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MAY 18, 2023

Many students dread IB essays. Read how to draft an IB extended essay below Writing Strategies for an Extended Essay in the International Baccalaureate Program IB is a rigorous two-year project for personal and academic development. One of them is the extended essay. So, right off the bat, avoid this pitfall.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Evaluation 148

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Concerns about academic dishonesty, loss of critical thinking skills, and inappropriate content creation have sparked discussions about banning AI tools like ChatGPT, Grammarly, and others. While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 332

eSchool News

MAY 7, 2019

Anyone who says you can’t apply computational thinking and digital learning strategies to strengthen students’ writing skills is wrong. To the contrary, this innovative learning style helps students hone critical-thinking skills across every discipline. Collecting data. This lesson is also true for students.

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Skills Essay Critical Thinking Learning Styles 279

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Some experts believe this new technology can have a positive impact on teaching and learning, while others fret it may weaken the teaching of critical thinking and increase bias by spreading misinformation about different groups and cultures.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 344

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Providing students with choices to transfer and apply their learning encourages deeper thinking and enhances their ability to communicate their understanding effectively. These choices promote active engagement, critical thinking, and the ability to connect and apply concepts in various contexts.

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History Art Essay Physical Education 382

eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Whether a student is researching climate change, drafting an essay, or solving a coding problem, the ability to craft clear, thoughtful, and precise questions makes all the difference. This iterative process not only enhances the quality of AI-generated results but also strengthens their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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Questions Critical Thinking History Essay 306

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Now think about the frequency with which you read online articles, blogs, social media posts or listen to podcasts that inspire you or provide new information and perspectives. Whether text, video or something else entirely, each of these mediums encompasses a form of writing.

Writing 167

Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

It could be a video, a photo essay, a 3D rendering, or even an interpretive dance performance. Educators talk about writing across the curriculum–what about arts across the curriculum? Provenzano is also the 2013 winner of ISTE’s Outstanding Teacher Award. This is where PBL and maker education intersect. Why maker education?

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Curriculum Failure Essay Art 300

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. Do you like watching sports live or on TV?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Instead, ChatGPT-4 acts as an enhancer for my innate critical thinking and creative prowess. The MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI Working Paper highlights AI’s manifold advantages to higher education. The writing is on the wall for the decision-makers, professors, and curriculum developers.

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Essay Writing Critical Thinking Languages 286

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

On one extreme is its complete rejection; I think of this as absolute cognitive autonomy. On the other extreme is its complete acceptance; basically, you enter the essay prompt into ChatGPT and ask it to write the paper for you. I think of this as absolute cognitive outsourcing.

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Teachers Writing Critical Thinking Feedback 246

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MARCH 12, 2025

I know–many consider online services that write papers for you as a hard no, but let’s talk about that. Thats why students look for ways to make the process easier, and one of the smartest moves is using a term paper writing service. Avoiding last-minute panic Nobody writes their best work at 3 AM the night before its due.

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Assignments Writing Essay Critical Thinking 134

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

“I love teaching and helping kids grow,” she added, “but I hate that writing instruction takes up hours and hours of my life.” A 2016 study of 3rd to 8th grade educators found that only 55% of teachers said they enjoy teaching writing. I spent years working at Google, and the skills that were critical to my success may surprise you.

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Writing Teaching Education Feedback 155

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

How can I best support students with very poor writing skills when the class is not one specifically focused on writing? I'm already encouraging them to use the Writing Center and giving feedback that highlights one or two specific grammar/ clarity issues to focus on. Inoue, director of the writing center at the U.of

Writing 158

Writing Skills Teaching Essay 158

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 338

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Seventy percent of high school juniors and seniors believe AI-powered tools, including ChatGPT, can be a resource in brainstorming ideas for their college essays or short answer responses. AI-powered tools can help students brainstorm ideas for a college essay.

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Essay Exams Testing Reading 281

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

This approach stems from concerns about academic integrity, originality, and the potential for AI to undermine the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Here, AI acts as an intelligent assistant, helping students improve grammar, structure, and coherence in their writing.

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Ethics Instructors Education Academic Integrity 321

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

In order to meet these goals while also responding to testing demands, I needed a new resource: one that would provide my students with a strong framework for writing and use technology as the primary composing tool. Fortunately, I found everything I was looking for (and more) in the online reading and writing program ThinkCERCA.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 131

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By exploring related categories, subcategories, or topics, students can develop a broader understanding of the larger information landscape and make connections between topics and ideas, which boosts their critical thinking skills and can help them refine their thesis.

