Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Using technology to score essays is nothing new. Still, some educators and parents alike felt blindsided by the news about auto-grading essays for K-12 students. Equity and Accuracy One question is whether the new system will fairly grade the writing of children who are bilingual or who are learning English.

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Fairness Testing Grades Essay 198

eSchool News

MAY 22, 2017

Students enter my English classrooms and see the course as a requirement for advancement. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes ubiquitous, users will be communicating more with each other and with their own products through language. This message should be universally displayed in English classrooms throughout the country.

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Writing Technology Education Essay 225

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). Each won $5,000 grants as well as the schoolwide semester’s subscription to Rosetta Stone English. I have given my students over 10,000 books.”

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Essay English Language Languages 162

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. They were allowing something they love to become tangible and communicating that with their peers.

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English Culture Syllabus Writing 201

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In an English class, for instance, teachers might give students a list of books relating to a certain theme and let students choose which book to read. They might write an essay, compile a slideshow presentation, or create a video, for instance. Choice in product lets students decide how to show what they’ve learned.

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Why do we need a required writing course if AI can do everything outside stakeholders want such a course to teach? ,” asked Melissa Nicolas, a professor of English at Washington State University, in an op-ed last year. So where does AI leave the writing center? AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says.

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Writing Instructors Essay English 206

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Analytical Essay + Book Promo/Trailer Video There are many blog posts out there encouraging teachers to choose assignments other than essays. But it is hard to argue that the communication skills that students practice in the course of writing are not essential.

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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan provided strategies and resources for teachers to use in their classrooms, and through this assignment, he learned a variety of skills including how to design compelling professional learning opportunities, how to find and evaluate sources and how to communicate his findings clearly to an audience.

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High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 211

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

billion in venture capital, according to EdSurge data—most notably Chinese startups that connect local students with English tutors. They can upload files or send a photo directly onto the platform, and communicate with a tutor via chat and a digital whiteboard. Since 2016, these companies have raised more than $1.2

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

I went to a liberal arts college and spent most of my undergrad years not focusing particularly closely on the computer science coursework, but instead focusing on different areas of political science, of English. Literacy and collaboration and communication with your peers has certainly not been in shining stellar examples lately.

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Achievement Writing Essay Language 165

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Many educators who use the approach, which is often called process tracking, do so as an alternative to running student work through AI detectors, which are prone to falsely accusing students , especially those who dont speak English as their first language.

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Instructors History English Writing 203

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The teacher’s 10th grade class had just finished op-ed essays on a topic of their choice, and Kyle had chosen to examine the economic impact of illegal immigration on the U.S.

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Essay Beliefs Language Languages 168

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. There are patterns of communication that cannot be reduced if you want to communicate ideas fully.” Louis, insists that’s not the end of the story. The form itself is constrained.

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Writing Essay Learning English 149

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. For example, Larry Reiff, a high school English teacher in New York, uses Twitter to teach his students about Shakespeare by having them tweet in the voice of characters.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

Whether students curate a playlist of five songs or build a whole album to reflect on their learning, theyre thinking critically about how to synthesize content and communicate understanding in a creative way. #4 In science, Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash might symbolize tectonic plate movement and volcanic activity.

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Testing Learning Critical Thinking Essay 195

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

When and how should students learn social and emotional skills—between first-period biology and third-period English literature? In most workplaces today, Dinges added, social and emotional skills like communication and understanding differing points of view are as essential as any basic job function. After lunch and before U.S.

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Skills Essay Beliefs Students 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. 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

Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

Despite having dyslexia, he knew that he had ideas he wanted to communicate. The result: He eventually graduated college as an English major. Instead of requiring every student to complete a worksheet or a test, allow them to write an essay, create a slide deck or make a podcast.

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Universal Design Disabilities Mobile Devices Students 212

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

What is your favorite way to communicate with friends? 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. Use them to begin longer narrative essays, begin class discussions, or introduce elements of fiction in your language arts class.

