eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Educators overwhelmingly agree that tools using generative AI should be harnessed positively, with users taught to use them ethically (84 percent). In Michigan’s Fenton Area Public Schools, staff may use AI in ethical and responsible ways.

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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. It’s important to make the writing process less intimidating.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Student agency: A student should be able to use a topic theyre interested in and apply it to assignments. What does meaningful learning look like in an age of AI Best practices in infusing AI into the classroom: Understanding models and limitations: Teachers must understand the different AI models and what they do. But others exist.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. In other courses, I restrict the use of generative AI tools to particular uses for specific assignments.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Instead of banning AI, educators can design assignments that leverage these tools. Educators can guide students to interrogate the reliability of AI outputs and discuss the ethical implications of biased algorithms. This suggests that the AIAS not only fosters ethical AI use but also enhances learning experiences in diverse contexts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While 34 percent of educators report using AI very frequently to draft or review assignments, only 24 percent of students do the same, highlighting a significant trend in AI adoption and sentiment within the educational landscape. Significant unsanctioned AI usage Educators and students differ greatly in following school AI ethics policies.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2025

This evolution has revised, if not totally disrupted, the playing field, positioning all of us as digital immigrants navigating to a new rapidly changing landscape of capabilities and ethical complexities. Asking learners to revise assignments or draft an outline with the help of AI are good places to start.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2024

Questioning a tool or practice that initially seems so beneficial and positive forces students to pause and consider the quality of the information they’re receiving, as well as issues of security and ethics for the tools they’re using. Ethics : Share real-world examples to illustrate ethical dilemmas involving AI.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Strategic Approaches to AI Integration One effective strategy is to intentionally redesign classroom activities and assignments to incorporate AI tools. This allows educators to gain insights from students interactions with these technologies, fostering a deeper understanding of their applications and promoting ethical use.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

The tool is so advanced compared to other writing tools of its kind that a lot of people instantly started using it for all kinds of ethically ambiguous purposes. Explain that when they use AI tools to generate the texts for their assignments, they are not actually presenting their own writing to you.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Personal Reflections: Students could make claims about their learning experiences, provide evidence from their assignments, and ask questions about how they can improve their skills.

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Questions Metacognitive Skills Ethics Math 415

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Key points: Edtech tools can be a valuable resource to build media literacy skills Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators How to help students build critical success skills For more news on media literacy, see eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Media literacy has emerged as a critical skillset in today’s digital landscape.

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Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 306

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

AI’s rise in popularity has brought with it questions about ethics, skills students will need for workplace success, and how to balance negatives with positives when it comes to teaching with this new generative tool. Here are five insights around AI in education: What is the best AI tool for teachers? How can AI be used in teaching?

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Ethics Education Internet Essay 304

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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some believe it will cripple the education system and replace human workers ; others denounce ChatGPT as a free essay-writing and test-taking tool that makes it laughably easy to cheat on assignments, while the validity of responses generated by ChatGPT has also been called into question. What is ChatGPT?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It can help teachers save a tremendous amount of time on administrative tasks like researching and developing lesson plans, creating rubrics for assignments, and communicating with parents–time that can be refocused on students instead. AI has the power to revolutionize education. Offer teachers AI professional development.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

While AI offers promising enhancements to education, ethical and safety implications give many parents pause. On the other hand, only one-fourth (25 percent) of parents with children ages 5 and up are very confident teachers will be able to identify assignments or essays produced by AI.

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Schools Essay Ethics Assignments 292

eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

AI offers the potential for virtual tutoring, a helper that can answer students’ questions, guide them through assignments, and provide targeted feedback without requiring the teacher’s constant input. Privacy and ethical considerations: Data-driven insights are useful, but they raise questions about privacy and ethical responsibility.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes.

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Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 102

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

The majority (62 percent) of those queried suggested that schools offer guidance on the ethics of using AI, including boundaries related to AI content creation, misuse, and plagiarism. How can high schools prepare students for the future world of AI?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Impressively, the librarians also fielded questions, addressing ethical considerations of AI, detailing the importance of vocabulary when it comes to writing powerful prompts, and reminding students that they need to be thinkers themselves and not just settle for what ChatGPT generates. Now prove me wrong.” And that made us all squirm.

English 337

English Syllabus Intelligence Assignments 337

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

In many schools, computer science instruction is assigned to teachers based on availability rather than expertise. To be intellectually ethical, computer science education should equip students with comprehensive knowledge about AI. Computer science curricula should be turnkey, ready for any educator to pick up and teach.

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Science Ethics Education Students 102

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Many coaches note that AI tools assisted in grading assignments, offering real-time feedback, and supporting differentiated instruction. Despite its advantages, instructional coaches identified several challenges and ethical concerns. Several ethical and privacy concerns were mentioned.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 214

eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Key points: Integrating engaging digital tools can sharpen students’ money management skills Increasing K-12 tech accessibility Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators For more news on curriculum trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Financial literacy is greatly undervalued in today’s digital age. Half of all U.S.

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Students Assignments Ethics Curriculum 278

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2025

Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? Training lags behind uptake Despite increasingly embracing AI, only 31 percent of teachers claim to have received training or substantial guidance from their school, with many respondents hoping to receive instruction on how to deploy the technology effectively and ethically.

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Teachers Ethics Exams Coaching 213

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

While it may seem logical for teachers and professors to clearly disclose when they use AI to develop instructional materials, just as they are asking students to do in assignments, Watkins points out that it’s not as simple as it might seem. She imagines teachers might use AI in the same way to create assignments or lesson plans. “No

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I, on the other hand, want my students to use AI every day in class and for every assignment. Level of AI Use Key Concept Example No AI Cognitive autonomy student independently writes the assignment. Full AI Cognitive outsourcing AI independently writes the assignment. Both are key to supporting students academic success.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

This change reduces writing assignment stress and time pressure, improving productivity and learning. However, when leveraging such tools for school assignments, it’s crucial to ensure the work remains authentic because teachers always check AI% in Turnitin or other detectors.

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Writing Essay Ethics Plagiarism 187

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. And whatever career they pursue, “they’re going to be under stress and pressure a lot and we want them to make ethical decisions.

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Exams Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments 218

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Developing the skills to use these tools ethically is an essential part of digital literacy that will carry forward to help them succeed in school and in life.” Composer allows teachers to create assignments and then closely observe the entire process their students follow, from gathering information to writing and revising.

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Writing Ethics Plagiarism Academic Integrity 161

eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

21st-century skills such as critical thinking, communication, creativity, flexibility, having initiative, and having a positive attitude and work ethic are essential for success in college and careers —and these skills are all related to high-quality STEM learning experiences and STEM literacy.

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Science Technology STEM Education 244

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

But she says its important to remember that students are only human, and that some humans have always cheated in certain situations especially young people still figuring out their ethics and values. Remembering that most students arent looking to be cheaters can take down the temperature so that instructors dont get so worked up about it.

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Academic Integrity Instructors Ethics Students 184

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Instant messaging tools proved particularly convenient during the lockdown, as teachers could easily inform the students of assignment due dates, changes in lecture schedule, or exchange any important updates.

Distributed Testing 257

Distributed Testing Lecturing Communication Ethics 257

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Responsible decision-making is the ability to assess a situation, understand the benefits and consequences of different responses, consider what is ethical and safe, and make kind and productive choices. The urgency of an assignment or task may make it feel important when it actually is not. What is responsible decision-making?

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Learning Syllabus Evaluation Discussions 370