Peer Review 278

Peer Review Essay Skills Critical Thinking 278

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

However, there are a couple of major problems with this line of thinking. Educators find it socially acceptable for a student to hire a tutor to help them write their college admission essay. The first is an equity concern. We also accept the fact that, many times, a parent helps build their 4th-grader’s science fair project.

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Fairness Beliefs Evaluation Essay 298

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

This strategy provides students with the opportunity to deepen their understanding while developing self-direction and critical thinking skills that are valuable far beyond testing season. #2 Writing a diary entry from that persons perspective. Designing a digital trading card with stats and accomplishments.

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Testing Learning Critical Thinking Essay 195

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In addition, many students are using AI to write coursework and essays, which has caused a lot of outrage. Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. AI can also point out areas for improvement in writing and provide personalized recommendations.

Education 184

Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 184

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Machado was nominated by the Bilingual Department Chairperson Brian Donovan who submitted an essay describing how Machado helps his students. Runner-up McGrath wrote in his essay , “Parent-Teacher Conferences are a big part of our school year. The essays submitted by these entrants were incredibly inspiring. About Rosetta Stone.

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Essay English Languages Language 168

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The most-cited applications included providing feedback on student work, creating professional development materials, supporting writing and content generation, creating course content, and enhancing accessibility for students with special needs. The coaches reported that AI is used for various instructional purposes.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 200

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Educators often ask: How can we help ELLs succeed academically while fostering their independence and critical thinking skills? Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation. That helped me finish that part of the essay. and Che Guevara.

Essay 166

Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 166

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2023

Fiction, essays, science. Essays convey the author’s thoughts and analysis of a particular topic. An essay on The Distance Between Us can be a great way for students to show how they can analyze characters and their actions. And this, along with critical thinking, is a very important skill for later adult life.

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Essay Ethics Critical Thinking Intelligence 29

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2023

Our readers’ favorite stories included some of the aforementioned pieces plus some others, spanning first-person essays from classroom teachers to deeply reported stories from our staff journalists. But rather than helping them to cope, she writes that her hope for every educator is to find a community of resistance when they need it.

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Essay Writing Coaching Critical Thinking 165

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

This new solution will harness this transformative moment by enabling educators with an integrated Khanmigo experience that supports human-driven, technology-enhanced essay feedback and grading, lesson planning and rubric creation. “How can classrooms use AI tools, while ensuring students develop critical thinking skills? .

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Essay Ethics Instructors Writing 130

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

For example, teachers should encourage students to talk to one another about different debugging strategies, reframe frustrating moments as a time for critical thinking and build classroom culture by sharing and celebrating student work. I felt that I was learning how to make tools for social change.”

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Science Education Learning Essay 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Like how to write an email.” Helping students write and reason clearly, critically and concisely is the central mission at her company, ThinkCERCA. Teachers can choose a lesson in the program, which guides students through a multi-step process to analyze the reading materials and write a response essay.

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Textbooks Essay Writing English 271

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed higher education. Literature review Writing assignments have traditionally served as a means to support the development of critical thinking skills in higher education. Of course, AI writing tools are neither NS nor NNS.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It is also an effective pedagogical strategy to teach students the skills of critical thinking, giving and receiving feedback and taking responsibility for their own learning. Writing useful feedback is hard. In the beginning, most students may be reluctant to share their work with peers and write feedback to each other.

Feedback 141

Feedback Peer Review Critical Thinking Assignments 141

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. It may be one like Storyboard That! Click to view slideshow.

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

And I’ve noticed that technology usage usually fits into one of two categories: independent practice or procedural support—such as writing an essay in Google Docs. Our nation’s employers report that creativity and critical thinking are the most valuable skills an employee can have. Tackling these challenges pays off.

Curriculum 156

Curriculum Technology Textbooks Essay 156

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed higher education. Literature review Writing assignments have traditionally served as a means to support the development of critical thinking skills in higher education. Of course, AI writing tools are neither NS nor NNS.

Essay 111

Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. Thinking Games. It may be a Canva templates, Storyboard That!,

Activities 174

Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

Previously, my kids struggled with writing. Instead of getting 125 essays written in the exact same style with the same details, I now get unique historical narratives, rich with sensory experiences and observations made with their own eyes. I prefer assessments that promote critical thinking and written reflection over build quality.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Essay Discussions 168