eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

The assignment? They werent just completing an assignment–they were crafting their voices, practicing communication skills, and taking pride in their ability to share something they loved in a second language. Literacy skills in action Behind each of these videos lies a powerful range of literacy development.

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Culture Reading Students Language 241

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

These arent just soft skills–they are essential for navigating school and life. In many schools, SEL is integrated into daily instruction through explicit lessons or classroom routines that focus on self-awareness, emotional management, and relationship skills.

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Students Learning Styles Assignments Communication 228

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

Teachers are transitioning away from question-and-answer assignments or straightforward essays — in favor of projects. Becoming ‘AI-Proof’ During this past school year, Distefano says her students’ use of AI to cheat on their assignments has reached new heights. It’s not especially high-tech or even particularly ingenious. she says. “We

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Assignments English Essay Teachers 205

eSchool News

MAY 9, 2025

Key points: Students need more than digital access; they need guidance 5 AI tools for classroom creativity A new era for teachers as AI disrupts instruction For more news on navigating AI, visit eSNs Digital Learning hub Finding accurate information has long been a cornerstone skill of librarianship and classroom research instruction.

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Evaluation Ethics Academic Integrity Assignments 270

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” I disagree, especially when it comes to assignments designed to provide students with opportunities to review concepts and practice specific skills. Second, asking students to do something meaningful with their work creates accountability and can motivate them to complete assignments.

Teachers 544

Teachers Motivation Assignments Students 544

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Then there’s the sudden temptation of ChatGPT and other new AI tools, which can make cheating on assignments easy and often undetectable. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. Some students don’t understand how important assignments are, Beckett says.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 201

eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

That means students this year did not need to achieve the same mastery of knowledge and skills as kids in previous years. Students who would have been performing below standards and assigned intervention support are now being told they are passing.

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Education Math Exams English 296

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Such a position can help frame classroom assignments as interdisciplinary tasks and projects that require knowledge from other classes and other subjects. Students must be given opportunities where they are “at play” with technology and are challenged to apply their creativity alongside their problem-solving skills.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2025

Navigating a clear path forward means equipping educators with solutions to integrate AI in ways that preserve critical thinking skills, and prepare students for the demands of an AI-driven future. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom?

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Education Critical Thinking Students Ethics 296

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. Sure, the skills of writing may have been practiced, but so what? To what end?

Assignments 206

Assignments Essay History Social Studies 206

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Today’s digital-savvy students welcomed ChatGPT with open arms and began using it for writing assignments. No wonder: This language model algorithm is smart enough to produce logical and grammatically correct texts for any prompt. The issue here is not only about the academic integrity violation.

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Writing Skills Plagiarism Teaching 246

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. When teachers provide students with the rubric at the start of any assignment or task that will be assessed, the rubric serves as a roadmap. How does using rubrics benefit students?

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Fairness Assignments Feedback Evaluation 545

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 330

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. Teens in the survey were also concerned about how using AI might affect their ability to develop critical thinking skills, says Jennifer Rubin, a senior researcher at foundry10 who helped lead the study.

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Essay Ethics Fairness Assignments 157

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 1, 2020

Their school days tend to be a blur of information, assignments, and activities. The goal is to get students thinking about their skills and how they have changed or developed over time. Students rarely recognize how much progress they are making over the course of a semester or school year. AnalyzeGrowth. AnalyzeGrowth.

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Students Motivation Assignments Activities 546

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 27, 2021

Assignment Checklist. These are often the same things that teachers outline in the initial description of the assignment, task, or project. I believe rubrics should be provided at the start of any assignment, task, or project that will be assessed using a rubric. but to avoid making notes on the other student’s work.

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Feedback Peer Review Assignments Online Learning 546

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 23, 2021

As I support teachers navigating this teaching assignment, I’m honest about the challenges that the concurrent classroom presents. I am also solution-oriented, so this webinar is about making it work. After all, education is one “make it work” moment after another!

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Teaching Blended Learning Assignments Online Learning 532

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Gemini] really empowers the students to make sure that theyre gaining these skills so that they can take them with them to whatever role they end up being, whether thats postsecondary or in the world of work, says teacher Tara Potter.

Education 236

Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 236

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It is a process where students evaluate their work, reflecting on what they’ve learned, how well they’ve understood complex concepts, how much progress they’ve made toward mastering key skills, and where they may need to invest time and energy to improve their concept knowledge and skill set.

