Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Not only has the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots created concern about assigning writing, but myriad challenges exist when we send writing home with students. #1 As a result, writing assignments often fail to meet the psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness required for motivation.

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Assignments Writing Feedback Motivation 458

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework. The benefit of assigning video instruction for homework is that students can control the time, place, and pace of the learning experience when they watch the video at home.

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Blended Learning Students Assignments Lecturing 469

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 30, 2020

For teachers using StudySync in combination with Google Classroom, I’ve described three strategies that educators can use to capitalize on the activities in the StudySync First Read lesson plans to engage students in online discussions, collaborative research projects, and online vocabulary review. #1

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Collaborative Research Students Knowledge Assignments 370

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. And kids double down on digital reading—all in this Edtech Reports Recap. adults lost their main source of internet access as libraries started to shut down in March 2020.

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Reading Internet Accessibility English 189

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

Read part 1 and part 2. On the production side, other pedagogies cropped up, as teachers can now assign video assignments that turn students into the creators, letting them find their voices and learn technical skills that could apply to jobs. This is part 3. Digital video has taken the world by storm.

Assignments 163

Assignments Teaching Learning Lecturing 163

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. AudioPen is an AI-powered tool that converts voice notes into text that’s easy to read and ready to share with students and fellow teachers.

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Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 329

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment. It’s intimidating.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 324

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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Instructors Assignments Writing History 148

eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Additionally, these digital tools need to support the means of expression through written assignments, presentations, or discussions to make the learning environment as engaging as possible. Social annotation as an e-learning vehicle within UDL Social annotation tools can improve reading comprehension and student interaction.

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Learning Syllabus Universal Design Quizzes 300

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Generation Z, commonly defined as people born between 1996 and 2010, are known as digital natives because they have grown up using the Internet and other technologies (“What is Gen Z”, 2024). This assignment has four parts: Part I : An overview of the five leadership styles, where students understand, define, and analyze key characteristics.

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Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 115

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Workshops on internet and information literacy. As leaders, librarians are prepared to guide students through reading and research processes at the same time that they offer necessary support to teachers. This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 358

eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

The platform’s customization options enable me to design assignments that cater to each student’s unique learning needs, promoting a more inclusive and effective educational experience. This student often struggled with reading instructions and questions, which made it difficult to participate in the general education classroom.

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Special Education Skills Education Feedback 281

eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2015

Aside from the obvious benefits of offering a wide array of reading materials, school officials say the devices have also created a fresh opportunity to teach students how to research, create and apply their knowledge via the internet and Google applications.

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Skills eLearning Teaching Schools 276

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

How to know if a student uses AI to cheat on written assignments? We know that technologies affect how people read, write, and think. Brainstorm and generate essay topics While teachers often assign particular essay topics to students, sometimes a prompt says they are free to write on anything they want.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Academic Integrity 294

eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The company has gathered all the complexities of internet safety and distilled them into engaging, well-tested, curriculum-aligned, and beautifully structured lesson plans (created by teachers) for grades K–8. What Sesame Street did for children’s reading in 1969, Cyber Legends will do for children’s cyber safety in 2022 and beyond.”.

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Mobile Devices Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Students 314

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Generation Z, commonly defined as people born between 1996 and 2010, are known as digital natives because they have grown up using the Internet and other technologies (“What is Gen Z”, 2024). This assignment has four parts: Part I : An overview of the five leadership styles, where students understand, define, and analyze key characteristics.

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Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 100

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Research shows fewer students are starting the year prepared for math and ELA, fewer are on target to learn to read, and there are more gaps in phonics, and sophisticated math skill comprehension. Using Kami, teachers can create assignments with their LMS, share class-wide, and offer feedback in real time.

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STEM Math Internet Mobile Devices 335

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs. Our list of Must-Read K—12 IT Blogs includes a mixture of teachers, instructional technology specialists, IT leaders, administrators and consultants. If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013.

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Reading Science Gamification Coaching 154

eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. Most of these homes dont have internet, so now you have another problem, because its very expensive. Through one of our internet providers, families can also get internet access for $10 per month. Thats what this is designed to do.