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

West-Smith, a former English teacher, middle-school principal, and district curriculum supervisor, is the Curriculum Content Manager at. The thing that folks don’t realize is that often times English teachers have not had extensive training in teaching writing,” West-Smith says. Prompts, Essays and More. Patti West-Smith.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 138

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Suppose Ella is working on 9th-grade English as a 10-year-old. Performance tasks require students to apply their knowledge, such as through an essay, performance, work of art, exhibition, and so forth. This post originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog , and is reposted here with permission.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 237

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a comparison of student English essays by NS and NNS of French origin, Granger and Tyson (1996) found that NNS were far less likely to use a term such as “instead” in their writing. Ma and Wang (2016) compared essays written in English by British and American students to essays written in English by Cantonese students.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

That year, my students would learn how to listen actively, communicate clearly, and control outbursts. You’re communicating, collaborating, managing yourself, the list goes on. They chose to debate over issues resonating with them the most: police reform, stop and frisk, housing segregation, and gentrification.

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Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

“I think students are reading and writing more than ever,” says Jeremy Hyler, an eighth-grade English teacher at Fulton Middle School in Michigan. “Is Of course, there’s still a place for longform essays and formal writing, and strong writing instruction will effectively incorporate both, she says. Is it quality writing?

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

Most of his customers did not speak English as their first language, he says, and others seemed to lack the preparation for the work they were being asked to do. We encourage our customers to use the work we provide as a guide,” says Avery Morgan, a spokesperson for EduBirdie, which advertises itself as a “professional essay writing service.”

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Essay Writing Academic Integrity Students 168

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

She has an important job—the 300 or so tutors her company hires are its direct line of communication with about 300,000 students in the U.S. and Canada in search of help for a variety of subjects, from English to chemistry. She began as a tutor two years ago, for subjects including chemistry and essay-writing.

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Essay English Evaluation Knowledge 124

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. Their understanding of memes, social media platforms and other ways of communicating come from an adolescence where the default mode of socializing has been online. “My

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Teaching Culture Internet Students 203

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

He earned a master’s degree in creative writing and poetry from Brooklyn College, began a master’s degree program in English education at NYU, and is now an adjunct lecturer at CUNY. However, the email is kept private, with students communicating via a chat feature embedded in the app. Course Hero Faculty Club member, Jon Chin.

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Students Lecturing English Essay 154

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. Special educator Kareem Neal uses empathy as a tool to improve communication and connection with the students in his self-contained classroom and their families.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The essay, in particular, appeared to be key in distinguishing between students who finished and didn’t finish their applications. Out of the students who eventually applied, 94 percent wrote at least 100 characters for their essay; whereas just 43 percent of students who did not write at least that much ended up applying.

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Counselling Essay Students Study 210

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a comparison of student English essays by NS and NNS of French origin, Granger and Tyson (1996) found that NNS were far less likely to use a term such as “instead” in their writing. Ma and Wang (2016) compared essays written in English by British and American students to essays written in English by Cantonese students.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

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. We also recognize the value of reaching teachers where they are in their workflow.

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school. In 2016-17, I was the new English department chair at ECRCHS, which is a large public charter school in Los Angeles. It also gave us our initial essay scores to compare pre- and post-performance.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I teach middle school English Language Arts at St. But over time I’ve found many middle schoolers are not equipped to critique an essay that meets the expectations of the assignment. The ability to properly communicate and collaborate is a skill that needs to be preserved and fostered. Joseph School in Chester County, Pa.

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Culture Feedback Writing Assignments 167

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

I did not have to rewrite my essays, and from that point on I fell in love with technology, how amazing it is that it can help people to be efficient and also do beautiful work. Emotionally, that can be very stressful, not only for understanding the content, but understanding what the teacher is asking for, or communicating with peers.

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Technology Students Language Languages 164

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

“Another English teacher just switched to gym because she couldn’t do it anymore,” a teacher from Georgia recently told me. “I In my own professional life, some of my most challenging work is coordinating across different teams, writing clear communication and project plans, and problem solving. She’s not alone in her sentiments.

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Writing Teaching Education Feedback 156

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Image Credit: Farhat Ahmad Curriculum Overhaul In 2015, I was hired as a Fulton County School District Learning Architect, which meant I was part of a team tasked with identifying power standards for English Language Arts. The milestone included three types of essays: informative, argumentative and narrative.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 133