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Evaluation Assignments Failure Discussions 428

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

This sparks greater interest in literature, enabling teachers to facilitate meaningful interactions that inspire more compelling classroom discussions that increase critical thinking skills, delivering better learning outcomes. Gale In Context databases have a long history of supporting academic achievement and future-ready skill development.

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Critical Thinking Learning Outcomes High School High School 246

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

One way to help students prepare for an online discussion is with a planning document that is shared like any other assignment at the start of the week. In addition to establishing norms, teachers will want to employ facilitation skills to keep the conversation moving without overpowering or dominating the discussion.

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Discussions Participation Questions Assignments 546

Catlin Tucker

MAY 20, 2023

How can formative assessment data help students to develop their metacognitive skills? These informal assessments provide information to the teacher about students’ understanding of the material being covered and the skills being introduced. Formative assessments are ongoing assessments embedded throughout the learning process.

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Metacognitive Skills Universal Design Blended Learning Evaluation 482

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 467

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Do they feel the work assigned is interesting, engaging, and relevant? They are navigating the experiences, assignments, routines, and workflows that we are assigning and using. What has been your favorite activity, assignment, or routine? So, if students are not doing the asynchronous work, we need to ask them why.

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Learning Blended Learning Assignments Feedback 544

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

These features empower teams to enhance their robots’ actions with sound effects, character voices, or background music, deepening the storytelling experience while building additional technical skills. In the second phase of the lesson, teams rotate and are assigned to another group’s obstacle course.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Collaborative Learning Communication 173

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators can even tap student enthusiasm for new technology by assigning–and assessing student learning using–multimedia projects. Secret 1: Multimedia assignments. These types of assignments are also harder to farm out to AI! Motivate students to act by incorporating action planning into assignments.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 344

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In a previous post, I described how blended learning models could make this challenging teaching assignment more manageable ; however, that post assumes that teachers are familiar with blended learning. A present–pause–discuss format allows the teacher to focus on introducing one concept or skill at a time.

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Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Feedback is critical for helping students enhance their conceptual knowledge and skills. Wiggins says the best feedback is: Goal-oriented or referenced: Feedback should clarify the goals of the assignment or task, guiding students toward a clear desired result or outcome.

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Feedback Coaching Assignments Motivation 348

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If the learning objective is for students to craft a strong argument, you can provide them with different levels of support and different ways of demonstrating that skill. First, when designing any learning experience or learning cycle, I encourage teachers to identify target standards or skills that will frame and focus their design work.

Blended Learning 521

Blended Learning Essay Feedback Writing 521

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

Yet, reading is like any skill that we can improve with practice. Their approach contrasts with classic reading comprehension questions, which students typically respond to after completing a reading assignment. The more effectively they engage their higher-order thinking skills, the more likely they are to make meaning as they read.

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Reading Activities Learning Discussions 546

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Many teachers already are rethinking assessments and assignments to shift the question from how students will use AI to cheat, to how students can learn to use AI responsibly. Assignments that ask students to produce answers using AI can encourage students to critically consider the information provided.

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Plagiarism Education Assignments Essay 333

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. This also teaches students to hone their self-directed learning skills as they own more of the responsibility for their learning.

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Teachers Art Feedback Writing 481

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

In todays technology-rich classrooms, digital literacy is becoming a foundational skill–students are learning to navigate devices, use educational software, and collaborate online. Every test score, attendance log, learning app, or digital assignment generates data. Our classrooms are data-rich, but are we data-literate?

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Ethics Education Culture Social Studies 305

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 12, 2025

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Assignments Writing Essay Critical Thinking 134

Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2025

For many counselors, the prevalence of children using social media to self-diagnose suggests a larger problem related to lasting social and emotional impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, unregulated virtual spaces and the importance of teaching media literacy skills. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in the U.K.

Ethics 164

Ethics Schools Students Skills 164

Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2023

How can pulling feedback into the classroom help students develop confidence and improve their self-regulation skills? Supports skill development and mastery of concepts. Supports skill development and mastery of concepts. Enhances metacognitive skills, such as self-regulation and self-monitoring.

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Feedback Metacognitive Skills Blended Learning Beliefs 423

Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

these are critical skills students need to develop if they are going to become expert learners who are motivated, resourceful, strategic, and capable of advocating for themselves. Instead of the teacher being the only source of information, support, or feedback, students develop the skills necessary to be resources for one another.

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Online Learning 521