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MARCH 22, 2023

It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing. They scored ChatGPT’s work using the same College Board rubric their essays were evaluated against.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

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). Oh, and if you don’t like it, just click “re-generate” and get a new bot-written essay. They can just have the essay generator do it.”

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AUGUST 5, 2024

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.” We used a natural language processing algorithm to review their responses.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

How AI supports metacognition: Sauls story Saul, a grade 10 student at the intermediate proficiency level, speaks Spanish and is navigating the challenge of learning academic English while excelling in his coursework. Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Why do we need a required writing course if AI can do everything outside stakeholders want such a course to teach? ,” asked Melissa Nicolas, a professor of English at Washington State University, in an op-ed last year. So where does AI leave the writing center? AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says.

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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.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo, powered by ChatGPT technology, includes features meant to help students work through math and science problems, analyze text, chat with historical figures, navigate college admissions, and revise essays, among other features. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m a special education teacher serving students in a self-contained class, and all of my students have moderate to severe learning disabilities including ADHD, intellectual disabilities, emotional disabilities, specific learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. With assistance, he was able to produce a five-paragraph essay.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 172

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MAY 23, 2024

When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments — that they’d click a button on a chatbot instead of doing the thinking involved in responding to an essay prompt themselves.

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Writing Teaching Essay Languages 208

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AUGUST 21, 2024

This essay was adapted from a piece posted on Medium. I have changed their names in this essay to protect their privacy and they’ve agreed to have their story shared.) I looked at the form myself, and even as a native English speaker, it felt daunting. Dara needed to fill out an I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition form.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Professors may draw on textbooks like “ Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities ” and also on eclectic “texts” from a variety of media, such as the art websites of Rafaël Rozendaal, the interactive explanatory projects of Nicky Case and the visual essays published by The Pudding. Anderson says.

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JULY 10, 2024

My students enjoyed it so much that since then, we have participated in several including a one-pager challenge where students respond to a New York Times story, a contest where students submit an original podcast and a contest where students can share opinion essays on issues they care deeply about.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

Many educators who use the approach, which is often called process tracking, do so as an alternative to running student work through AI detectors, which are prone to falsely accusing students , especially those who dont speak English as their first language.

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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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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Nobody in the “learn to code” movement argues for this, and every educator would agree with Wolfram's analogy that teaching raw coding syntax alone would be like teaching English handwriting without teaching how to write an essay. More importantly, there is no “best” platform for teaching computer science.

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Science English Education Languages 157

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! I think all educators grew concerned. I was at a crossroads; I didn't want students to use it because I didn't want academic dishonesty, but I also knew this technology would not go away. And at first, our school blocked its use.

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Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 207

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JANUARY 9, 2018

Galen McAndrew, a teacher at d.tech, told EdSurge that design thinking offers students a different approach to solving problems in a variety of subjects, like math and English. McAndrew used an example of a student writing an essay in an English class.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 325

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

With all the changes and challenges over the last year, one takeaway I keep reflecting on is how essential education technology has become to learning—and how quickly this transition occurred. I have long believed that edtech has the power to open up opportunities for students and change how educators teach.

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

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JANUARY 23, 2017

I went to a liberal arts college and spent most of my undergrad years not focusing particularly closely on the computer science coursework, but instead focusing on different areas of political science, of English. When I began talking to education companies, it was clear that the emphasis was on measuring student learning.

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Achievement Writing Essay Language 163

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

billion in venture capital, according to EdSurge data—most notably Chinese startups that connect local students with English tutors. The tool includes an essay-review feature where a Gradeslam tutor will give feedback on students’ drafts within 24 hours. Since 2016, these companies have raised more than $1.2

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Offering multiple deadlines is helpful, she says — especially with essays — since she can get help on her rough draft and feel more confident about the final one. All of a sudden I was excited to write essays because Sarah was just like, so excited to talk about writing essays,” Martens says.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

The head and the heart are connected, and our schools, curriculum, and education technology should reflect this. The head and the heart are connected, and our schools, curriculum, and education technology should reflect this. Kiddom is just a one education technology company.

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Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 167

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. Read Aloud is a rather self-explanatory extension for listening to websites or text selections in spoken form.

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Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

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JUNE 29, 2021

It sounds at first like a typical assignment for a high school English class. Students at Belmont Hill School are asked to think of someone they encounter in their daily lives who might need a financial boost and record a short video essay about them and why they’re important in their lives.

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Assignments Essay Students English 166

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2017

When it comes to writing and technology, some studies suggest that handwriting is better for memory —but Ron Kellogg, a professor in cognition and neuroscience at the University of St. He explains that writing an essay or report is a complex process that combines language production, memory retrieval and thinking ability.

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Writing Essay Learning English 148

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Just as the technological revolution of the printing press democratized the authorship and distribution of books, so too does social media and the internet allow for more voices to be heard and for a wide variety of authors—including our students—to connect with audiences around the world.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

When and how should students learn social and emotional skills—between first-period biology and third-period English literature? After lunch and before U.S.

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Skills Essay Beliefs Students 168

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JULY 6, 2023

It’s the next step,” says Shelly Ruff, a former fifth grade teacher who found out her teenage son has used ChatGPT to write his essays. The gig comes with low pay, unpredictable course loads, and only occasionally health insurance.

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Reading Essay Lecturing Writing 139

Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

The result: He eventually graduated college as an English major. Instead of requiring every student to complete a worksheet or a test, allow them to write an essay, create a slide deck or make a podcast. Provide an array of options with technology to support students in expressing what they learned,” suggests Bugaj.

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Universal Design Disabilities Mobile Devices Students 210

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

As an English teacher with 24 years of experience, I often feel I’ve explored every possible avenue to help my students grow as writers. That is truer today than ever as new technology has increased the instructional possibilities, and evidence-based, on-demand testing has forced me to get creative.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 120

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I think students are reading and writing more than ever,” says Jeremy Hyler, an eighth-grade English teacher at Fulton Middle School in Michigan. “Is Of course, there’s still a place for longform essays and formal writing, and strong writing instruction will effectively incorporate both, she says. Is it quality writing? It’s a process.

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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Hybrid Courses Languages Language English 79

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

But “there’s an even more basic level of literacy that people need to pick up,” notes the former English teacher and administrator. Teachers can choose a lesson in the program, which guides students through a multi-step process to analyze the reading materials and write a response essay. Like how to write an email.”

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Textbooks Essay Writing English 270

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

Most of his customers did not speak English as their first language, he says, and others seemed to lack the preparation for the work they were being asked to do. We encourage our customers to use the work we provide as a guide,” says Avery Morgan, a spokesperson for EduBirdie, which advertises itself as a “professional essay writing service.”

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Essay Writing Academic Integrity Students 159

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

West-Smith, a former English teacher, middle-school principal, and district curriculum supervisor, is the Curriculum Content Manager at. based educational software company best known for its plagiarism-detection tools. Prompts, Essays and More. Patti West-Smith has her eye on the solution. Patti West-Smith.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 132

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The essay, in particular, appeared to be key in distinguishing between students who finished and didn’t finish their applications. Out of the students who eventually applied, 94 percent wrote at least 100 characters for their essay; whereas just 43 percent of students who did not write at least that much ended up applying.

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Counselling Essay Students Study 210