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).

Essay 169

Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 169

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).

Intelligence 203

Intelligence Education Learning Ethics 203

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I'm bilingual and teach students who speak Spanish, so I am considering asking students to do their AI chatbot activities in English or Spanish. Several students asked me to do it in Spanish, and I didn't think about it then, but I would let them do it in a classroom activity in a couple of weeks.

Education 197

Education Learning Intelligence Coaching 197

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being. This aligns with the broader movement to ensure ethical development and use of AI while promoting human-centered learning experiences.

Ethics 111

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being. This aligns with the broader movement to ensure ethical development and use of AI while promoting human-centered learning experiences.

Ethics 111

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Literature review Writing assignments have traditionally served as a means to support the development of critical thinking skills in higher education. 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.

Essay 126

Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

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. Prior to that, she taught English at the secondary level.

Instructors 114

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 114

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To fill immediate gaps, smaller academic programs, such as Critical Thinking Initiatives and Centers for Teaching and Learning, can help campus communities begin engaging with generative AI thoughtfully while fostering student success and workplace readiness. An example of the latter would consider students’ needs and achievements.

Learning 116

Learning Ethics Writing Critical Thinking 116

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Literature review Writing assignments have traditionally served as a means to support the development of critical thinking skills in higher education. 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.

Essay 111

Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To fill immediate gaps, smaller academic programs, such as Critical Thinking Initiatives and Centers for Teaching and Learning, can help campus communities begin engaging with generative AI thoughtfully while fostering student success and workplace readiness. An example of the latter would consider students’ needs and achievements.

Learning 111

Learning Ethics Writing Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

We also acknowledged how integrating AI into coursework improperly could undermine the importance of critical thinking, creativity, and independent inquiry by providing students with ready-made answers or solutions. Changing English , (2024), 1–14. Resources to learn more about AI in the classroom: AI4K12.org: 2024.2309995. .”

Intelligence 128

Intelligence Critical Thinking Learning Assignments 128

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. Prior to that, she taught English at the secondary level.

Instructors 96

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 96

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

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). Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large.

Faculty Development 89

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 89

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I created this article not to discuss potential legal and ethical issues surrounding AI, but rather to share my observations from a broad perspective. Beyond basic editing, students can add specifications such as editing for English as a first language, or editing for the academic environment. I’ve embraced AI in the same way.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

We also acknowledged how integrating AI into coursework improperly could undermine the importance of critical thinking, creativity, and independent inquiry by providing students with ready-made answers or solutions. Changing English , (2024), 1–14. Resources to learn more about AI in the classroom: AI4K12.org: 2024.2309995. .”

Intelligence 107

Intelligence Critical Thinking Learning Assignments 107

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

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). Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large.

Faculty Development 81

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 81

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I created this article not to discuss potential legal and ethical issues surrounding AI, but rather to share my observations from a broad perspective. Beyond basic editing, students can add specifications such as editing for English as a first language, or editing for the academic environment. I’ve embraced AI in the same way.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2023

The nonprofit recognized Mendiola for her work at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, where she created a bilingual broadcast journalism class with a strong focus on news literacy and media ethics. All of the school’s students are bilingual in English and Spanish, and they come from families with limited financial resources.

Teachers 211

Teachers Ethics English Languages 211

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2017

Sure, class members can memorize facts but too often the critical thinking required to analyze cause and effect — say, how a specific river encouraged ancient trade — eludes them unless the teacher spells it out, telling them the “right” answer. Students prepare by closely reading/researching the text or topic.

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Beliefs Critical Thinking Lecturing Discussions 137

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

Students in Art Goldberg’s English composition classes at Miami-Dade College and Broward College have a different experience than their peers in most introductory college writing courses. I think it will be an interesting tool to look at ethics and review practices in a very whimsical way, but in a way that become serious pretty quickly.”

Game-Based Learning 132

Game-Based Learning Multidisciplinary Learning Writing 132

eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2025

Staten teaches English at Northeast High School, the citys largest high school, where many of her students have learning disabilities, are dealing with trauma and mental health challenges, or are learning English. She said she didnt think incorporating a new technology into her lesson plans would help much.

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Teachers English Plagiarism Writing 264