Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

And what it takes to make these products effective, and how to boost student learning equitably and ethically, remains an ongoing debate. EdSurge re-opened the conversation on Wednesday with a group of educators and education technology entreprepreneurs at a meetup in the Big Apple. It’s the holy grail.”

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Essay Education Learning Ethics 166

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?”

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

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.

Art 212

Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 212

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

These days, proponents of learning analytics are exploring how the advent of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools bring new possibilities and raise new ethical questions for the practice. One possible application is to use new AI tools to help educators and researchers make sense of all the student data theyve been collecting.

Learning 200

Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 200

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

It was the latest example of how AI is turning things upside down in education. After all, chatbots can suddenly spit out five-paragraph essays and other texts in seconds, once considered something that only humans could generate. We’re encouraging educators in classrooms to try to implement it and use it in classrooms.”

Ethics 148

Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2022

Trends, Tech Tools and Teaching Practices One of the top technological trends for colleges is the collection of student data, according to the report, although it notes that few institutions are using that information to bring about meaningful change.

Hybrid Learning 148

Hybrid Learning Essay Hybrid Courses Learning 148

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Some departments have made tests take-home or open-note, and some have scrapped tests entirely in favor of essays, projects and other assignments that can be done over time. There are plenty of things students complain about, but no other educational technology has drawn as much organized protest in recent months.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

As always, EdSurge maintains editorial independence over all of our journalism, following our ethics statement. Throughout the next year, we’ll be highlighting diverse voices from across the country and featuring more first-person essays from educators and researchers tackling timely and relevant challenges with real solutions. (If

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Education Essay Ethics Coaching 174

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

A misguided reward system can push ambitious, high-performing high school students toward cheating in the belief that their plagiarized essays can earn better grades. This creates an unhealthy, competitive environment which actually promotes cheating by shifting the focus from education to grades.

Plagiarism 123

Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 123

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2021, as part of this work, EdSurge launched its first-ever educator writing fellowship and we welcomed seven amazing fellows who, over the course of the year, penned deeply personal essays highlighting the myriad issues educators, school leaders, and learners faced in the midst of the pandemic and political unrest in society.

Writing 154

Writing Education Essay Ethics 154

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

When ChatGPT and other new generative AI tools emerged in late 2022, the major concern for educators was cheating. That was clear in the exhibit hall of last week’s ISTE Live conference in Denver, which drew more than 15,000 educators and edtech leaders. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.)

Teachers 217

Teachers Education Instructors Language 217

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Educators and administrators across the country took the blank slate created by the absence of a playbook as an opportunity to lean into their social and emotional learning (SEL) training, think flexibly and evolve their practice—in the interest of all their students. In a recent essay, Drs. Wanless and Tia N.

Special Education 193

Special Education Disabilities Education Distance Learning 193

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While some educators rightfully voice concerns over the ethical aspects of such a tool, this article will draw on my own experiences using ChatGPT 4.0 However, this integration comes with the responsibility of acknowledging the use of ChatGPT in research methodologies, ensuring ethical compliance and transparency in academic practices.

Ethics 128

Ethics Feedback Intelligence Language 128

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large. However, rather than viewing AI as a threat to academic honesty, educators can use this moment to redesign assessments that emphasize critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solvingskills that AI cannot easily replicate.

Faculty Development 90

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 90

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The milestone included three types of essays: informative, argumentative and narrative. My students were writing one essay a week, and I was collecting them in a Google Drive folder. Measure What Matters Sometimes, the progress we value most as educators doesn’t align with the academic achievement measured by traditional assessment.

Testing 130

Testing Exams Essay Ethics 130

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) We’re excited to bring you more episodes this year, including more installments in our new series about growing public skepticism about higher education and the impact that is having on the choices students make after high school.

Instructors 135

Instructors Attention Lecturing Essay 135

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large. However, rather than viewing AI as a threat to academic honesty, educators can use this moment to redesign assessments that emphasize critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solvingskills that AI cannot easily replicate.

Faculty Development 84

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 84

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Once educators are comfortable with this step, Dembo introduces a faux student essay relevant to the lesson plan, to show educators how the AI can grade the paper on the rubric and provide feedback — an end-to-end process that could save time, and drudgery.

Coaching 148

Coaching Teachers Schools Ethics 148

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While some educators rightfully voice concerns over the ethical aspects of such a tool, this article will draw on my own experiences using ChatGPT 4.0 However, this integration comes with the responsibility of acknowledging the use of ChatGPT in research methodologies, ensuring ethical compliance and transparency in academic practices.

Ethics 109

Ethics Feedback Intelligence Language 109

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And I think that we can think of that as kind of an analysis of a lot of different kind of factors that students report out on about their activities and grades and test scores and who they are and keywords they might be using in their essays—and then delivering a set of recommendations or ideal candidates to universities. And students?

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Ethics Study Essay Fairness 148

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

“I need a 10 page essay written on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. So to flag such ethically dubious requests, the company uses machine learning. Must have 7 resources.” And you don’t need to be an expert in academic honor codes to know that it constitutes as cheating.

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Essay Ethics Exams Academic Integrity 87

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

We argued about adaptive-learning technologies or interviewed senior advisors in the Department of Education, and wrote essays asking, “ Do virtual environments hinder democratic participation? ,” “ Why adaptive learning? ” and “ Standardization in Testing: Necessary for Education? ”.

Students 85

Students Syllabus Essay Ethics 85

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

“The unwinding of the team has effectively killed investigations into possibly fraudulent activities at several large for-profit colleges where top hires of Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, had previously worked,” The Times concluded.

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Essay Ethics Students History 81

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a structured classroom setting, an educator can only be expected to teach a certain amount of curriculum, and learners can only retain so much information at one time. Many fear that computer-generated grading would only perpetuate the education system’s reliance on multiple-choice questions. AI could transform tutoring.

Plagiarism 130

Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2022

They penned deeply moving essays that gave us a glimpse inside the experimental successes and failures that defined their careers and courageously reflected on their experiences confronting trauma, teaching inclusive sex education and drawing from Indigenous knowledge.

Education 182

Education Failure Essay Ethics 182

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. Educating an android happens one conversation at a time. But at only eight weeks old, Maria Bot is still finding her voice. Maria Bot agrees.

Teachers 153

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 153

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

I described him as a “listening poet” in an essay and my professor called me in and asked, “Can you tell me more about this?” There's an ethics to it; you're making choices, and those choices have implications. I was drawn in by how Hughes was trying to play with music on the page and started trying to describe that.

Art 206

Art Science Reading Failure 206

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

NetSupport – a classroom management solution used throughout the globe – has published the results of a survey asking educators who either manage or use technology about the use and benefits of education technology in their schools. AI continues to shape our daily lives and education is no exception.

Middle School 137

Middle School Middle School Education STEM 137

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

They have perhaps more allied fields such as medical ethics. There's a fantastic, very powerful essay by Julian Dibbell called A Rape in Cyberspace , which covers the use of the virtual world to torment a female player. If we imagine that happening, we can envision how a campus would be different. It's from 1989.

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Reading Education Counselling Essay 89

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And then in the actual selection process, we had them write a series of essays and we had them talk about not only their interests in the program, but the experiences in their lives that prompted them to want to engage in this kind of program. Will you have any of those things? No, none of those things.

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Culture Intellectual Development Attention Essay 165