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Internet Accessibility Local Government Activities 279

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A top Google leader said during Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference this summer that nearly 40 percent of young people—ages 18 to 24—are turning to visual-based social media platforms like TikTok or Instagram for their internet searches. As for crossover with their assignments? “I With TikTok, it goes back to that algorithm.

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Internet Assignments High School High School 197

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Instead, he crafted an entirely new curriculum that he felt would better resonate with students, a series of reading and writing assignments that looked at the stages of grief. “I Studies show that the pandemic caused a drop in test scores in reading and math, with the students who were already struggling showing the largest declines.

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Education Assignments Testing Study 213

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

You can read the full report, including the other five suggestions, here. Approximately 9 million low-income students lack both the hardware and the internet connectivity to enable virtual learning, which “represents a national emergency,” the authors of the report write. There is a place for both, the authors argue.

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Learning Internet Writing Failure 218

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Most of these homes don’t have internet, so now you have another problem, because it’s very expensive. Internet access is not affordable for all families, so that raises the question around whether this is about equitable access to technology or about affordability. In my opinion, the issue is beyond being equitable.

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Internet Accessibility Local Government Activities 305

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. Once on the internet, always on the internet - so can you live with the information online forever?

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Learning Internet Assignments Fairness 205

Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

During this time, I have tried to become more intentional about giving additional student feedback on projects and assignments the students are doing at home. Some students who may struggle to complete and submit online assignments are regulars during our virtual class meetings.

Feedback 218

Feedback Schools Internet Testing 218

EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

Millions of students lack the ability to access the internet from home — a problem compounded by increasing expectations from educators that students do so to complete homework and research. . teachers also assigned internet-based homework last year, according to the Pew Research Center. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Internet Mobile Devices Assignments Accessibility 153

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

I have read and loved them all. Read more from Emily here. I was especially struck by the show’s two-part series on “ The Paradox of Pleasure ,” which analyzed the challenges of coping with the addictive lures of the internet and other tech. Read more from Jeff here. I give “The Anthropocene Reviewed” five stars.

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Reading Essay Instructors Culture 142

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

The internet provides resources for our students to learn a second language, and it also facilitates the teachers’ processes of evaluation. For example, students may participate in interactive reading activities where they record their own voice to practice fluency.

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Technology Language Languages Internet 189

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

Keep assignments simple. Assignments should be described very clearly so that students can succeed. It can be tempting for teachers to assign lots of independent work. However, teachers should give assignments that are bite-sized and similar to what they would assign on-campus. Focus on healthy living.

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Assignments Learning Schools Quizzes 190

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

Once students are participating at some level, they’re doing things like reading a chapter book and stopping it [at a] cliffhanger, and you have to come back the next day to hear the next piece,” says Lovely. Teachers of older students are assigning group work and creating breakout chat rooms in Zoom. Another piece of the puzzle?

Learning 218

Learning Participation English Internet 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you read one other than for grading? Now think about the frequency with which you read online articles, blogs, social media posts or listen to podcasts that inspire you or provide new information and perspectives. Some criteria I use to develop assignments include: student agency. engagement and passion.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

First, she schedules two class meetings for social interaction, where her 22 second graders read aloud and play games. Next, she plans small-group reading and math sessions. Attention spans are shorter for younger students than their older peers, who also need less parental involvement to complete assignments. Others are vague.

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Distance Learning Schools Assignments Math 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This was the epitome of knowledge and learning before the internet became widely available. At one point, I completely removed reading responses because they weren’t working for me. Students turn in their reading responses before class, then get into small groups in class to discuss the reading.

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Teaching Instructors Knowledge Writing 208

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

With Zoom, for example, students might experience harmful or obscene visuals during “ Zoombombing ”—internet trolling during video conferencing. font size, spacing, picture dictionary, translation) and read aloud. Internet providers, like Comcast and Spectrum, started offering free Internet access to low-income families.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Expect them to read closely, but work quickly, and make decisions based on their knowledge of reliable websites.

Activities 202

Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 202

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. The need for high-speed broadband internet in every classroom in the U.S. Read more.

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