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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). That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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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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JULY 10, 2024

My colleagues feverishly jotted down notes as one of my students, Ethan, moved through his presentation on how educators can more intentionally use AI in their classes. For example, my students read a variety of books about education to learn more about challenges and solutions in the field.

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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. And last but not least, some help for all of us amateur Google detectives.

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MAY 6, 2019

One session on AP European History alone got 845 viewers. “I In its first year, she claims, more than 90 percent of the 400-plus students on the platform passed their AP World History and US History tests. Screenshot of AP World History review session on Fiveable. And she’s starting with subjects that she knows best.

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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. The Wolfram Language is a great tool for certain educational uses, but not the best or only platform.

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DECEMBER 16, 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? Oh, The Places You'll Go" is one of the most popular books by Dr. Seuss.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Carlin was explaining how to make history relevant to all students, whether it's the history of hip-hop music, the evolution of the coffee industry or a person you pass on the street. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

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JUNE 17, 2024

Instead, I’m challenging us as educators to keep thinking about what we gain and lose as we pursue intentional AI use. The television person values immediacy, not history. What does it mean for work to be done so quickly? What is the cost? The telegraphic person values speed, not introspection.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. History course assignment about the Constitution. But if that student can send a message to tell the teacher something privately, they’ll do it. Learn more about GoGuardian Teacher.

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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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APRIL 11, 2018

Admissions officers pour through a lot of materials, such as resumes and essays, to make the final call on whether or not to accept an applicant. It’s a concept universities and applicants alike are paying close attention to, as it relates directly to student success. But does AI have a role on the admissions office side of the process?

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MAY 1, 2024

Students can receive real-time explanations, targeted practice based on missed questions, and instant grading for written essays, all at a fraction of the cost of expert-based AP tutoring, which can exceed $1,000 per course. History, World History, European History, U.S. Generative AI with guardrails LearnWith.AI

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

Outside of education, I’ve been enjoying the work of Liana Finck , a cartoonist and illustrator who regularly contributes to The New Yorker. The opening to this essay , penned by Finck, sheds some light on why I find her work so entertaining. “A Do you love history? Do you love puppets?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It might seem strange to squeeze in lessons on coping with trauma or resolving political disputes in between frog dissections and persuasive essay writing, but students today say they want to be as prepared socially and emotionally as they are academically when they leave high school. After lunch and before U.S.

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MARCH 28, 2019

Bryan Alexander Audio has a long history that is important for edtech folks to understand. He even tracked down a recording of Campbell reading his essay aloud, sampled it, then excerpted it in his finished work—all on their own, without my prompting it We started class with a dive into audio history.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Providing our children, especially our most marginalized, with a strong math education can be empowering, and I’ve made it my mission to change students' mindsets from a deficit to an asset that can change their future. Although there is progress, it still has not made good on its promise when it comes to student learning.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

He passed away the other day, and you can read an essay looking back at his life and work that we published at EdSurge. Maloney: Part of it is recognizing that higher ed has had a history of change throughout its entire existence. We also have an opportunity not to get mired in that long history.

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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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JUNE 16, 2020

Annette Vee, an associate professor and the director of the Composition Program at the University of Pittsburgh, researches the various intersections among literacy, composition and technology. She reflects on her final project, saying, “I no longer felt I was learning to read and write commands and scripts.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It counts when an essay expands from one unclear sentence to three paragraphs of of compelling narrative, even if three paragraphs doesn’t cut it on the rubric. While educators are engaged in long-winded conversations about how these tests don’t accurately reflect student success, kids are losing out every day. Probably not.

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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.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

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. It also helps break down the barrier between critical and creative thinking.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

History Teacher and Department Chair Bryan Hunt was the second teacher at our school to adopt learning journeys. After a few iterations, he landed on these segments: collaborative learning, passion-based learning project, document-based or long essay and content/skills-based assessment and added focus areas on the side.

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JULY 11, 2023

His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to detect student use of generative AI systems. William Quarterman, a student at the University of California at Davis, was accused of cheating.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Performance assessment varies, with students submitting essays, videos or presentations to demonstrate they’ve learned the material. Neem, associate professor of history at Western Washington University, in a critique of the model. “If WGU offers us a vision of the university without intellectuals,” wrote Johann N.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

At least, that's what professor Cathy Davidson writes in her latest book, “The New Education.”. As director of the futures initiative at CUNY's Graduate Center, Davidson studies and thinks a lot about cultural history and technology. In the book you say companies must start from within higher education. Is that true?

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” He believes chief academic officers are best positioned to lead and implement a campus-wide strategy around building digital literacies.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. And how might individual players’ personal histories contribute to their athletic strategy and performance?

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AUGUST 13, 2016

It doesn't encourage you to expand your movie watching habits by suggesting movies you may not like but are seminal in cinematic history. Psychology and the real world: Essays illustrating fundamental contributions to society, 56-64. Netflix just wants you happy and watching more movies. References Bjork, E. & Bjork, R.

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JULY 25, 2023

It was a podcast version of the BBC radio show In Our Time, where a panel of academics discussed the history of ideas. Because let's say a student essay of 2,000 to 3,000 words, you can't easily read that out on a podcast. Ian Cook, a longtime professor and social anthropologist, still remembers the first podcast he ever heard.

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JUNE 15, 2022

In response to these trends, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a nonprofit organization that works to shape tech policy and architecture with a focus on democracy and the rights of the individual, says there’s been widespread adoption of software that monitors students in K-12 schools nationwide.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy. Students are already figuring out they can use it to write their essays, and educators are pondering how to adapt.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

This inspired me to seek out a game, or online environment, that could provide more expansive experiences for them—a place that would allow them to explore, on their own or with others, and where I could embed history content for them to discover. On Twitter I came across an exploratory discussion of Minecraft’s potential for school use.

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DECEMBER 22, 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! If you could take a class taught by anyone in the world, from history or present day, who would it be and why? Baruch College, CUNY).

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