Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2020

Thousands of school districts, responsible for millions of students, are being put to the test in how they respond and stay resilient during this global pandemic. We’ve gathered resources and developed assignments that will be available both online and in hard copy.

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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. This includes on-demand tutoring along with AI tools that offer feedback on written work.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Students can study, learn, communicate with teachers and collaborate on class assignments to and from school and extra-curricular excursions. Advanced technology has made internet connectivity in the classroom fundamental to teaching and learning,” said Miami Dade County Superintendent of Schools Alberto M.

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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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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Born in the era of VHS a generation before the Internet became mainstream, Blockbuster built its business catering to customers who liked being able to drop by one of its retail stores on a whim to pick out a new release or a well-known classic. Consider the example of Blockbuster Video.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

Less Testing, More Feedback When we finally do recover, we should throw out what the pandemic showed us wasn’t important. Parents and educators have long pushed for focusing less on grades and tests, in favor of spending more time on giving student feedback. After all, if it isn’t a necessity now, how essential was it to begin with?

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Feedback Schools Internet Testing 218

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Building quizzes, tests, and lesson plans from curriculum materials: Fran Bellas, a professor at Universidade da Coruña in Spain, recommends teachers use ChatGPT as an assistant in crafting quizzes, exams and lesson plans for classes.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

The problem is to balance the reality of today’s pressure for test scores and required teacher evaluation with the changes that can be anticipated during the next two decades. As the internet drives down the value of a teacher’s knowledge, their ability to personalize learning with resources from around the world will increase.

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Questions Teachers Internet Knowledge 279

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

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. We’re still testing kids just like we did in the late 90s.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Most of these homes dont have internet, so now you have another problem, because its 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. Were still testing kids just like we did in the late 90s.

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Internet Accessibility Local Government Activities 280

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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Science Education Internet Skills 285

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. All tests are registered trademarks of their respective owners. Ronald Taylor, Superintendent of the Schools of South Orange and Maplewood.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Limit Homework or Make it Optional Imagine applying for a job, and the hiring manager informs you that in addition to a full workday in the office, you’ll be assigned three more hours of work every night. And studies have shown that more than two hours of daily homework can be counterproductive , yet many teachers assign more.

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Exams Students Testing Learning 198

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. Use the Grandma Test when posting online content - would you want your grandma to see what you post?

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Learning Internet Assignments Fairness 205

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Kami demonstrated its all-in-one digital learning platform.

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STEM Math Internet Mobile Devices 335

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Overnight, essentially, Canvas usage doubled—everything from the number of users to the number of assignments to the number of videos uploaded.” The dashboard allows educators to monitor student progress in real-time when students complete asynchronous assignments on Nearpod.

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Assignments Mobile Devices Testing Hybrid Learning 205

eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Employees automatically receive an email featuring a link to the online training course, which was assigned to them based on their job description. They can then access the training courses anytime, anywhere—as long as they have an internet connection. Online training is more convenient.

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Laboratory Internet Assignments Testing 185

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Without reliable access to the internet and devices like laptops or cell phones, college students probably aren’t going to succeed in online learning. While some students haven’t had full access to computers or the internet, others have discovered that their laptops are too old or too slow to adequately handle the tools they’ve been assigned.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2021

The problem, critics say, is that the systems often lead to false-positives, add stress to the test-taking process and invade privacy. We believe that only a human can best determine whether test-taker behavior is suspicious or violates test rules,” said Scott McFarland, CEO of ProctorU, in a statement issued by the company.

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Exams Distance Learning Academic Integrity Testing 176

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2015

CanaryFlow is a classroom workflow platform that makes it easy for K-12 teachers to create lessons, add and grade assignments, upload resources, comment on student work or class activities, and schedule events. Features for teachers include: ability to collect, grade, distribute and collect assignments and materials.

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Assignments Classroom Management Testing Internet 144

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

Jason Glass said: I have an assignment for you. That “those” kids “need” a test-prep education so they can get higher test scores and close our “achievement gap.”. Equity is about much more than so-called ‘achievement gaps’ on standardized tests of low-level knowledge and procedures… Related Posts.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We learned what we could from the books we had access to and memorized facts to regurgitate on tests. This was the epitome of knowledge and learning before the internet became widely available. Many other pedagogical theories have stood the test of time, but these deeply impact how I approach my classrooms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Google Classroom , the company’s online tool that lets teachers, students and parents manage assignments and discussions, will be getting a small facelift as part of 12 updates that Google is announcing at this week’s ISTE conference, an annual K-12 educational technology expo. In other words, the most recent activity sits at the top.)

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

And they’re testing the approach in three online courses this summer. 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.

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Teaching Assistants Teaching Textbooks Lecturing 186

Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Because schools and teachers are barred from asking students to submit assignments physically, Zeng instead received photos of drawings sent by parents. Other art classes can test parents as much as students, as is the case for Zoe, a college senior who lives in Luoyang, in central China.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2024

These often have consequences in education, from an increase in cheating on assignments enabled by prose-spewing chatbots, to experiments that bring AI into classrooms as teaching assistants or even as students. Even while schools are stuck dealing with deep challenges, COVID-19 pandemic relief funding is running its course.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Teachers could also share learning resources, tests and assignments to both the classes at the same time, ensuring that both the classes were at the same level. Audio and video sessions were recorded in the city school using camera and wireless headsets, and transmitted to rural classes in real-time.

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Textbooks Lecturing Schools Blended Learning 156

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Districts distributed devices and internet providers allowed free connections. Yet my students’ successes indicate that the conditions that often make school difficult for marginalized students—such as required minutes per course, attendance requirements, traditional testing—are neutralized or at least equalized in a competency-based system.

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Social Studies Learning English Students 217

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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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2019

Students and instructors can run originality reports to check any written assignments done in Google Doc against the hundreds of billions of web pages, and tens of millions of books, that Google has indexed over the years. Those interested in testing it out early can sign up here. Screenshot of Google’s originality report.

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Plagiarism Instructors Assignments Textbooks 158

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

Spotty internet service makes remote learning hard for many college students. One student described relying on a laptop that could not handle exam-proctoring software, causing the student to miss a test. So does lacking reliable access to a computer. Student interviews from the EDUCAUSE report offer glimpses of how this plays out.

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Students Lecturing Assignments Exams 201

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Changing attitudes toward demonstrating learning : There is a rising groundswell of discussion around assessing, documenting, communicating and assigning value to student learning. Analytics refers to the process of analyzing data collected about student learning and the opportunity to leverage data to inform instructional decision making.

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Ethics Intelligence Communication Motivation 192

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Attention spans are shorter for younger students than their older peers, who also need less parental involvement to complete assignments. That seems to be referring to actual screen time or formal assessment or assignment work.” If they’re studying for a test, a lot of kids might want to study more.”

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Distance Learning Schools Assignments Math 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Here’s what a joint study from Legends of Learning and Vanderbilt University found: “…students who played the games outperformed their peers on standardized tests. Note: There is an option where parents can assign work to their children but this requires a fee-based account.

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