Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. For instance, on a recent assignment, some of the homework that came in didn’t sound like typical student work he was used to.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

Most people assume the move to online courses means students are logging on to the learning management system to take reading quizzes tied to their assigned textbook chapters and posting in the discussion board in line with weekly modules as their schedules allow. Related post: Leading eLearning and a Future Ready library opportunity.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

However, as students leverage generative AI for assignments and “Cheat detectors” prove ineffective in detecting AI-generated output, school administrators must take proactive measures to safeguard the authenticity of student assignments and promote ethical use. Certainly, none of us want to create additional digital inequities.

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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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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. The insight comes from the 2024 AI in Academia Study by Copyleaks.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. Providing student feedback on an assessment, or any assignment, provides extensive value. Thomas, Bastin, (2022).

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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. What it does mean is that we must assume that they might.

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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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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

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. Providing student feedback on an assessment, or any assignment, provides extensive value. Thomas, Bastin, (2022).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Teachers find AI tools that grade assignments, create lesson plans, and offer personalized student support. AI as an educational assistant AI tools shine at tasks like tracking assignment completion and suggesting practice problems.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2018

For example, at Wisconsin Virtual Academy (WIVA), our middle school students recently participated in a Virtual Science Fair. At the end of the assignment, many indicated they planned to dig deeper into their research. Students were given the freedom to choose what they studied.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A more practical imagining came from Ann Makosinski , a Canadian who as a teen invented a flashlight powered by body heat as part of a Google science fair. Students said the organization of online assignments helped, and not having to fish around for a pencil and the right notebook saved time and frustration. Guys in lab coats?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Broadband networks must be fair. . “There are three simple keys to our broadband future,” said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler in a statement. “Broadband networks must be fast. Broadband networks must be open.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2023

Current resources include a glossary of AI terms, a guide on updating an academic integrity policy in the age of AI and a downloadable AI misuse rubric to help educators proactively prepare writing assignments from potential AI-generated text.

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Writing Academic Integrity Education Feedback 299

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

And while these assignments were mostly enjoyable, they didn’t prepare me for the next steps on my leadership journey. Through dogged persistence, informal guidance from fellow leaders of color, and my fair share of luck, I became a principal and, later, a district superintendent.

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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.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As a digital learning team, we were assigned the responsibility of exploring the full spectrum of AI in education. How can we ensure that the AI tools we use are fair, transparent, and accountable, and do not introduce or reinforce biases or discrimination?

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

As a digital learning team, we were assigned the responsibility of exploring the full spectrum of AI in education. How can we ensure that the AI tools we use are fair, transparent, and accountable, and do not introduce or reinforce biases or discrimination?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2025

They fuel curiosity in STEM experiments, add depth to creative assignments, and soften the hum of devices with natural charm. A bouquet gifted to a teacher for a STEM fair adds warmth to the event, while marigolds shared in a class garden project teach sustainability. Flowers fit seamlessly into tech-driven education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. She imagines teachers might use AI in the same way to create assignments or lesson plans. “No Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

You can achieve this by making your assignment expectations clear, and providing guidelines in simple bullet point format so that they’re easy to understand. Even if it’s just an email to say hi, or specific feedback on an assignment. You know your students best, and you know the kind of work they are capable of.

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Learning Internet Assignments Fairness 199

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

I have trouble opening up my classes, viewing lectures, downloading lectures or material, and can never hand my assignments in on time even if I finish them before the deadline because my laptop is so slow it takes forever to upload work. You do need a device that is fairly new—not more than five years old.

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Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

Not only is it okay to stop grading every single assignment , but there’s also a smarter way to ensure your students are learning and growing: self-checking student work. Math Fluency Practice Without the Grading Drain You assign a daily math warm-up with 50 addition facts. Thats where self-checking student work comes in.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2017

It started with an underwhelming science fair—the type we’re all familiar with: students standing next to handmade posters, listlessly describing their projects, usually alone. Not your typical science fair . Want to shake up your local science fair? Some tips from the pros 1. Make it cheap.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

boast broadband access these days, and plenty of assignments require the internet, when students head home, their connections are not quite in lockstep with schools. Alternatively, schools can assign a SmartSpot to a student or household for up to a year. While most schools in the U.S. schools to high-speed broadband nears completion.

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Local Government Internet Assignments Schools 165

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

One of the critical goals of my role as a content teacher is to adapt curriculum, to design lessons and assignments to meet standards that are tailored to each learner, and to develop assessments that fairly evaluate each learner’s progress. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. In these structured written assignments, students reflected on their progress and made an estimate of their grade. I almost always agreed with students’ self-reflections and their self-assigned grades. Inspired by Susan D.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem is that as an educator, my natural inclination is to provide these students more direct instruction, increased support and even hand-holding at times—but in a society that values individuals who are motivated, persistent self-starters with initiative, that’s not fair. No, we just have to show the example,” another responded.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 158

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Each session includes expert video screencasts, classroom video clips, readings and resources, and assignments that will help participants create a strong foundation of communication within the classroom. K-12 classroom instructors, instructional coaches, and educational administrators are invited to enroll.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

One new feature, Grade Sync, will automatically send grades from assignments done in Teams to the school’s student information system (SIS). Managing and grading assignments in Microsoft Teams. Image credit: Microsoft) In addition, an update to the Teams mobile app will let teachers grade assignments from iOS and Android phones.

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Curriculum Plagiarism Assignments Fairness 149

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

One solution, says Garcia, is for professors to give “more authentic” assignments, like project-based work and other things that students would be more likely to see in a professional environment. One key to her approach is to set objective measures for each possible grade a student can get on the assignment (or it can be done pass/fail).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Since he now had the opportunity to manage his own time, Ratnam had the chance to drive his children to school and after-school activities, working with their school’s PTA, volunteering for the science fair and helping with homework every evening. In class, Ratnam’s son had a resource teacher assigned to support him. TechCrunch.

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Language Languages Assignments Reading 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In fact, the authors made the surprising conclusion that many instances of flipped learning involve more time spent on passive learning than the traditional lecture model, because some professors both assign short video lectures and spend some time in class lecturing to prepare for class activities.

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 211

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

students without home internet access, many of whom are now expected to use digital learning every day to access class materials and complete homework assignments. No matter who you are or where you live, you need access to modern communications to have a fair shot at 21st century success. The same holds for U.S. It's good stuff.

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Internet Disabilities Fairness Accessibility 167

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades.

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Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Help students understand how wind, ice, and water wear things down by assigning group or partner investigations using simple foods like graham crackers. Fuel young minds with elementary science fair project ideas Elementary students love the excitement of hands-on science!

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