eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. Clicking on the Brisk extension lets teachers see the reading level of any text on the internet. Duolingo , a popular language-learning app, has literally been using AI for years.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2024

In 2023, the internet is likely near the top of those concerns. However, they may still need to remotely access school websites or learning modules for homework, group assignments, or to check their grades. This usually includes pornographic images, hate images or speech, and threatening language.

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eSchool News

JULY 31, 2024

Online learning, for example, requires constant connectivity–should the network go down, students will have no way of accessing learning materials or turning in assignments. Network infrastructure is at the heart of these modern technologies, enabling the resources and devices teachers and their students use daily.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

Wouldn’t teaching fluency a foreign language be the ultimate means to prepare students for a diverse and multicultural world? The internet provides resources for our students to learn a second language, and it also facilitates the teachers’ processes of evaluation.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2023

But for those without digital skills or access to a computer and an internet connection, it was a very different story. During the pandemic, the term ‘homework gap’ was used to describe children without reliable or any access to the internet and appropriate digital devices and who were unable to complete their assignments.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This would not be possible without the efforts of our Information Technology Department successfully providing all of our students with Chromebooks and internet access during the pandemic shutdown. Ronald Taylor, Superintendent of the Schools of South Orange and Maplewood.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2023

But for those without digital skills or access to a computer and an internet connection, it was a very different story. During the pandemic, the term ‘homework gap’ was used to describe children without reliable or any access to the internet and appropriate digital devices and who were unable to complete their assignments.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2016

For some students, leaving their school’s campus means leaving internet access behind – and all that comes with it. Our laptop initiative provides the hardware and software for secondary students to complete homework assignments and collaborate digitally. Enter the STAR program. Community links.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Upon the release of ChatGPT in the fall of 2022, we noticed that some of our students had suddenly become “experts” at synthesizing research and organizing their term papers, often resulting in perfect scores on their written assignments. This technology can be reversed too, assisting English-speaking students in foreign language acquisition.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

The new programs also have increased training for leading special student populations, including students with disabilities, English language learners and early childhood students. The need for high-speed broadband internet in every classroom in the U.S. Approximately 70,000 of Arizona’s K-12 students are ELLs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. Libraries Close, Internet Access Ends There have been several studies about how the lack of fast home broadband has hurt kids’ access to online learning during school closures.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This enables the instructor to assign coursework that keeps their students moving forward on their unique learning path. ALEKS gives instructors the flexibility to assign homework, share curated content such as videos, review student progress and provide support anytime, anywhere.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The internet is awash in surveys touting the inseparable connection between kids and technology. I’m thinking of something like a wiring system for an internet network—that’s complex to me.” But first she has them examine the role formal and informal language plays in their own writing. “I Where was your conventional language?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English. With tools such as Wakelet, ELL students can write in their native language and teachers can translate on their own. Instead, she includes prompts such as, “If you threw a dinner party, which character in this book would you invite?”

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2018

The internet fuels classroom innovation in schools across the country, but experts fear the Federal Communications Commission’s recent repeal of net neutrality rules jeopardizes that support. The big digital publishers will pay for the faster internet. Sun, 01/28/2018 - 19:54. But where is that cost going to land? Content Subtype.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

If students use the internet, they must be familiar with the rights and responsibilities required to be good digital citizens. internet safety. At the completion of this course, you will be able to: Know how to blend digital citizenship into lesson plans that require the Internet. Email me at askatechteacher@gmail.com.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

At stake is whether it is even possible to tame so-called “large language models” like ChatGPT, which are usually trained with information drawn from the internet and are designed to spit out answers that fit predictable patterns rather than hew strictly to reality. And they’re testing the approach in three online courses this summer.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We look at examples of output from large language models (LLMs) and critique how well it did with the responses. This was the epitome of knowledge and learning before the internet became widely available. Have students reflect on the usefulness and validity of AI to their assignments and understanding.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

language usage. When students use the internet, remind them of their rights and responsibilities. how to use the internet. taskbar disappeared, can’t find a program, internet window too small). how to understand domain-specific language associated with technology, i.e., ‘cloud’. how to use the internet.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Whether educators are teaching students from their classrooms or at home, they can maintain a high-quality science program, engage students online in three-dimensional learning, and continue to support English language arts and math. A video is included for teachers to walk through these with the students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

