eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

As trusted mentors and professional development leaders, they guide teachers in implementing AI tools thoughtfully, ensuring that technology enhances student learning while aligning with pedagogical best practices. Despite its advantages, instructional coaches identified several challenges and ethical concerns.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

AI's ability to provide instantaneous, tailored feedback can revolutionize how educators evaluate and enhance academic performance. However, as the educational community navigates these innovations, it becomes essential to address ethical considerations to ensure the responsible and effective integration of AI.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Rose: Personalized learning goes beyond tailoring the pace and the content of education to individual learners, though that is certainly part of the definition. Perhaps more importantly, it's also about creating an effective, ethical and equitable educational experience for every learner.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

If it’s the second, then most small liberal arts colleges are well-equipped to train students about the social and ethical challenges that artificial intelligence presents. I’m sure I miss key elements in my description, partly by design to promote critical thinking. Are these perfect analogies?

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Educators often ask: How can we help ELLs succeed academically while fostering their independence and critical thinking skills? Addressing educator concerns While AI tools enhance learning, educators often worry about overreliance and ethical concerns (Selwyn, 2019). UCL Institute of Education Press.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In recent years, K-12 tech innovation news has made it clear that educational technology has become an integral part of classrooms, influencing teaching methodologies, student interactions, and the overall educational landscape. As with all innovations, there are positive and negative effects of technology on education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AI Literacy applies 21st-century skills , including communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. It builds on years of work in Digital and Media Literacy and Computational Thinking , including elements of computer science, ethics and additional areas beyond science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Key points: When used with fidelity, edtech is extremely beneficial in classrooms Education technology boosts student learning Stay up to date on the latest in education technology Education technology enhances classroom learning by providing interactive tools that engage students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2019

Recent surveys have repeatedly found that employers want college graduates with strong soft skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration. Wallace said this his grounding in the humanities has reminded him to consider ethics in any conversation about technology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2022

Anxiety about its ethics has been around almost since its infancy, and privacy issues surfaced as early as 2007. Yet as Facebook comes of age, it’s fair to reflect on the company’s motives, ethics, and actions. It all seemed too good to be true. And maybe that’s because it was. Facebook seemed too good to be true.

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APRIL 24, 2023

Kumar has been a teacher for 19 years and is passionate about creating a learning environment that fosters critical thinking, collaboration and creativity among her students. This ensures that AI tools are not only effective but also responsible and ethical. Lastly, AI tools can have significant ethical implications.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

First, observation, then confusion, then critical thinking, then problem-solving, then ethics and then judgment. That’s a lot of human—not AI—skills to stitch together.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. One thing that cannot be denied is the disconnect in today’s education technology between AV and IT and various domains.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Virtual tutors and educational games powered by AI engage students in interactive and immersive learning experiences, enhancing critical thinking and problem-solving skills. AI streamlines administrative tasks for educators, such as grading and assessment. What are the pros and cons of AI in education?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They articulated how they would and would not use [AI-assisted text generators] at school and built the ethics with their understanding and discussion. The activity develops students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills. The AI tool is a basketball coaching tool showing the shot angle.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Educator and edtech consultant Rachelle Dené Poth agrees, sharing how she encourages her students to use AI-powered tools in the classroom. You have to show students how [generative AI] is just a tool and let them know that this is not supposed to replace their own critical thinking, creativity and all these skills they need,” says Poth.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2024

Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. As such, many students enter college and the workforce not having enough practice in key critical thinking skills that they need to be innovative problem-solvers and effective communicators.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2025

Beyond artificial intelligences potential to make administrative processes smoother, there are a host of logistical and ethical considerations that Just says districts must make when it comes to infusing AI into their curriculums.

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2017

It is problematic, however, that when asking what skills students need, we seek the perspective of those whose focus is on technology and the forces that drive it, with the assumption that they must know better than educators simply because they are working in the business world. It’s not educators or students or research.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park As described in our modern mythical tale, Jurassic Park, technology may not always lead to positive outcomes if implemented without critical thought, moral ground or inquiry. Today, classical education can provide a roadmap for students to learn and grow.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

After all, academic research often requires deeper knowledge of a field than is typical in high school, and it involves carefully following ethical guidelines to protect research subjects from potential harm that students may not be aware of without expert guidance. “A

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

She sees opportunity in the increased emphasis from the labor market for humanistic skills, such as emotional intelligence and ethics: “To say at a very granular level that this is what a human skill entials breaks down the false dichotomy we have between hard and soft skills.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

The concerns you have about assessing creative work seem to reflect an important (I would even say necessary) ethic you are attempting to live up to in your teaching. Another resource for further exploration is the Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero’s Visible Thinking project.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2025

These schools are working to equip educators and students with essential skills to harness the power of AI in an increasingly modern technological world. While state, federal, district and school-wide policies for utilizing safe and ethical AI are important, educators will drive the implementation of AI technologies in the classroom.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Beyond cheating of course, there is another common fear that ChatGPT will diminish critical thinking abilities in students. If the machine is doing the thinking, then what are students really learning? Students are just as worried about this [critical thinking loss]. Dembo refutes this claim right out the gate.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty unease is notable: 54% prefer fully in-person instruction, citing discomfort with digital mediation (Barnes & Noble Education, 2022). Overreliance on AI risks undermining critical thinking; Pritts (2023) warns that tools generating papers may erode analytical skills, echoing SoTL calls for active learning (Davidson, 2021).

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

AI Foundations for Educators – Common Sense Education: A short course by Common Sense Education covers foundational AI and its ethical considerations in education. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology. California students to learn about AI and media literacy soon.

Intelligence 113

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Sandwiched between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, this full-time innovation school for middle and high school students based in Cambridge, Mass., places creativity, critical thinking and collaboration at the heart of its pedagogy. This portfolio is key. In the U.S.,

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. Educational Technology Research and Development 69 (2): 55381.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

So the book's focus is on institutions that have made fundamental shifts to respond to the primary external challenges: a shift in demographics, challenges to the business model, changes in the market and interest in the liberal arts—and to some degree, changes in education technology and how that affects the demand for small colleges.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty unease is notable: 54% prefer fully in-person instruction, citing discomfort with digital mediation (Barnes & Noble Education, 2022). Overreliance on AI risks undermining critical thinking; Pritts (2023) warns that tools generating papers may erode analytical skills, echoing SoTL calls for active learning (Davidson, 2021).

Faculty Development 75

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 75

Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. Educational Technology Research and Development 69 (2): 55381.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

AI Foundations for Educators – Common Sense Education: A short course by Common Sense Education covers foundational AI and its ethical considerations in education. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology. California students to learn about AI and media literacy soon.

Intelligence 84

Intelligence Ethics Knowledge Language 84

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Not everyone thinks that’s possible, of course, and even Cavanagh, vice provost for digital learning at the University of Central Florida, admits that edtech can spark plenty of new ethical challenges along the way. I think, honestly, the creative outlet of fiction writing makes me better at work. I love doing both.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

So it was frustrating at times dealing with girls who were inexperienced, scared and, more than anything, needed to develop a work ethic. I remember coming home in tears thinking, ‘Oh my God, this is going to be a failure. That forced them to do that critical thinking. I used the Socratic Method.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. One thing that cannot be denied is the disconnect in today’s education technology between AV and IT and various domains.

Gamification 130

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a structured classroom setting, an educator can only be expected to teach a certain amount of curriculum, and learners can only retain so much information at one time. ChatGPT use in education provides that adaptive capability to teach content, but at the learners’ interest to supplement the instructional direction.

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