eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI-powered tools have entered the educational landscape, and theyve changed the way I teach writing–particularly persuasive writing. 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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 18, 2023

Many students dread IB essays. Read how to draft an IB extended essay below Writing Strategies for an Extended Essay in the International Baccalaureate Program IB is a rigorous two-year project for personal and academic development. But like all educational qualifications , it involves various intricate processes.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. Think of SAT requiring essay writing or IELTS and TOEFL measuring writing abilities.

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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2017

You take a student’s essay, start reading it, and it doesn’t feel right. You go to PlagiarismCheck , Copyscape , or any other resource to check that essay for plagiarism and…ta da! The essay has obvious signs of plagiarism. The essay has obvious signs of plagiarism. Everything starts with suspicion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Communication as a student in a foreign land depends heavily on knowledge of the language. The Ask a Tech Teacher international team has a few broader issues to think about when considering what barriers face students in foreign lands: Language: The Biggest Communication Barrier for Foreign Students? A new adventure begins for you.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It is that flexibility that is so exciting given the challenges facing educators and educational institutions. What: Teaching techniques designed to meet the needs of a diverse group of learners with varied needs, skills, abilities, and language proficiencies. Consuming new information (e.g.,

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

[ Editor’s note : “My Tech Essentials” is a new monthly feature on eSchool News that highlights the choice of ‘must-have’ technology used by one tech-savvy educator; with the hope that other educators might also find these peer-tested tools useful. Be sure to check back every month for a new “My Tech Essentials.”].

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Yet, in the educational space, AI often stirs fear and skepticism among educators. Misconceptions about AI in education 1. While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. Instead of banning AI, educators can design assignments that leverage these tools.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2019

In my classroom, I teach students computational thinking through free materials from Ignite My Future in School , a partnership between Tata Consultancy Services and Discovery Education. When they read a new book or prepare to write an essay, their process must begin with finding data.

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Skills Essay Critical Thinking Learning Styles 279

eSchool News

MAY 22, 2017

I feel confident that education will always be needed; but, occasionally I wonder if writing education has value in a computer-driven world. In addition to the design phase, Schwab highlights the use a mastery of language has in a world being ever-tailored to the masses. Being clear and concise has never been more important.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

Combining PBL with makerspaces (also called maker education) gives educators an infinite number of projects, assignments, and activities that engage students and truly immerse them in learning. Maker education is when a person can demonstrate understanding through the creation of an artifact. Why maker education?

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The university has created a way for automated software to give students in large STEM courses feedback on their writing in cases where professors don’t have time to grade hundreds of essays. Wilson researches the application of automated essay scoring. “I I think people who outright reject these systems forget what the status quo is.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

announced the 10 winners in its first Emergent Bilingual Educators of the Year award program. A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). Rosetta Stone Inc. About Rosetta Stone.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

So, I know firsthand how important equitable access to resources is, and how hard we educators work to set our students up for success. This enhances their educational experience and cultivates a generation of informed, active citizens who are equipped to contribute positively to society. From lessons focused on the U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Teach your students to count to 10, order food in a restaurant, or just say “good morning” by using a language-learning product such as Mango Classroom , Rosetta Stone , or Duolingo. Find poetry, essays, memoirs, and short stories by Hispanic and Latinx authors or about Hispanic and Latinx culture to read aloud. Learn Spanish!

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. Carnegie Learning’s MATHia gives educators real-time feedback and assessments to help them understand where students are and where they’re headed.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Key points: Gen AI is a game changer for all industries due to its ability to produce original outputs Don’t miss out–stay up to date on AI in Education Can artificial intelligence help teachers improve? Gen AI is set to revolutionize the way we approach education. Gen AI is flipping this on its head.

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Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 339

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

When ChatGPT and other new generative AI tools emerged in late 2022, the major concern for educators was cheating. And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue. Teachers in K-12 schools are also beginning to push for similar protections against AI replacing educators.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2016

And, on Quizalize, every quiz you find has been created to be both educational and fun. There are even learning resources for English as a Second Language students. Boom Essay’s Grammar Guide outlines the basics everyone should know in order to get their message across clearly and without error. Boomessays.

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Essay Writing English Language 275

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

In higher education, predictive analytics often draw from data that an institution has readily available about its students: grades, attendance, online school-related activity, and even historical and demographic information. According to Strasser, that data is then turned into structured data and given a “correlations risk.”

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

No wonder: This language model algorithm is smart enough to produce logical and grammatically correct texts for any prompt. According to a new study from Academic Help , 67 percent of students use AI for creating texts – the basis for their essays and other papers. The issue here is not only about the academic integrity violation.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

From AI-powered tutoring that adapts to each student’s needs to real-time language translation for multilingual learners, these tools offer endless possibilities. This can be helpful in reverse as well–if students are more comfortable writing in their native language, they can do so, and then the TA can translate it.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In 1990, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) renewed our national focus on the least-restrictive environment. As more and more students were educated with their peers, we started to realize that having all students read the same book and take the same test doesn’t work.

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Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Yet noble individuals press forward and choose to educate our children anyway. From 2012-2018, nearly 2,800 preservice teachers within one of the largest teacher preparation programs in Texas responded to an essay prompt, “Explain why you decided to become a teacher.” Why, in spite of the headwinds, do they become teachers?

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Motivation Teachers Essay Language 209

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

In today’s educational landscape, the emphasis on inclusion and creating the least restrictive environments for students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) has significantly reshaped classroom dynamics. This post is a Noelle Gutierrez & Catlin Tucker collaboration.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These made using AI easy enough for anyone and a viable tool for educators and students. 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. This saves teachers time, while giving students quicker feedback.

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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 183

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

In higher education, predictive analytics often draw from data that an institution has readily available about its students: grades, attendance, online school-related activity, and even historical and demographic information. According to Strasser, that data is then turned into structured data and given a “correlations risk.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

We recently completed an evaluation of an AI-equipped platform through which middle school students could draft, submit and revise argumentative essays in response to pre-curated writing prompts. This yielded a total of 160 teacher-assessed essays, which we could compare directly to the AI-given scores and feedback on those same essays.

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Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 186

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

While I don’t agree that the Wolfram Language is superior to every other modern programming language, from C and Java to Python and Scratch, I think he makes some very compelling points. I completely agree that computational thinking is critical to a well-rounded computer science education. how the internet works.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Using technology to score essays is nothing new. 20 years ago as a student.

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Fairness Testing Grades Essay 198

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

in business, and now diving into a Doctorate in education. The MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI Working Paper highlights AI’s manifold advantages to higher education. Whether crafting essays, conducting research, or aiding in multidimensional tasks, AI’s role is undeniable and pivotal.

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Essay Writing Critical Thinking Language 286

eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How do you know when a student has turned in a good essay? But educators need a more concrete definition they can apply consistently across all subject areas. In other words, she said, is the essay effective in communicating its ideas? For instance, an argumentative essay must make an effective claim.

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Writing Essay Feedback Evaluation 197

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

There’s a new application of AI in education, and educators aren’t going to like it. For instance, after subscribing to a service called EssaySoft, you can tell its essay generator to write a paper on, say, “symbolism in the great Gatsby” (or whatever you need for class). Except that educators aren’t laughing.

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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. If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? Should they disclose that to students?

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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). Translating phrases into Spanish helped him connect new terms to his native language.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Language 165

eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

includes new student and educator interfaces, advancements in content recommendations based upon individual student interests and Lexile reading level, gamification, and improved enhancements to the state-of-the-art monitoring and reporting functions. myON has announced a redesign of its personalized literacy environment for PreK-12.

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