Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Analytical Essay + Book Promo/Trailer Video There are many blog posts out there encouraging teachers to choose assignments other than essays. As a teacher coach, I’m not encouraging teachers to throw out the practice of assigning, reading, giving feedback on and correcting essays. The final products are compelling!

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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. When students can understand how one topic might be covered in English, History and Science, they’re able to grasp it more deeply.

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High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 211

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching metacognition equips ELLs with the tools needed to navigate not only language acquisition but also the demands of various subject areas, from math and science to history and literature (Flavell, 1979; Schraw & Moshman, 1995). That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Language 165

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The teacher’s 10th grade class had just finished op-ed essays on a topic of their choice, and Kyle had chosen to examine the economic impact of illegal immigration on the U.S.

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Essay Beliefs Language Languages 168

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

As the media specialist, I created the annual “Barrow Peace Prize” project in collaboration with the 2 nd grade classroom teachers and art teacher, where students from across all the second-grade sections pick six nominees from civil rights history and decide what attributes the winner must embody.

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Essay Learning Styles Students Elementary School 177

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. Or, “allow students to comment on each others’ work to foster discussion.”

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Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2024

But too often, in discussions around AI in education, we get stuck on the notion of cheating and miss out on more interesting questions: How can these new tools make us more creative? The television person values immediacy, not history. Is the patina of her experience as valuable as she thinks and moves on the court? What is the cost?

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Teachers Essay Writing Culture 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. Davis and his Downey colleagues discuss the district's edtech adoption journey. History course assignment about the Constitution. They can be anywhere and be part of the class.

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Teachers Students Special Education History 200

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. Inspire students with a walk outside, complete with notebooks, sunshine, and lots of topics for discussion. Is history an important class for todays teenagers, or is it a waste of time?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

Bryan Alexander Audio has a long history that is important for edtech folks to understand. He even tracked down a recording of Campbell reading his essay aloud, sampled it, then excerpted it in his finished work—all on their own, without my prompting it We started class with a dive into audio history.

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Essay Teaching History Learning 123

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2018

Whether you call it “right fit,” “best fit” or good fit, the concept of an institution being a suitable match for a student’s needs—be they social or academic—is probably one you’ve read about or discussed in the classroom or at the dinner table. But does AI have a role on the admissions office side of the process?

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Essay Students Intelligence History 159

Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

When I went to Google Docs and clicked on version history, I was only getting days of drafts saved rather than actual changes made during a composing session. So, I continued my online search and found how to use Google Docs’ detailed version history by clicking on the arrow by the date next to version. Revision history in Google Docs.

Academic Integrity 116

Academic Integrity Essay Plagiarism History 116

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 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! For the first time in human history, our challenge is having too much access to information. And as Dr. Seuss wrote, “Today is your day!

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Critical Thinking Internet Essay History 158

Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

When I went to Google Docs and clicked on version history, I was only getting days of drafts saved rather than actual changes made during a composing session. So, I continued my online search and found how to use Google Docs’ detailed version history by clicking on the arrow by the date next to version. Revision history in Google Docs.

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Academic Integrity Essay Plagiarism History 111

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. Source: Marina Umaschi Bers In my Python course, there were a variety of strategies my professor used to promote these behaviors.

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Science Education Learning Essay 218

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. Maloney: Part of it is recognizing that higher ed has had a history of change throughout its entire existence. We also have an opportunity not to get mired in that long history.

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Education History Art Essay 207

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Whether it’s a group of retirees who cluster in the back of your corner coffee shop or the so-called Ponzi schemes of MFA programs like the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, assessment comes in the form of peer feedback—marginalia and discussion. It also helps break down the barrier between critical and creative thinking.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 113

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

This inspired me to seek out a game, or online environment, that could provide more expansive experiences for them—a place that would allow them to explore, on their own or with others, and where I could embed history content for them to discover. On Twitter I came across an exploratory discussion of Minecraft’s potential for school use.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Essay Discussions 168

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. With other current events, I’m quick to brush up on the latest news, curating articles for my students to discuss in class.

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English Culture Syllabus Writing 201

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

It was a podcast version of the BBC radio show In Our Time, where a panel of academics discussed the history of ideas. And he came away with some common themes, no matter what subject matter the podcasters taught and discussed. Some people just switch out a written assignment for an audio assignment. And I've done this myself.

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Teaching Peer Review Essay Knowledge 148

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

Performance assessment varies, with students submitting essays, videos or presentations to demonstrate they’ve learned the material. Neem, associate professor of history at Western Washington University, in a critique of the model. “If WGU offers us a vision of the university without intellectuals,” wrote Johann N.

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Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 177

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

While ChatGPT seems to have sprung up overnight to dominate current headlines, legislative discussions, and professional debates—ranging from doomsday predictions to practical celebrations related to improved efficiency with menial labor tasks—the introduction of this online Artificial Intelligence (AI) program can be traced back to 2018.

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Assignments History Art Ethics 124

Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

Using these tools, schools can filter web content; monitor students’ search engine queries and browsing history; view students’ emails, messages and social media content; and/or view their screens in real-time. Parents have become increasingly wary of this practice.

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Schools Counselling Students Internet 162

Teach Hub

MARCH 29, 2024

Discuss the positions of the Earth, sun, and moon and how they align to create a solar eclipse. Discuss the different types of eclipses such as the total, partial, and annual, and have students research if the eclipse is visible where you live. Be sure to discuss safety measures such as eclipse viewing glasses.

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Learning Science English Essay 111

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Then they read and discuss a poem, “What You Missed that Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade,” which starts like this: Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas, how peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer. Should their essays have a thesis statement?

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 178

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. Source: Marina Umaschi Bers In my Python course, there were a variety of strategies my professor used to promote these behaviors.

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Science Education Learning Essay 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Assessing student learning used to be as simple as giving a test that consisted of multiple choice, True/False, short answer, and/or essay. Classtools Mapmaker Game enables teachers and students to create maps that track the plot of a book, record the progress of history, or share a tour of geographic locations. Discussion Boards.

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Learning Essay Students Testing 104

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. The collected data from students can be used to start a discussion. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 110

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Differences in lived experiences, values, beliefs, histories, identities, and more will influence how individual students experience the learning environment (Lovett, Bridges, DiPietro, Ambrose, & Norman, 2023). For example, before an exam, I discuss how and why I would prepare differently for a multiple-choice versus an essay exam.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

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.

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Education Intelligence History Essay 140

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Presentations : While the above-mentioned activities can be followed by presentations, students can engage in other forms of oral presentations such as panel discussions, seminars, and debates. Reenactments : Students might create a reenactment of an event they took in their history course or any past event such as a political agreement.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When ChatGPT was first released, questions swirled around higher ed about it stoking an increase in plagiarism, promoting a lack of critical thinking, and what the future would hold for classic functions like the college admission essay. In education, it’s about getting to the same point on the mountain, no matter where the learner starts.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

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

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. The collected data from students can be used to start a discussion. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

Teaching 98

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

By immersing students in dynamic activities, stimulating discussions, and collaborative endeavors, educators can transcend the limitations of the digital realm and revolutionize online teaching. For example, in a history course, students can form groups to research and present on different historical events or periods.

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Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

By immersing students in dynamic activities, stimulating discussions, and collaborative endeavors, educators can transcend the limitations of the digital realm and revolutionize online teaching. For example, in a history course, students can form groups to research and present on different historical events or periods.

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Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 97