With Zoom, for example, students might experience harmful or obscene visuals during “ Zoombombing ”—internet trolling during video conferencing. alternative keyboard input, text resizing, language complexity), through these initial reviews my students discovered that far too many digital tools are not fully accessible.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It sounds too simple when I read the dozens of articles that fill the internet so I asked the AI to tell me what it was: “ChatGPT is a computer program that generates text based on what you type to it. It uses advanced language processing to understand your prompt and respond with relevant, coherent text. Highlighted Parts.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These face-to-face classes provide a counterpoint to the flexibility and independence of the digital core curriculum, where subjects like math and language arts are taught, which allows students to apply what they learn online in collaborative, project-based learning experiences. Use of outside spaces wherever possible.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Just as the technological revolution of the printing press democratized the authorship and distribution of books, so too does social media and the internet allow for more voices to be heard and for a wide variety of authors—including our students—to connect with audiences around the world. engagement and passion. engagement and passion.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Random assignment is intended to ensure the treatment and comparison groups are the same along both measurable characteristics such as test scores as well as unmeasured characteristics such as motivation to learn. This could mean that the groups of students have similar scores on a state test or a pretest relevant to the study.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 27, 2021

If students use the internet, they must be familiar with the rights and responsibilities required to be good digital citizens. internet safety. At the completion of this course, you will be able to: Know how to blend digital citizenship into lesson plans that require the Internet. Email me at askatechteacher@gmail.com.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Districts distributed devices and internet providers allowed free connections. Students often came into my program from all over the world with limited English language skills in their late teens, which makes them at risk for aging out of earning a traditional high school diploma.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

suffer on the no-internet side of the digital divide , according to the Federal Communications Commission. This is especially true for students from lower-income families. Roughly 21 million people in the U.S. This, understandably, presented a grave concern for business and industry, legislators, educators and ultimately students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2025

To my surprise, I was shocked at my students' low levels of tech and Internet literacy. Over the past three years, I have seen my students gaps in knowledge regarding Internet use and other basic digital skills as a serious and overlooked problem.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2017

For the first time, many students are learning in classrooms equipped with access to broadband internet and mobile computing devices. It is something you see in their body language, feel in the tone of their voice and follow because passion is contagious and, at least for now, it’s very human.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Dually certified in special education and English Language Arts, I teach an ELA inclusion class to 11th and 12th graders, which means I serve students with and without Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) in the same setting. Last year during a critical lesson with high-stakes due dates, the internet on the entire Eastern seaboard went down.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2021

If students use the internet, they must be familiar with the rights and responsibilities required to be good digital citizens. internet safety. At the completion of this course, you will be able to: Know how to blend digital citizenship into lesson plans that require the Internet. Email me at askatechteacher@gmail.com.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels. Sharing other people’s thoughts, jokes and artwork on the Internet is an everyday act. Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 16, 2022

While people will still be Zooming for some time, taking time to create, produce, and implement asynchronous videos or asynchronous video assignments for your online class can yield multiple benefits. Students can interact with one another through asynchronous video assignments. Internet and Higher Education, 13 (1-2), 5-9.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

At Rooted, students take courses that earn them certifications that can make them competitive for high paying entry level jobs alongside traditional subjects like math and language arts to help close the massive wealth gap between Black and white students. Schools scrambled to get internet access for students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

On this week’s EdSurge Podcast , we’re exploring these questions and going inside this world of assignment-writers for hire. At the time, the online cheating business was sort of just kicking off, in the early days of the Wild West internet. That's commonplace across the board—to protect yourself with the proper legal language.

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