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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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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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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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. Do you like watching sports live or on TV?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The tweens took up the challenge, organizing the Tech Boost Conference and providing all the breakout sessions on topics that interested them — coding, making video games, writing music, using digital arts and a host of other cool tools now literally at their fingertips. A lightbulb-moment video kicked off Alphonso’s talk.

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Middle School Middle School Schools Fairness 278

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 105

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

He has steered the course ever since, each spring when he takes breaks from writing books or pieces for The New Yorker, and it has become legendary in journalism circles. 4: On the Writing Process , and I was eager to talk to him about his craftsmanship as a teacher. McPhee lays out his course in his latest book, Draft No.

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Writing Teaching English Reading 167

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? These are totally different things,” he says. “As

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

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. Daisies pressed into virtual journals spark creative writing, with tech tools preserving the results. Flowers fit seamlessly into tech-driven education. Theyre a bridge to community too.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Grass Head Science Journal – Growing Hair Experiment – Kindergarten & First By Class of Kinders Grade: K-1st Subject: Earth Sciences, Writing This experiment for kids includes a journal and a breakdown of the steps. The next day, have students write a secret message using a white crayon on white paper.

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Elementary School Elementary School Science Schools 75

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Teach Writing with Tech. Experiment with a wide variety of available digital writing tools to help your students develop their inner writer. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.

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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. We often neglect to tell students that reading, writing and communicating are just as necessary to success as technical skills,” Longcor explains. “In

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Art Language Languages STEM 161

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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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 158

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

But one of them is particularly noteworthy: the Lenovo 300e, a 2-in-1 device with a screen that students can write on with any No. 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.

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Curriculum Plagiarism Assignments Fairness 154

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Teach Writing with Tech. fair use/public domain. Certificate. Certificate.

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Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 31

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. What Did Students Think?

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Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 184

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Writing With Tech. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Teach Writing with Tech. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. fair use/public domain. Certificate.

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Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 158

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. The unit is about how storytelling can connect us to others.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

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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English Language Languages Teachers 200

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

And we also heard from Dan Meyer, vice president of user growth at Amplify, a curriculum and assessment company, who writes a newsletter about teaching mathematics where he has raised objections to the idea of using AI chatbots as tutors. We're working on them being able to assign AI-based activities.

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Intelligence Teaching Assistants Laboratory Assignments 204

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 27, 2021

Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Teach Writing with Tech. Experiment with a wide variety of available digital writing tools to help your students develop their inner writer. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.

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Internet Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Writing 159

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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Languages Language Assignments Reading 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Teach Writing with Tech. Experiment with a wide variety of available digital writing tools to help your students develop their inner writer. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.

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Blended Learning Teaching Learning Internet 159

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2023

5 Surprising Ways Homeschoolers Can Use Canva for Learning and Fun Explore how your homeschoolers can use Canva to enhance their learning, graphic design, and tech skills to level up their assignments. With this feature, they can quickly add creativity to projects, presentations, classroom activities, and assignments.

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Assignments Learning Science History 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 9, 2020

Regardless of whether the assignment lacked a citation, the citation method was wrong, or the student didn’t cite the correct source, a plagiarism checker could have fixed that. On top of that, when all assignments equally go through a plagiarism check, the competition becomes fair again.

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Plagiarism Academic Integrity Students Assignments 156

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Aliza Strassman , a second-grade general education teacher, leveraged the educational technology specialist at her school and her knowledge of best practices under Universal Design for Learning (UDL, a framework for designing inclusive classrooms) to create a technology-based approach to creative writing, publishing and peer feedback.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2019

So much of what we do in education (and in life) can be improved by slowing down, breathing, and thinking about the “why” before the “how” Classroom Change I used to feel a lot of urgency around writing instruction, particularly when it came to skills that students would be held accountable for on standardized assessments.

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Blended Learning Education Essay Writing 123

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

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 97

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

These improvised or newly created tabletop games do have to go through a fair bit of testing before being introduced as a lesson plan. The assignment itself could be simple — like using Legoss to build a bridge — but is tied to an activity like writing. I get a lot more writing out of them in this way,” Miller says.

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Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 215

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Rubrics and guidelines can help maintain consistency and fairness in evaluation. In most humanities courses that involve reflective writing, e-portfolios can be seamlessly integrated into the coursework. In most humanities courses that involve reflective writing, e-portfolios can be seamlessly integrated into the coursework.

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Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 126

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2020

Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Teach Writing with Tech. fair use/public domain. Certificate. Certificate.

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Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Instructors Writing 108

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I’ve had my share of conversations about how to AI-proof written assignments, and explored some ways we might lean our activities more directly into the weaknesses of chatbots. If AI can write a student’s paper, or handle their responsibilities on the discussion board, what else can it do?

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Feedback Writing Intelligence Essay 124

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Even in our school, when assignments are handed back in class, students still rush to ask their classmates, “What did you get?” How can I set up rules, processes, coaching and supportive systems that are centered in fairness and accessibility? A rush of emotions shuffles through the crowd.

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Motivation Students Middle School Middle School 178