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Why Sending Students Home with Writing Assignments Might Not Be The Best Idea

Catlin Tucker

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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Easy to find, not always true: Helping students evaluate AI-generated content

eSchool News

When cleaning up some materials on a backup drive, I came across an article I wrote for the September/October 1997 issue of Book Report , a journal directed to secondary school librarians. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom? The digital tide has swept in new tools, habits, and expectations.

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College Students Are Doing Less Homework. Should Instructors Change How They Assign It?

Edsurge

One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. With the flexibility that came with pandemic-era school, they’re not used to firm deadlines or strict grading. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments.

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Crafting environments where students with autism thrive

eSchool News

graduate with a high school diploma compared to 86 percent of their non-autistic peers, and that gap speaks for itself, but we have the tools to close it. Throughout my career as a behavior therapist, classroom teacher, and Head of School, Ive worked closely with students on the spectrum and their families.

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AVID has huge benefits for high school students

eSchool News

public high schools has a positive effect on students’ social networks, psycho-social outcomes, and health behaviors. Academic tracking” is a common practice in high schools through which lower-performing students are clustered with others of similar academic achievement. The findings, published Dec. The findings, published Dec.

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The dangers of attempting to ‘Instant Pot’ educational progress

eSchool News

Students who would have been performing below standards and assigned intervention support are now being told they are passing. Minnesota, Florida, and North Carolina are rolling back high school math or English requirements. Itll be the academic equivalent of passing off a microwaved Hot Pocket as your grandmas homemade lasagna.

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A look at AI use in schools across the country

eSchool News

Of the 50 percent of surveyed educators who use generative AI, 72 percent plan to use it even more in the next school year; 76 percent believe generative AI is at least somewhat valuable to their work, and 73 percent say it saves them time. Iredell-Statesville Schools allows some use among teachers, but not students.”

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