other classes as well.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

We are no longer keepers and passers of knowledge as we once were. 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. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 14(1). link] Dorland, A.

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Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 306

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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Assignments History Art Ethics 124

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like.

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Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 96

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

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Consider these definitions that I share in my book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders : Cheating is using a tool or resource to misrepresent ones knowledge and skills to receive undue credit for a task. The accuser needs to support a claim about cheating with evidence that cheating occurred.

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? The pressure to perform well on assessments can create a situation where the grade becomes more important than the actual knowledge being gained. written essays or multimedia presentations)–can help students feel more invested.

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Academic Integrity Failure Culture Students 213

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Rethink Homework: Promote self-motivated study outside the classroom, encouraging students to deepen their knowledge at home. Discourage traditional homework assignments involving written tasks and essays, especially with unreliable AI detection tools. Remove grading for non-end-of-year assessment work.

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Teaching Learning Essay Knowledge 170

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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High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 209

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Memorization and other lower-order skills represented at the bottom of Bloom’s Taxonomy or Level One of Webb’s Depth of Knowledge wheel are part of the learning process. The Adobe for Education team believes that the edtech world is moving beyond simply connecting students to their classrooms, learning resources and assignments.

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 209

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

I think there's a feeling amongst a lot of people that there's something broken about the way we produce knowledge in academia,” he says. And it seems to me that the answer to this attack on expert knowledge and on scholarly knowledge is not to retreat. Let's open up our knowledge production processes.

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Teaching Peer Review Essay Knowledge 148

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

And if that homework involves writing assignments, the hours add up fast. Teachers Need More Time The Challenge: The larger the class is, and the more students that are in it, the longer it takes to review each written assignment—checking grammar, style, originality of ideas, etc.

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Plagiarism Teachers Writing Assignments 167

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

MARCH 27, 2025

Every semester, a student hoping to “earn their desired grade” approaches me at the last minute, asking to make up all their missed assignments. Basically, they hadnt even tried to complete assignments. or I am sure I can get all these assignments done before finals week. You know the requests: I know this already.

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Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 108

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.

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Essay Teaching Methods Instructors Motivation 146

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Communication as a student in a foreign land depends heavily on knowledge of the language. I understand that speaking, note-making, and working on assignments in another language is quite hectic. Secondly, their assignment quality is frailer due to their frail language strength, especially during dissertation writing.

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Language Languages Communication English 134

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.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

John Warner’s forthcoming book, Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities , addresses this question directly. I go back to trying to decide what kind of thinking I'm trying to privilege with the assignment and then helping students get started on that path.”

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Writing Skills Teaching Essay 155

Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

Every semester, a student hoping to “earn their desired grade” approaches me at the last minute, asking to make up all their missed assignments. Basically, they hadnt even tried to complete assignments. or I am sure I can get all these assignments done before finals week. You know the requests: I know this already.

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Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 96

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. Some of those instructors are spending their summer breaks giving their homework assignments a makeover , hoping to make them harder for students to outsource the work to chatbots.

Ethics 148

Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

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

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Designing assignments that are more difficult to cheat on Harper helped lead a large-scale study on how to address contract cheating by improving the assignments given by universities, which produced an extensive website with resources and recommendations. Still, no type of assignment is cheat-proof, she adds.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Attention 152

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 25, 2016

Rubrics are a well-accepted, even transformative tool for assessing student knowledge over a breadth of criteria. With Quick Rubric, all you need to do is translate expectations to criteria and then record the evidence students are expected to provide in demonstrating their knowledge. That’s it. Common Core Rubric Creator.

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Essay Evaluation Authentic Assessment Assignments 92

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? For the most part, these concerns are rooted in a cultural orientation that frames knowledge as property. When we view any kind of knowledge as property, the emergent danger is the potential for someone to “steal” someone else’s knowledge.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? For the most part, these concerns are rooted in a cultural orientation that frames knowledge as property. When we view any kind of knowledge as property, the emergent danger is the potential for someone to “steal” someone else’s knowledge.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98