eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. Define when and how it’s appropriate, fostering a culture of integrity. For instance, students could compare human-written essays with AI-generated ones to discuss tone, bias, and effectiveness.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

We held Socratic seminars rooted in essays by Amy Tan and Daniel José Older. In addition to sharing their stories of living these culture gaps every day, I wanted people to show their faces to humanize the statistics and remind people that the diversity of our schools is rooted in the unique experiences of real individuals.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

His essay, Money Cant Buy Happiness, included valuable reflections on emotional fulfillment and references to The Great Gatsby, yet his ideas were scattered and the language needed refinement. For example, students can prompt ChatGPT with Help me outline a persuasive essay on solar energy, and it will provide a structured outline.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

For instance, instead of banning tools like ChatGPT for essay writing, teachers can encourage students to use AI in their work but clearly document how their essays evolved through multiple drafts. Students then engage in “intelligence augmentation,” or the enhancement of human intelligence through AI tools.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

What activities can I use to help my grade students understand the cultural/historical context of ? Please provide some ideas for offering my grade students choices in how they demonstrate their understanding of. How can I integrate technology to enhance my grade students’ learning about ?

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Highlighting their achievements can boost morale and encourage a supportive school culture. Activities like creating portfolios, writing reflective essays, or presenting on their learning journey can be very effective. Public acknowledgment : Publicly recognize the efforts of the staff in meetings, newsletters, and social media.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

3.2 – Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. Each group receives targeted support in writing argumentative essays, with the instruction tailored to their specific needs.

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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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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Driven in part by the educational imperative to minimize student testing, what better solution than a test already heavily vetted as being inclusive and cross-cultural that many students are familiar with. In this article, I’ll focus on preparation for the SAT essay portion. use academic-specific vocabulary whenever possible.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Contest winners get to participate in behind-the-scenes experiences at iconic American historical and cultural sites as part of America’s Field Trip. I combine the picture books with Gilder Lehrman essays in my classroom. The length is manageable for a classroom setting, and the essays cover a wide variety of topics.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

But over time I’ve found many middle schoolers are not equipped to critique an essay that meets the expectations of the assignment. I also grapple with the cultural obsession with technology. Peer editing here usually consists of working with partners, swapping writing assignments and making suggestions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. My goal was to change the climate and culture in my classroom to help students feel more comfortable with trying, failing, and, most importantly, improving. Related: 4 things you should know about digital portfolios.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. Learning a Language: Acquiring a new language involves mastering vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and cultural nuances.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. Makerspaces, or library media centers that encourage collaboration and support student invention, are on the rise across the United States.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s just more complex and time consuming, he says, to gauge how much a student has learned about, say, how to weigh two competing views of a historical event in an essay assignment. It might seem counterintuitive that the same technology threatening to hinder student learning might be used to boost it.

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Essay Social Studies Education Critical Thinking 199

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 30, 2024

Research different universities, considering factors such as location, size, academic programs, campus culture, and extracurricular opportunities. These may include standardized test scores (SAT or ACT), high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and personal essays. GPA, check out colleges that accept a 3.5

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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 339

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2016

There’s an unlimited range of ways to write and things to write about here, from poetry and fan fiction (or “fanfic”) to current events and college entrance essays. Pros : Great prompts and a lively community connect teens from across the globe, fostering cultural awareness and a shared love for writing. Rating : 4/5.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

As a case in point, Project Topeka featured an automated essay scoring tool that provided grades 6–8 students with individualized line-level feedback on argumentative essays responding to six different prompts. Proficient definition—“The essay introduces a clear claim based on the topic or text(s). See Exhibit 1.)

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Solution for teachers : Teachers can foster a culture of integrity by establishing trust and open communication. written essays or multimedia presentations)–can help students feel more invested. Its up to educators to rethink traditional assessment methods and build a classroom culture that values learning over compliance.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2024

In his essay , “Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change,” Neil Postman, an educator and social critic, wrote “every technology has a prejudice,” adding that “it predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments.”

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Teachers Essay Writing Culture 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Its new minor program, called “Code as a Liberal Art,” treats computer science as a tool not just for career preparation, but for creative expression, cultural criticism and “civic awareness for understanding an increasingly computational society,” says Todd Anderson, assistant professor of code and liberal arts at the institution.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. Fluent in Digital Culture — Not Academic Tools It’s understandable that many educators perceive members of Gen Z to be internet-savvy.

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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. Our students have rich, cultural lives and dynamic insight into their passions.

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English Culture Syllabus Writing 194

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

She encourages her students to use MyEssayFeedback, an AI tool that critiques the organization of an essay, the quality of evidence a student has included to support their thesis or the tone of the writing. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Realizing this truth has led me to rethink how I define culturally sustaining pedagogy. The ways and means of learning in the classroom should mirror the culture and community of the students in it. I want them to leave my classroom with the ability to work kindly with others and care about the people around them.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2024

For example, one day, I was sitting in my classroom in full panic mode as I tried to figure out how to create a graphic organizer for my students’ first essay. This would require a school culture where regular perspective-taking is happening so we can understand each other. What is this experience teaching me about myself right now?

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Teachers Culture Essay Classroom Management 194

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 tutors could favor particular cultural backgrounds, ethnicities or genders depending on what data they are trained on.

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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 184

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

New people, culture, and most importantly, a new language! But in essays, research papers, and reports, you need a strong command of the language. Watch YouTube videos on structuring a dissertation chapter or your academic essay to improve proficiency. The communication styles of people from different cultures are also diverse.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The hope is that new AI tools will allow for replacing many multiple-choice exercises in online textbooks with fill-in-the-blank or essay questions. Specifically, new AI tools can be used to improve how educators measure and grade a students progress through course materials.

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Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 198

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

The technology with which we are handling all of our communication, culture-building and collaboration might be tools we have, up until now, used solely for transactional purposes. Did we really want to contribute more than we already had to a digital pile of manifestoes and letters and essays and livestreams and webinars? Not really.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Expect these pure plays to get significantly better results compared to incumbents, assuming the other pillars of their schools, such as the on-site guides, organizational cultures, and custodial care, are adequate. 7 That implies most students wont benefit from pureplay software-directed instruction in 2025.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 264

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JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s not a mastery-based standard and it hasn’t been given the same weight as crafting a clear argument in an essay or explaining the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration. In an essay penned in 1935, which has become one of the anchor texts I’ve drawn from throughout my career, W.E.B.

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 185

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It might seem strange to squeeze in lessons on coping with trauma or resolving political disputes in between frog dissections and persuasive essay writing, but students today say they want to be as prepared socially and emotionally as they are academically when they leave high school. After lunch and before U.S.

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Skills Essay Beliefs Students 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Even in middle school, Hyler still sees students struggle with concepts such as proper capitalization and tone, as they navigate between texting with friends and crafting essays or emails to adults. “So let’s mix them together and talk about them both.” It’s a process. It does not happen overnight,” Hyler says.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

She harnesses the power of many platforms, devices, and peripherals to offer her students personalized instruction, inclusivity, data-driven feedback, cross-cultural exchanges, and the support of other educators at their school. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

Because everything was graded complete/incomplete, three-sentence reading responses held the same weight as thousand-word essays, making it unclear how much time I expected them to spend on a given assignment. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 9, no. Schapiro, Barbara.

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