eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Key points: ChatGPT is here to stay, and it’s wise to now consider it a part of learning In fact, every assignment moving forward must be graded with ChatGPT in mind See related article: How educators can navigate AI-driven plagiarism You may have heard of ChatGPT. Whether you like it or not, we have a new partner in the classroom.

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Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 337

eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Every month, my Advanced English teacher, Mr. Johnson, assigned our class one of the classics of English literature and expected us to demonstrate what we had learned with an accompanying essay. Consequently, I found myself in a pressure cooker each month, drafting essays in the final days and hours before they were due.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 328

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With 93 percent of parents of school children ages 5 and up concerned about AI being used in the classroom or at school, the survey offers a deeper dive into what parents think about their children using AI. It also shares best practices to safely navigate the back-to-school season.

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Schools Essay Ethics Assignments 287

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2019

Whether it’s studying for an exam, completing a college essay, or finishing a social studies project, all students will inevitably find themselves procrastinating at some point in their academic careers. A school-avoidant student will continue to miss classes indefinitely and assignments will remain incomplete until term’s end.

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Failure Essay Exams Schools 278

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For a new generation of educators, these pursuits have something in common: They’re all appropriate learning exercises that can take place in the school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education. The Evolution of the School Library.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 358

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

Explore the benefits and drawbacks of AI in essay writing, including its impact on student learning. AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them? AI’s influence in essay writing is growing, highlighting both advantages and significant issues.

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Writing Essay Ethics Plagiarism 187

Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can sometimes be. Maybe the student skipped class or doesn’t have all the material handed out with the assignment.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 119

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2021

It sounds at first like a typical assignment for a high school English class. Students at Belmont Hill School are asked to think of someone they encounter in their daily lives who might need a financial boost and record a short video essay about them and why they’re important in their lives.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

These skills will serve them long after they leave school. Barriers to Effective Transfer and Application of Learning Assigning the same task to all students without offering any choices can significantly hinder the effective transfer and application of learning. Can you generate activities that connect with for my grade students?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can sometimes be. Maybe the student skipped class or doesn’t have all the material handed out with the assignment.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 110

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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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2020

Providing substantive comments on stacks of student essays, however, is highly time-consuming for busy teachers. As a result, teachers can be reluctant to assign many essays that require students to produce multiple drafts or provide extensive comments on early drafts of students’ writing.

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Evaluation Writing Essay Teachers 265

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. ESL students won’t be able to succeed at school or college if they can’t use the language well enough: Their grades and overall subject knowledge will suffer. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 286

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

According to a survey , as many as 58 percent of high school students have plagiarized work, and 95 percent admitted to some form of cheating. Many teachers already are rethinking assessments and assignments to shift the question from how students will use AI to cheat, to how students can learn to use AI responsibly.

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Plagiarism Education Assignments Essay 331

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators can even tap student enthusiasm for new technology by assigning–and assessing student learning using–multimedia projects. Secret 1: Multimedia assignments. These types of assignments are also harder to farm out to AI! Motivate students to act by incorporating action planning into assignments.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 344

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

million students on the Paper platform just in time for the 2022-2023 school year. Paper Live will help to address systemic inequities by providing an entertaining, educational after-school activity at no cost to parents. Today’s students take many different paths after high school. The new features will be available to all 2.5

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Essay Feedback Math Assignments 257

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. The best part?

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Curriculum Failure Essay Art 300

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

They could be implemented at the institutional level, but instructors should be given the opportunity to determine the level of generative AI tool use at the course or even the assignment level. In other courses, I restrict the use of generative AI tools to particular uses for specific assignments.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Instead of returning to the “normal,” pre-pandemic version of school, I propose that school, district, and classroom leaders take this opportunity to shape a new system—one that’s effective for every student. Think of UDL as an operating system, of sorts, for your classroom, school, or district. Applying UDL in the classroom.

