eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

To illustrate this point, consider these three things educational technology can’t do. Technology can’t … provide higher-order feedback. Consider, for example, essay grading. Software is great for generating immediate, automated feedback on students’ mastery of basic knowledge and skills.

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Edsurge

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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the mid-1950s, schools would adopt localized, attached libraries in which librarians are considered qualified teachers, educating both students and instructors. Because of these dramatic changes to the world of education, the expectations and responsibilities of school library faculty have understandably seen a dramatic shift as well.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Additionally, multimedia projects offer educators alternative ways to see evidence of student thinking. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations, Washington, DC, 2023. 2023, July 27).

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Edsurge

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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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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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, today released its much anticipated What Kids Are Reading report for 2021. I have noticed with the use of myON that students are reading so much more on their own than I have seen them read in the past.”.

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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 175

Edsurge

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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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Using technology to score essays is nothing new. Still, some educators and parents alike felt blindsided by the news about auto-grading essays for K-12 students. She’s spent much of her career thinking about how education technology and assessments can be improved for bilingual children.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The homework assignments, essays, musings and instant messages today’s students are tapping into educational websites and applications would be subject to new data privacy standards under legislation introduced today in Harrisburg. Privacy legislation would require more communication between districts, parents. Dan Miller, D-Mt.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation. That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay. That helped me finish that part of the essay. UCL Institute of Education Press. and Che Guevara.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

A headline in the Atlantic magazine put it bluntly: “Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay?” On this week’s podcast, we’re looking at the potential impact of this new AI tool by talking to a couple of educators who have used the chatbot and already had some surprising interactions.

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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.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

This new solution enable educators with an integrated Khanmigo experience that supports human-driven, technology-enhanced essay feedback and grading, lesson planning and rubric creation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2015

I teach graduate level courses about educational technology, such as Online Tools for Teaching and Learning. During the first day of the semester, one of my students commented: “Your class is the easiest class I have this semester. You don’t have any tests.” I laughed, but the student was serious.

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Testing Essay Knowledge Discussions 186

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

EdSurge re-opened the conversation on Wednesday with a group of educators and education technology entreprepreneurs at a meetup in the Big Apple. Speakers quickly contextualized the technology with the shift in how widely available data is today. “We So how does machine learning really change the status quo? (Or

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

A mid-March survey by HolonIQ, an education market research firm, of the impact of COVID-19 on organizations suggests that educational institutions will be hit hard : 91 percent of respondents indicated they expect to be moderately or substantially worse off in the short term. Follow people whom you admire.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 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! Where do you hope education technology will go in 2017? Here’s what Jeffrey Dunn, president and CEO of Sesame Workshop , had to say. "Oh,

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

This week Educause released the higher education edition of the Horizon Report for 2019 , and for the first time it looked back on how well past reports did at accurately predicting what would be on the horizon. One of those essays is on “gaming and gamification.” Susan Grajek, vice president of communities and research for Educause.

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Edsurge

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 204

Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2017

I did not know how to use headers, footers or page number in Microsoft Word, so I got five points off every essay for an entire semester. For classrooms that expect students to collaborate online and write long essays, lacking these resources puts them at an academic disadvantage.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Part of the problem, he says, is technology. In some cases the very technologies that were intended to improve writing, like automatic-essay grading software, have backfired by encouraging a kind of paint-by-numbers approach to writing. A lot of my students arrive having written exclusively five-paragraph essays.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

As trusted mentors and professional development leaders, they guide teachers in implementing AI tools thoughtfully, ensuring that technology enhances student learning while aligning with pedagogical best practices. They encourage teachers and students to utilize AI for brainstorming, outlining essays, and improving writing mechanics.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 214

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

To be clear, the students all had to write an essay about what they talked about with their conversation partners in the senior living home, and these essays were supposed to demonstrate some of what they learned. The students weren’t the only ones with some anxiety about this idea.

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Exams Essay Syllabus Writing 171

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

During virtual learning from 2020 to 2021, that was condensed to 60 minutes and we spent much of our time focused on reading texts, answering text dependent questions and writing essays. Throughout the year, John went from barely writing a sentence to crafting five-paragraph essays with the support of that tool.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Topping our monthly Top 5 list was a look at how professors are rebooting oral exams to respond to concerns that students can now use ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat on essays. Also making the list was an essay by a teacher launched into a leadership position at age 26 reflecting on a lack of support during the shift.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

She encourages her students to use MyEssayFeedback, an AI tool that critiques the organization of an essay, the quality of evidence a student has included to support their thesis or the tone of the writing. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says.

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Writing Instructors Essay English 201

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT, which can generate original text that seems like it was written by a human, educators have expressed concern about students using the tool to write their essays for them. So naturally, companies are rushing to create tools that they say can help detect when text is written by a bot.

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Essay Writing Reading Questions 187

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Bryan Alexander For my course on Studies in Educational Technology, I wanted to bring all of that in as objects of study—as well as discuss practical decisions for our collective learning experience. Our touchpoint as we began was Neil Selwyn’s excellent Education and Technology: Key Issues and Debates.

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Edsurge

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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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

. — Tony DePrato “In my eighteen years of working in education … I’ve never encountered a platform that requires such a bizarre consent letter,” wrote Tony DePrato, chief information officer at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Mississippi, in an essay earlier this year.

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Academic Integrity Assignments Essay Schools 191