Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

It begs the question, What is the value of racing through material if students don’t understand or retain it? 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.

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Teachers Art Feedback Writing 481

Edsurge

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. Photo: Karen McDonald) To break the ice, I responded to the question myself, giving students sample language that they could use.

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Culture Feedback Writing Assignments 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Essay Mobile Devices Exams Writing 99

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

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 205

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2024

Heath posed a question that I can’t seem to shake. Mishra and Heath admit they don’t have the answer, but say they think it’s an important question for educators and scholars to consider. Postman explained the importance of memory in a culture without writing, but how in a culture with writing, memory is considered a waste of time.

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Teachers Essay Writing Culture 218

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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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High School High School Essay Fairness 159

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

Teachers’ perspectives on the rubric underscore the questions we must continue to ask as edtech products embed and evolve logics that reduce—rather than increase—transparency in how the technology facilitates student learning. 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

DECEMBER 6, 2024

These days, proponents of learning analytics are exploring how the advent of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools bring new possibilities and raise new ethical questions for the practice. 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.

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Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 205

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

But as generative AI tools like ChatGPT sweep into mainstream business tools, promising to draft properly-formatted text from simple prompts and the click of a button, new questions are rising about what role writing centers should play — or whether they will be needed in the future. Does it represent my voice?

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Writing Instructors Essay English 206

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

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. What if that teacher, the student in question and I sat down together and had a consensual conversation with the student to better understand their needs? How can I do that?”

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Teachers Culture Essay Classroom Management 202

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 201

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the midst of his presentation, he posed a question to the group that deeply resonated with me: Are you comfortable leading a school where kids love themselves but fail academically? Yet, the question lingered, even after I left the retreat. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., And this isn’t a new conversation.

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 197

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

What a good question. 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.

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 81

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When students learn to ask deep questions, analyze texts and construct evidence-based arguments, they are equipped with skills that reach far beyond a history classroom. Good history education empowers students to actively engage with the past they study, rather than being passive receivers of historical narratives.

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History Education Social Studies Essay 201

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. Take half of one class to let students organize their team, review questions, strategize, and prepare for the Challenge, which will take all of the next class. Ask a question within that category. Students love this game.

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2024

I was overwhelmed, so I asked a lot of questions in rapid-fire succession, and in my quest for answers, I disregarded my colleague’s need to feel supported due to my own internalized pressure to perform. As I reflected on our encounter, these questions played on loop in my brain like a ribbon display screen at the Barclays.

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Essay Exams Culture Coaching 203

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. These strategies helped me feel less alone during periods of frustration or struggle.

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Science Education Learning Essay 218

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. Take half of one class to let students organize their team, review questions, strategize, and prepare for the Challenge, which will take all of the next class. Ask a question within that category. or another that you prefer.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It Starts in the Community I grew up in northeast Denver — a place rich in Black history and culture where the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education enacted the Black Excellence Resolution. Recognizing her potential as a math scholar, I encouraged her to ask questions, embrace mistakes and find motivation in difficult tasks.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

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 248

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

I had just transitioned back into the classroom at Latin School of Chicago from a job in publishing and this was not the kind of question that I had prepared myself to answer. Yet there were still so many questions to answer. This is not a new idea, but logistically and culturally it still raised challenges and stirred reactions.

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Grades Essay Languages Language 129

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. Have them show you how they’re writing and ask them questions: ‘Why are you writing that way?’ It’s a process.

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2016

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! The surefire way to get to know your audience is to ask questions and listen to the answers. What challenge is technology solving for?

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Essay Culture Reading Questions 140

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

For DoAmaral, the transition from the classroom was guided by a simple question: “I’m a teacher and I know what students need. DoAmaral recalls watching “Shark Tank” together to practice how they would answer questions from investors one day. How can I bring what I know to more students?” It was a date I will never forget.

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Testing Exams Teachers History 158

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

The question is one that many professors fear is essentially coming to colleges, as higher-ed leaders adopt practices from businesses in an attempt to rethink their operations. We often ask students to write an essay of 3,000 words on a topic, and it must have six learning outcomes ,” he said. “So Do you want fries with that education?

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Essay Learning Outcomes Writing Culture 149

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

He passed away the other day, and you can read an essay looking back at his life and work that we published at EdSurge. We think that we need to understand our own culture, our own forces, and try to come up with some theories about how we will change and how we must change.

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Education History Art Essay 212

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe, an associate professor of writing, rhetoric and American cultures at Michigan State University “The question that usually comes up is, ‘I don’t have enough time and I don’t have enough money.’ As one instructor wrote in an essay last year , “everyone lost something in HyFlex courses. What’s the ‘Gold Standard’?

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Teaching Instructors Lecturing Blended Courses 209

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

A new AI chatbot can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. Students are already figuring out they can use it to write their essays, and educators are pondering how to adapt. What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 147

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Literary non-fiction was the unit, which meant the students were learning about essays, articles, and speeches. I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.”.

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Writing Teaching Students Languages 149

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

But this kind of rhetoric irks Clay Shirky, the vice provost for educational technologies at New York University and an influential voice on how technology is changing our culture. About once a month, he puts out a new essay about the many complex forces acting on higher ed these days—highlighting some ways true transformation is happening.

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Online Learning Interdisciplinary Essay Learning 168

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

So he set up an early version of his threaded video chat system and asked the students to send in video responses to questions, and he replied in kind from a distance. In joining Microsoft, Flipgrid will retain its distinct brand, culture, and team focused on amplifying the voices of all students,” said the news release.

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Discussions Essay Instructors Internet 126

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

They’re asking students to send in short video responses to questions or share their arguments by submitting short video presentations. So he set up an early version of his threaded video chat system and asked the students to send in video responses to questions instead, and he replied in kind from a distance.

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Instructors Discussions Course Evaluations Writing 152

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

If they’re programming their robot to dance, they may all choose dances from around the world, but each students’ might be from a different culture. Rethinking Assessment Evaluating play-based learning isn’t as simple as grading a worksheet or even an essay. Take KIBO , a robot kit I developed, for example.

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Failure Art Essay Math 166

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

It’s about changing the culture and mindset of a school. This can be a real shift in school culture, and that can be daunting for an educator. These explorations go much deeper than writing an essay or performing a play. Little did I know that creating these clubs isn’t just about preparing students to speak on stage.

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Students Participation Essay Culture 166