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Universal Design Essay Textbooks Learning 286

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Our school is a five-year program that works to create first-generation college students. North Carolina is a leading state in the number of “early colleges,” which allow students to earn a college degree with their high school diploma. I combine the picture books with Gilder Lehrman essays in my classroom.

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Students History Essay High School 339

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Agency is a key element in personalizing education, and research has found that students who have agency in their learning are happier in school and more likely to achieve success. 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.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. He has long argued that U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While it traditionally is an assessment tool for college-bound seniors, more and more high schools are choosing it as an exit exam for graduating seniors (such as these changes in Ohio and the State of Washington ). In this article, I’ll focus on preparation for the SAT essay portion. take practice tests. Freemium, iOS.

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Essay Mobile Devices Exams Writing 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2023

AI in education isn’t about replacing human educators, and it certainly doesn’t mean that students are off the hook with AI-written essays and assignments. school systems, the core issue faced by teachers is overlooked–data overload. Traditionally, districts have tossed their staff tool after tool in an effort to help.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. Now I can make this a reality as district administrator for social emotional learning (SEL) for the Windsor Public Schools. Then Dr. Hill invested in SEL specialists who work in all of our schools, from K-12.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Today’s digital-savvy students welcomed ChatGPT with open arms and began using it for writing assignments. According to a new study from Academic Help , 67 percent of students use AI for creating texts – the basis for their essays and other papers. The issue here is not only about the academic integrity violation.

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Writing Skills Plagiarism Teaching 246

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. Students can create their own animations to transform their assignments into engaging classroom presentations. The company is fully committed to using AI for good.

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Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 331

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Newark Public Schools wants to see a districtwide expansion of an artificial intelligence tutoring tool after it was piloted at First Avenue School last year, as the district searches for ways to help students catch up from pandemic learning loss. The strategy here is not to do it in any one school only,” León added.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

With the time it takes to score and give feedback on student work deterring many writing teachers from assigning lengthier writing tasks, and with the long turnaround time most students wait to receive grades and feedback, there is significant timesaving and learning potential in an AI helping grade student work. Figure 1: Teacher v.

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Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 186

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Demographics: Hillsboro High School is part of the Hillsboro Independent School District in Hillsboro, Texas. 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. Lessons learned: Confidence affects effort.

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Essay Failure Writing Students 182

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While the fears of using AI to cheat aren’t unfounded, how many educators have actually tried writing an essay using just AI? But that’s only a risk if schools and teachers hold a low bar for what they expect of their students. Just as the internet revolutionized learning, AI will be the next game-changer. Now prove me wrong.”

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Ethics Education Internet Essay 298

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Together, the companies will offer a comprehensive CCR platform that will support all students, regardless of their preferred path after high school. Today, most high schools and CCR programs are focused primarily on college preparation, despite the U.S. parents want more non-college paths for their high school students.

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Secondary Education Essay High School High School 286

eSchool News

MAY 8, 2017

The problem is especially challenging for high school teachers, who might have as many as five classes of 30 students each. That’s 150 essays they would have to read and respond to for every writing assignment they give. That, in turn, has helped better prepare the school’s students for the rigors of an IB curriculum.

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Writing Technology Essay Feedback 178

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

high school students have been quick to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), with 46 percent saying they use AI tools to help them with their school work. Rather than relying on this score alone, his teacher called him to discuss the assignment. Use AI to develop games and quizzes aligned with the school curriculum.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Plagiarism 239

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Providing comprehensive and skill-aligned feedback on student essays is time-consuming, and educators often wish they could offer more support during a student’s writing process. Founded in 2016, Writable is an award-winning assessment and practice solution reaching students in over 16,000 schools and districts.

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Plagiarism Teachers Feedback Essay 246

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But most students at K-12 schools are not old enough to use ChatGPT without permission from a parent or guardian, according to the tool’s own rules. middle and high schools can’t even try ChatGPT without a parent sign-off, even if their schools or teachers want to embrace the technology. That means most students in U.S.

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Academic Integrity Assignments Essay Schools 188