eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key points : Today’s students will undoubtedly encounter generative AI in their careers Two higher-ed instructors have designed a guide for using generative AI in life design and career education See related article: A scholar’s embrace of ChatGPT-4 Innovations that have transformed education have often been met with skepticism.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors. He says instructors who felt forced to quickly allow for remote options or teach remotely are now eager to get back to what they consider normal. As one instructor wrote in an essay last year , “everyone lost something in HyFlex courses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. Should they disclose that to students?

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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. So some colleges and instructors have started to think about how to help students get up to speed on their digital and technical skills.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Hoping to Regain Attention of Students, Professors Pay More Attention to Them Getting and holding the attention of students is more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors and students press pause for winter break, journalists at EdSurge are likewise taking some time away from writing and editing during the last week of 2023. In each essay, Green examines an element or experience of being human today — the QWERTY keyboard, sunsets, Dr Pepper, Canada geese — and then rates it out of five stars.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“This past year has allowed us insight into how disruptive innovation can harness the power of technology to ignite a new generation of empowered citizens,” enthuses Martha Bongiorno, a Media and Education Technology Instructor in Fulton County, Georgia. They learn content and how to be a positive change agent in our communities.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

“In joining Microsoft, Flipgrid will retain its distinct brand, culture, and team focused on amplifying the voices of all students,” said the news release. And many teachers use the tool to ask students to give answers in video messages rather than writing out an essay.

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Gaggle Speaks

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In our uber-socialized culture, students are used to the notion of being connected at all times. With Office 365, this means students can add thoughts to an essay draft or make changes to a PowerPoint slide at the very moment a new idea comes to them. We’ve already established that just about everything in our culture is on the go.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While companies such as GPTZero have responded to academic concerns by creating software designed to detect the use of AI in written work, false positives and underconfidence in the software’s assessment leaves instructors without an actionable means to promote integrity in coursework (Chaka, 2023). Kuswoyo et al. References Chaka, C.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” He believes chief academic officers are best positioned to lead and implement a campus-wide strategy around building digital literacies.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While companies such as GPTZero have responded to academic concerns by creating software designed to detect the use of AI in written work, false positives and underconfidence in the software’s assessment leaves instructors without an actionable means to promote integrity in coursework (Chaka, 2023). Kuswoyo et al. References Chaka, C.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Back channels give students the opportunity to have their own conversations, to share questions and comments, and, yes, memes and jokes that, in our experience, are a strategy that allow students to shape the culture of the classroom. They also allow instructors to generate a steady stream of signals we can use to support our students.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

Rethinking Cultural Identity in the Era of K12 online education In a traditional classroom, culture is everywhere. But what happens to that rich cultural backdrop when school moves online? The Cultural Ecosystem of Traditional Schools Physical schools have always served dual purposes. Lessons are compressed.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Back channels give students the opportunity to have their own conversations, to share questions and comments, and, yes, memes and jokes that, in our experience, are a strategy that allow students to shape the culture of the classroom. They also allow instructors to generate a steady stream of signals we can use to support our students.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 17, 2023

Faced with the stress of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to design assignments to outwit ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that can write essays, or figure out how to get students to come to virtual office hours. The slow professor: challenging the culture of speed in the academy. References Berg, M. &

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. I work with students from all disciplines and cultural and linguistic backgrounds where I cover the whole spectrum of writing instruction. When I teach, I do not use the phrase “grading essays” anymore. I’m also a writing specialist in a support center.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And I think that we can think of that as kind of an analysis of a lot of different kind of factors that students report out on about their activities and grades and test scores and who they are and keywords they might be using in their essays—and then delivering a set of recommendations or ideal candidates to universities. And students?

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

As part of the class, she has to study a career, write a short essay about it and present it at a career fair. All around the open-air campus, murals tell the story of the regions multi-cultural heritage, especially its Mexican and Chicano roots. That celebration of culture is a direct response to a history of adversity, Lamas said.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While faculty members might feel good when students score well in their examinations and essays, there is little long-term fruit. What exists in Arabic in terms of Sunday school curricula, youth work materials, and home Bible studies is largely translation from English, often poorly translated and culturally inappropriate.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 17, 2023

Faced with the stress of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to design assignments to outwit ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that can write essays, or figure out how to get students to come to virtual office hours. The slow professor: challenging the culture of speed in the academy. References. Berg, M. &

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eLearning Interdisciplinary Plagiarism Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. I work with students from all disciplines and cultural and linguistic backgrounds where I cover the whole spectrum of writing instruction. When I teach, I do not use the phrase “grading essays” anymore. I’m also a writing specialist in a support center.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. I came to alternative assessment alongside many other instructors as COVID-19 forced seasoned instructors to grapple with assessment policies. University Press of Colorado, 2022.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

Our culture of higher education is backwards. Before coming to Wayfinding, Stewart worked as an instructor at Outward Bound, as well as at a variety of software companies. But as Jones explains in a recent essay she posted on LinkedIn , all of Wayfindings initial class were predominantly white.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Why It Works A study published in the journal Learning and Instruction showed that humor used by instructors can improve knowledge retention and student satisfaction. Use Cultural References: Explain scientific concepts using elements from popular shows, books, or celebrities that students relate to. .” The result? The result?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

In the former, an instructor may simply be unaware that students can now type a writing prompt into a website and copy the answer it generates into a document to submit. Many instructors already rely on plagiarism checkers. These attitudes are lumped together because both favor avoiding the core issue. AI isn’t going away.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Indeed, every interaction with my students was a rhetorical choice: from how I styled my hair to the outfit I wore when handing back graded essays. Furthermore, instructors in the humanities are well situated for this timely introspection. And so, for many years, stepping through the classroom door meant turning on a switch.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

In the former, an instructor may simply be unaware that students can now type a writing prompt into a website and copy the answer it generates into a document to submit. Many instructors already rely on plagiarism checkers. These attitudes are lumped together because both favor avoiding the core issue. AI isn’t going away.

Assignments 98

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Indeed, every interaction with my students was a rhetorical choice: from how I styled my hair to the outfit I wore when handing back graded essays. Furthermore, instructors in the humanities are well situated for this timely introspection. And so, for many years, stepping through the classroom door meant turning on a switch.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

But the opportunities for our students to experience other cultures prepares them for their future.” One ESL instructor started a project called Saving Stories to fill a gap of children’s stories written in Napolese or Karen. One of our girls wrote a beautiful essay. She is African.

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