eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

As a digital learning team, we were assigned the responsibility of exploring the full spectrum of AI in education. Our AI guiding principles started this process of building an ethical AI mindset, which provided pathways to critically question AI in our system.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Feedback is an essential yet time-intensive task that artificial intelligence (AI) can effectively scale, ensuring every student receives the targeted support they need to confidently apply their learning. Then they click publish, and the assignment will appear in Google Classroom for students!

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

We might imagine a video avatar answering campus questions in the shape of a college mascot or historical figure." Bryan Alexander We might imagine a video avatar answering campus questions in the shape of a college mascot or historical figure.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Understanding AI and its role in media Artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the media landscape, influencing how information is created, disseminated, and consumed. Educators can integrate these tools into assignments, teaching students to question the reliability of sources, understand biases, and discern facts from misinformation.

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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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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not new. Students and instructors were learning to ask new questions in new ways. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests. A fellow instructor suggested I try audio or video presentation assignments instead. I embraced this a novel learning process.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. Why College Instructors Matter: A Student’s Perspective I had a conversation with one of my students recently about this exact question. 2023, August 25 th ). Faculty Focus.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These challenges, however, aren’t indicative of a student’s intelligence or potential. Planners that break down assignments, scaffolded note-taking templates, or even a syllabus can make all the difference in setting clear expectations. A little kindness and asking a simple question like, “How’s it going?”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Since the public release of ChatGPT in December 2022, educators have faced the challenge of effectively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their teaching. The key question is: how can we transform AI from a potential source of plagiarism into a valuable educational resource? link] Garca-Pealvo, F.

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Ethics Plagiarism Intelligence Education 93

Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Students regularly shared they were not interested in using a generative intelligence site to complete their work—they were not ready to trust AI with their learning, and more specifically, course grades.

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Intelligence Critical Thinking Learning Assignments 128

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

While ChatGPT seems to have sprung up overnight to dominate current headlines, legislative discussions, and professional debates—ranging from doomsday predictions to practical celebrations related to improved efficiency with menial labor tasks—the introduction of this online Artificial Intelligence (AI) program can be traced back to 2018.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 12, 2025

At the end of this article, you’ll feel good about giving both sides of this discussion a voice: Why a Term Paper Writing Service Is the Best Way to Assist with Your Assignments Some assignments are manageableyou knock them out in an hour, no stress. The real question isnt why use a term paper writing service?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 6, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a tool that is used in the classroom. An additional AI prompt example to include with the previous example might be: The case study is to include an assignment portion that allows faculty to measure the students performance. Make sure the case study is real-world relevant. References Afzaal, M.,

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Intelligence Study Evaluation Learning Outcomes 115

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. But even with all this excitement, there are still many questions to answer. Rather than relying on this score alone, his teacher called him to discuss the assignment.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Plagiarism 241

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 115

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Key points: Edtech tools can provide an important bridge between teachers and their goals Can artificial intelligence help teachers improve? The availability of tech tools, including those with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, continues to grow – as do their potential applications in the classroom.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Worries about using AI for academic help and answering questions led to many discussions on its role in the classroom. It can facilitate collaboration among students in different locations through intelligent matchmaking based on skills and interests. The more important question is, when will these tools become ubiquitous in schools?

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. Inquiry about integrity begins with the question Does this work accurately represent the students skills and understandings?”

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

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

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Students regularly shared they were not interested in using a generative intelligence site to complete their work—they were not ready to trust AI with their learning, and more specifically, course grades.

Intelligence 110

Intelligence Critical Thinking Learning Assignments 110

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not new. Students and instructors were learning to ask new questions in new ways. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests. A fellow instructor suggested I try audio or video presentation assignments instead. I embraced this a novel learning process.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. A video demo of the latest version of ChatGPT tutoring a student that went viral on YouTube has brought fresh attention to this question.

Intelligence 204

Intelligence Teaching Assistants Laboratory Assignments 204

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2024

The expectations of pre-service teachers and aspiring school administrators have a new focus that includes educator retention and artificial intelligence (AI). They simply submit questions like, “Create differentiated activities about WWII?” AI is ever-changing, so what we find scary today, we may find helpful tomorrow.

Intelligence 107

Intelligence Education Plagiarism Writing 107

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

The unusual idea seems in some ways like a publicity stunt to call attention to a the academic major it offers in artificial intelligence — and local TV news stations pounced on the notion that nonhuman classmates would be participating side-by-side in hybrid college classes with T-shirt-clad young people.

Intelligence 213

Intelligence Syllabus Feedback Assignments 213

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2024

The expectations of pre-service teachers and aspiring school administrators have a new focus that includes educator retention and artificial intelligence (AI). They simply submit questions like, “Create differentiated activities about WWII?” AI is ever-changing, so what we find scary today, we may find helpful tomorrow.

Intelligence 102

Intelligence Education Plagiarism Writing 102

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Such a position can help frame classroom assignments as interdisciplinary tasks and projects that require knowledge from other classes and other subjects. It can compel students to tap into different intelligences and develop the habit of synthesizing knowledge. Every day we get closer to answering those questions.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Maybe they forget to turn in assignments, have trouble organizing their thoughts, or feel overwhelmed by fast-paced lessons. Many students face challenges not due to a lack of intelligence but because they struggle with organization, time management, and emotional regulation. Social-emotional learning remains a priority.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 144

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Dan Meyer: That's a great question with a very contested answer. So then, when it comes to the assumptions behind personalized learning, what do you question as the biggest, most potentially damaging assumption? The biggest assumption I question is the degree to which technology replaces the word that sets off alarm bells (“teachers”).

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Do anthropomorphized forms of artificial intelligence serve students better than hidden bots? How do we create frameworks for the ethical creation of artificial intelligence? The chat started with a healthy dose of skepticism about the potential misuses of artificial intelligence. Now that's an idea. DLNChat I would say often.

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Intelligence Ethics Education Instructors 101

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. It's complex.”

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

As artificial intelligence, and in particular ChatGPT, infiltrates higher education, faculty remain on edge. How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? The question is always how technology is used. The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. Will technology induce cheating?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

As artificial intelligence, and in particular ChatGPT, infiltrates higher education, faculty remain on edge. How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? The question is always how technology is used. The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. Will technology induce cheating?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 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 338