eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Databases provide full-text access to a wide range of content, including books, magazines, primary sources, images, charts, and peer-reviewed articles by credible authors representing diverse perspectives. Library databases are also powerful tools for educators. They can also be confident that the materials are trustworthy.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Educators love to share their successes, learn from the success of other schools and districts, and they also love to share lessons they learned along their journey. One of the district’s top technology initiatives : Fifth and eighth grade students partnered on a peer-reviewed argument writing assigment.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

Educators have been trying to curb the use of AI-assisted cheating since ChatGPT exploded onto the scene. Teachers are transitioning away from question-and-answer assignments or straightforward essays — in favor of projects. Savage says educators in his district will spend the summer working on making their lesson plans “AI-proof.” “AI

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Instead, I decided to enhance my approach to problem solving by incorporating peer review—letting students participate in the feedback and assessment process. I then had each review work by three other students according to a feedback rubric I created; I moderated the process throughout. Advice for effective peer review.

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Feedback Peer Review Critical Thinking Assignments 141

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

Cook, who is editor in chief at the experimental academic publisher Allegra Lab , ended up becoming a podcaster himself, and a fan of the growing number of podcasts made by other professors and educators. To research the volume, he interviewed 101 podcasters in education, asking them about their motivations and views on the craft.

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Teach Thought

JULY 20, 2024

See also 10 Roles For Artificial Intelligence In Education 2. Reflective Writing Encourage students to reflect on their learning Journals and Essays: Keep journals or write essays on AI concepts and future predictions. Peer Reviews: Foster collaborative learning through peer reviews of reflections and essays.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Many institutions still rely on Turnitin, but the professionals who must check dozens of essays on a daily basis know that this expensive service can be way too slow. . That’s quite an advantage since copied materials often come from peer-reviewed articles. The high price can irritate even the most profitable institutions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted daily life for virtually every educator, parent, and student in the U.S. It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being. You can read part one here.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As the educators I spoke with lamented, “the product is so hard to assess.” He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 110

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative). Students can do a self-reflection upon finishing the draft, and also engage in anonymous peer-reviews of each other’s work. based company.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

In addition to assessing students’ grades and essays, admissions officers have long looked to the SAT and ACT to help them decide who will make it in their campus settings, and beyond. But the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the sudden decision by many colleges to make submitting such scores optional. “I

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 13, 2019

If they’re short answer or essay — the preferred way to check understanding — grading takes a long time. Why peer feedback? Peer feedback is about supporting and learning, not criticizing. Each peer review should include positives and shortfalls in equal amounts. Make the peer reviewer anonymous.

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Feedback Peer Review Writing Critical Thinking 91

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. As both formative and summative assessments have a distinct purpose, they are used simultaneously in educational settings.

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. As both formative and summative assessments have a distinct purpose, they are used simultaneously in educational settings.

Fairness 109

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 109

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 75

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

When students share organic ideas and peer review projects, they build authentic knowledge that everyone takes ownership in, but the saying is easier than the doing. Educational Activities. This should follow the well-accepted five-paragraph essay used in many elementary classrooms. Educational applications.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Peer review. Conduct a peer review and/or class discussion of AI writing. There is so much more to writing than the act of composing sentences that I do not think we need to fear AI will be the death knell of composition in education. We can adjust now to facilitate it doing so hand-in-hand with higher education.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Peer review. Conduct a peer review and/or class discussion of AI writing. There is so much more to writing than the act of composing sentences that I do not think we need to fear AI will be the death knell of composition in education. We can adjust now to facilitate it doing so hand-in-hand with higher education.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

When a scholar did a YouTube search for the term “public education” recently, the results painted a bleak picture of the nation’s schools and state colleges. A substantial amount of these videos contained blunt attacks on public education,” Keskin writes in the paper. Keskin himself is a proponent, and a product, of public education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A new peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Public Humanities , aims to strengthen the connections between university-based humanities work and the wider world, creating a space for academics and practitioners to share what they do and how they do it. Hes editing a forthcoming special issue on The Public Humanities in Action.

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