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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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. Another big application is in assessment, says Pardos, the Berkeley professor.

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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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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 213

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Artificial Intelligence–AI–has been around a long time, but caught everyone’s attention with the launch of generative AI, ChatGPT, and DALL-E. Let’s see what the Ask a Tech Teacher team says: Pros And Cons of AI in Education Artificial intelligence (AI) is making major inroads into education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

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. At colleges and universities, there's a culture of professors grabbing materials from the web without always citing them. Should they disclose that to students?

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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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Writing Essay Teachers Feedback 148

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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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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Languages Language Communication English 133

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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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. These intelligent tools can adapt pacing based on the student’s ability … and provide targeted, corrective feedback in case the student makes mistakes, so that the student can learn from them,” states an eSchool News report released earlier this year.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In fact, three of our top 10 episodes of the year explored various aspects of how new forms of artificial intelligence are impacting teaching and learning. Students are already figuring out they can use it to write their essays, and educators are pondering how to adapt.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. It may be one like Storyboard That! Pixton , or another that you prefer. Teams score one point per correct answer.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Higher-order thinking skills are essential for success, so we should use edtech to drive that thinking Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting the education landscape. Here are their thoughts, and ours: Three Rules of the New Digital Classroom 1. They learn content and how to be a positive change agent in our communities.”

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed 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. Kuswoyo et al. link] Gibbs, J.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI.

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Technology Education Intelligence Communication 148

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

“Scientific studies show that SEL practices improve students’ academic performance, behavior, and attendance,” say Dr. Christina Cipriano, Director of Research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Rethink Ed contributor. Here’s what we found: SEL is for teachers, too. SEL lesson for grades 6-8.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed 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. Kuswoyo et al. link] Gibbs, J.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As director of the futures initiative at CUNY's Graduate Center, Davidson studies and thinks a lot about cultural history and technology. Well, that essay was called The New Education and it was so important that Harvard hired this young man—he was only 34. On a personal level, I'm kind of geek. I'm also dyslexic.

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Education Intelligence History Essay 140

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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Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 153

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Move This World (New York) uses multimedia content to develop social skills and strengthen emotional intelligence in Pre-K through high school. Similarly, AT&T Aspire’s Words Liive combines excerpts from popular songs and classic literature to allow teachers to create engaging, culturally relevant lessons.

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Counselling Quizzes Essay Beliefs 120

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

It won’t have to reach for relatable pop culture analogies to edutain the masses when it’s seen every movie and read every book, we humans fed it. Is Uncanny Valley Community College really so far off? Especially considering an essential fact that must be faced: used correctly, the tech is a great writing teacher.

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

It won’t have to reach for relatable pop culture analogies to edutain the masses when it’s seen every movie and read every book, we humans fed it. Is Uncanny Valley Community College really so far off? Especially considering an essential fact that must be faced: used correctly, the tech is a great writing teacher.

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

Dr Catlin Tucker And right now she is an AI teacher on special assignment for Saddleback Valley USD, where she focuses on integrating artificial intelligence for inclusive practices and is helping to lead kind of the roll out for AI implementation in the district. We have to think, you know, is an essay the right thing?

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Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 195

k12 Online Schools

MAY 7, 2025

Building a Digital Learning Culture In a traditional classroom, culture is built through physical presence: greetings at the door, shared lunchtime, or spontaneous group work. Instead of writing an essay on climate change, a student might create a short documentary and post it on YouTube.

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Online Learning Ethics Education Learning 52

EAB

JULY 11, 2023

EAB’s Wenie Lado is joined by Dr. Brian Peterson from the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches, advises students, and serves as the Director of Penn’s Makuu Black Cultural Center. So I am Dr. Brian Peterson I run University of Pennsylvania's Black Cultural Center, which is called Makuu. DP: Absolutely. No I'm great.

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Culture History Questions Essay 40

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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Essay Education Culture Elementary School 167

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

During the next hour, we embarked on the work of historians – uncovering hidden details of the past, weaving oft-overlooked stories into narratives that illuminated our understanding of history, identity and culture.

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Teachers History Education Learning 198

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The well-known, well-taught, and frustratingly heartbreaking story of Lia Lee is about a Hmong child who, as Fadiman diagnoses, dies from “cross-cultural misunderstanding,” not septic shock or noncompliant parents (Fadiman, 1997, 262). All vital issues to help us consider the narrative more deeply and the stories within the narrative.

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English Culture Writing Language 116

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The well-known, well-taught, and frustratingly heartbreaking story of Lia Lee is about a Hmong child who, as Fadiman diagnoses, dies from “cross-cultural misunderstanding,” not septic shock or noncompliant parents (Fadiman, 1997, 262). All vital issues to help us consider the narrative more deeply and the stories within the narrative.

English 111

English Culture Writing Language 111

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

They can also be more hypothetical, like the situational judgment test that medical schools use to assess behavioral skills that doctors need, like teamwork, resilience and cultural competency. He says they also want to emphasize behavioral and affective skills, like emotional intelligence, empathy and collaboration.

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Skills Learning Testing High School 217

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. Assign writing that relies on student perspective, experience, and cultural capital.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. Assign writing that relies on student perspective, experience, and cultural capital.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2019

Her application essay opened with an anecdote from her sophomore English class: She noticed that every author on the class reading list was a “dead, straight, white male,” as she summarized it. One of the subtle but crucial changes I’ve noticed in the past year or two is in how intelligently students discuss the issues they care about.

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