eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo, powered by ChatGPT technology, includes features meant to help students work through math and science problems, analyze text, chat with historical figures, navigate college admissions, and revise essays, among other features. It is also designed to help teachers create instructions for assignments and review student performance.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 258

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2017

He explains that writing an essay or report is a complex process that combines language production, memory retrieval and thinking ability. The act of handwriting does force an attention to the [writing] process,” says Dillon. Louis, insists that’s not the end of the story.

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Writing Essay Learning English 149

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. In your opinion, what sport gets too much attention? What sport should get more attention? If you had to start a career today, what career are you most qualified for?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Students who spent formative years learning online may be too nervous to raise a hand in class or have trouble paying attention. Offering multiple deadlines is helpful, she says — especially with essays — since she can get help on her rough draft and feel more confident about the final one.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 200

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Also, only some teachers have the time or money to invest in building courses with the functionality, attention to the user experience, and variety of hints and examples that a third-party software vendor can afford. Suppose Ella is working on 9th-grade English as a 10-year-old.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 234

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But DiMichele, an English teacher at Henry E. Lackey High School in Indian Head, Maryland, had never faced a challenge like the one she walked into this summer—a classroom full of students who had just failed ninth-grade English. Some of her students had never finished an essay, let alone crafted sparkling prose. You can write.

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Essay Feedback Writing English 99

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. The institution’s digital literacy specialist, Don Michael, says he would like to be able to test all students on digital skills before they enter college, and provide extra attention to those who need it.

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Teaching Culture Internet Students 203

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

in the thick of filling out college applications, that might mean putting off writing an admissions essay or sending in a transcript. It takes approximately four hours to complete all six “zones” in the course, including those that explore attention, idea expression, memory, organization and time management.

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Essay Students Quizzes Writing 156

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

To prepare students for the changing job market, schools need to focus even more attention on teaching higher-level thinking skills that can’t be automated—creativity, critical thinking, creative problem-solving and communication. AI can perform these simpler skills better, faster and cheaper.

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. Attention feels more frayed and fragile during live video lessons for all of us. Let’s be frank.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

With SEL, students not only experience less anxiety, less hyperactivity, and less aggression, they’re generally happier and more attentive, too. Social and emotional learning is most productive when all teachers are invested in the program. The impact on teachers is no less profound. SEL lesson for grades 6-8.

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Teachers Exams Schools Students 165

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative). It will also flag situations that warrant closer attention, such as instances where a draft receives starkly contrasting feedback from different students.

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 113

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

The company’s website was written in Chinese and marketed to students who did not speak English as their first language. Australia is paying a lot more attention to this than any other country in the world,” says Tricia Bertram Gallant, director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California at San Diego.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Attention 157

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using Wakelet, school librarians can work with librarians in their district–or even across the state or country–to draw attention to important resources in the library, offer research tips, and motivate students. Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English.

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Schools Language Languages Reading 246

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. For example, before an exam, I discuss how and why I would prepare differently for a multiple-choice versus an essay exam.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper?

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper?

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. For example, before an exam, I discuss how and why I would prepare differently for a multiple-choice versus an essay exam.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 96

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Example: An English teacher leads a group discussion on empathy and perspective-taking after reading a novel, fostering emotional intelligence skills that AI cannot replicate. The Review | Essay. This aligns with the broader movement to ensure ethical development and use of AI while promoting human-centered learning experiences.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 110

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Example: An English teacher leads a group discussion on empathy and perspective-taking after reading a novel, fostering emotional intelligence skills that AI cannot replicate. The Review | Essay. This aligns with the broader movement to ensure ethical development and use of AI while promoting human-centered learning experiences.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 110

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 4, 2018

Right from the comfort of your home, you can measure your English skills in the different categories of the test and get familiar with the exam process at a reasonable cost. How to Prepare for the SAT Essay. Stress has been taken out of your IELTS exam prep. IELTS Buddy. How to Prepare for the SAT.

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Exams Instructors Testing Quizzes 74

Not so Wimpy Teacher

JANUARY 7, 2024

This not only helps them understand English and communicate more effectively, but it also prepares them for learning a second language. When students understand how grammar rules work in English, they can apply them to a new language. Teaching grammar helps students to understand how language is built. Grammar rules are precise.

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Teaching Language Languages Communication 52

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. Surprise and novelty, too, activate attention centers in the brain, helping information stick. Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays. Even short physical activities can reset attention spans.

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Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph essays. The five-paragraph essay is a topic long debated by educators, and strong opinions abound. Consider paragraphs.

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Essay English Writing Art 147

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

A culminating experience in AP English asked us to write a paper about any author. I described him as a “listening poet” in an essay and my professor called me in and asked, “Can you tell me more about this?” All of that together attuned me to this life of sound around me. When I started reading literature, it pulled on that thread.

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Art Science Reading Failure 207

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

Over the last few years my classroom has gotten a lot of attention. The department head forced me to use the same texts used in every other English class—so there I was, in a room full of black kids reading the whitest things ever written. Image Credit: Farhat Ahmad Results that Captured Attention.

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Attention Special Education Curriculum Testing 143

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 30, 2025

Take grammar: Many students come into my classroom unable to tell me what a predicate or preposition is, and yet they are able to intuitively use both in the production of wonderful stories and essays. When it comes to grammar and language, the reward for learning it is captured well in that first English grammar book by Robert Lowth in 1762.

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Language Languages English Writing 69

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

Clint Smith Well, I taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland, for a few years before I went to graduate school, and for me, that experience very much served as the catalyst for every decision that I've made about how to navigate my life moving forward. That essay is a reminder.

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Technology History Learning Writing 125

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 25, 2019

Now, there are dozens of channels, hundreds of newspapers, thousands of bloggers, and tens of thousands of social media journalists — all trying to get your attention with the latest apocalyptic news flash. Stories based on gossip as much as fact used to be designated Yellow Journalism. ” — Wikipedia. Hyperbole is exciting.

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Critical Thinking Essay Internet Beliefs 98

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 30, 2025

High school brains work overtime whether writing an essay or solving multi-step equations, they need a moment to hit the pause button. Use them as a quirky bell ringer, an exit ticket, or a mental reset for a tough topic to grab your students’ attention. That’s where brain breaks for high school come in.

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High School High School Schools Students 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 11, 2025

In the years that followed, she emerged as one of the film industry’s top female action stars, garnering international attention for starring in blockbuster films such as Tomorrow Never Dies and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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Teaching Social Studies History Writing 93

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Among the top results: a slick animated video called “Problems in Public Education,” a rant arguing that all public education “kills creativity,” and a video essay titled “public ‘education’ has become indoctrination and distraction.” And that was just on the first page. What can professors do about such portrayals?

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Peer Review Education Essay Attention 128

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2019

Her application essay opened with an anecdote from her sophomore English class: She noticed that every author on the class reading list was a “dead, straight, white male,” as she summarized it. When she approached her teacher and asked why, he suggested that Clara take a “women’s literature” course if she wanted to read books by women.

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Teachers History Students English 159