Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2017

For Abby Longcor, Senior Director of the Tech Challenge, that’s what really sets the program apart: the interdisciplinary approach to engineering. “We 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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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. Here is one example from an AI reflective assignment that I tried out in my classes, followed by some other actionable strategies you may want to try out.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2019

We were given freedom to implement non-traditional practices such as design thinking, while maintaining those that are tried and true like document-based essay writing. In fact, we still talk regularly and are currently co-writing a book about the impact relationships have on education. Anya was one of them. She was a top student.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

The ACT has seen the writing on the wall—and it doesn’t look good. Given the variety of ways in which high school GPAs were assigned or used during the pandemic, a traditional understanding of high school GPA may not fit grades assigned during this time.” Its reasoning? Sanchez, an ACT researcher who co-authored the report.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2019

Building a Space That Amplifies Innovation and Connection Lassonde Studios evolved out of a $25 million dollar gift from investor, philanthropist, and University of Utah alumnus Pierre Lassonde to spur entrepreneurship in a student-focused and interdisciplinary manner. “We Normally you write the program and then design the building.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 17, 2023

Seeber in The Slow Professor write that faculty are in a state of “time poverty” (2016, p. Faced with the stress of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to design assignments to outwit ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that can write essays, or figure out how to get students to come to virtual office hours.

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eLearning Interdisciplinary Plagiarism Assignments 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 17, 2023

Seeber in The Slow Professor write that faculty are in a state of “time poverty” (2016, p. Faced with the stress of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to design assignments to outwit ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that can write essays, or figure out how to get students to come to virtual office hours.

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eLearning Interdisciplinary Plagiarism Assignments 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns. The most time consuming or emotionally taxing items can be processed via prompts.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Simple active learning techniques such as a quick temperature check or low stakes writing activity (Lang, 2021) can allow space for students to express their feelings, particularly when discussing challenging or emotive material, which simultaneously builds empathy and inclusion. Padlet is a good digital tool.

Activities 111

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

These courses are geared towards supporting freshmen in their transition to college by introducing them to academic discourse and college-level writing and research, among other skills. Choose an interdisciplinary topic for broader appeal Freshmen often have not yet decided what their major would be, nor should they!

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Simple active learning techniques such as a quick temperature check or low stakes writing activity (Lang, 2021) can allow space for students to express their feelings, particularly when discussing challenging or emotive material, which simultaneously builds empathy and inclusion. Padlet is a good digital tool.

Activities 98

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With tools such as Wakelet, ELL students can write in their native language and teachers can translate on their own. This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work. Holzweiss said she avoids outdated book report questions and formats.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 7, 2025

Weve included tips for classroom use and a range of subjects to interest every writer in your classroom, no matter their writing skills. Write a short note to a music artist about something they should change about their music. Write a paragraph to convince someone in class to try an activity you love. What about the worst?

High School 52

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

If one student is working at a very challenging level, and another is working at a much more basic level, and they both do well on the assignment, should they get the same grade? All of (the teachers) are assessing reading artifacts, writing artifacts, research artifacts, Messer explains, with the same rubric across our building.

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Learning Knowledge Grades Feedback 74

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

While we certainly share these concerns, we do remain relatively optimistic about one aspect of higher education: learning to write. From the moment ChatGPT hit the scene, articles proclaimed the death of the college essay , and students have begun questioning the need to develop skills in writing. literature). literature).

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

While we certainly share these concerns, we do remain relatively optimistic about one aspect of higher education: learning to write. From the moment ChatGPT hit the scene, articles proclaimed the death of the college essay , and students have begun questioning the need to develop skills in writing. literature). literature).

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Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 105

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This year, one of the topics for the 10th grade final paper was "violence"—assigned before George Floyd’s murder. Raheen weaves in the history of the Emancipation Proclamation, which legally freed Black slaves, but, as he writes, “does not mean that they were treated equally” to whites.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s a moment when XQ Institute’s agenda — that schools should offer more project-based learning, allow more flexibility in their schedules, and assign classwork more explicitly connected to career paths that interest students — may excite education leaders searching for solutions. For example, nearly half of D.C. It was exciting.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

About 125 students and a faculty team that teaches core classes, such as English, math, science and social ­studies, are assigned exclusively to each neighborhood. “It It becomes a school within a school,” Cryer says. Students move back and forth all day in their neighborhoods to get their projects done,” Cryer says.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 6, 2025

Many children, when left alone for even 30 minutes, naturally gravitate toward building, sketching, writing, performing, or storytelling. Try this: Boredom Bins: Keep a box filled with crafts, puzzles, or prompts (Invent your own planet or Write a comic book) that they can choose from when bored. Instead, give them space.

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