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. It's complex.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Rather than just taking notes, students can respond to surveys and questions using Google Forms or Formative, tools that allow teachers to pose questions or provide activities for students to respond to on their devices throughout the lecture. Even so, there is much room for improvement when it comes to the student experience.

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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. in the preamble of the U.S.

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 199

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Yet noble individuals press forward and choose to educate our children anyway. As professors and researchers in university teaching and learning programs, we’re fascinated by this question. Why, in spite of the headwinds, do they become teachers? We used a natural language processing algorithm to review their responses.

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Motivation Teachers Essay Languages 205

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. 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.

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Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 175

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 It’s sad to say, but it’s the first question that needs to be asked.

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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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Writing Essay Teachers Feedback 148

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Instead of the usual multiple-hour marathon of multiple choice and essay questions, this spring exams in most subjects will last 45 minutes and consist of one or two free-response questions. The changes were made due to school closures prompted by the spread of COVID-19—which in a growing number of states may last until fall.

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Testing Exams Essay Textbooks 191

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

But as generative AI tools like ChatGPT sweep into mainstream business tools, promising to draft properly-formatted text from simple prompts and the click of a button, new questions are rising about what role writing centers should play — or whether they will be needed in the future. Does it represent my voice?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2024

In a recent book exploring the influence of generative AI on teacher education, two researchers, Punya Mishra and Marie K. Heath posed a question that I can’t seem to shake. Mishra and Heath admit they don’t have the answer, but say they think it’s an important question for educators and scholars to consider.

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Teachers Essay Writing Culture 218

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

Some in her department had tough questions about the approach as well. 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.

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Exams Essay Syllabus Writing 171

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The chatbot offered an opportunity to ask the burning questions that often chase a reader after consuming a great work of fiction. I guided them through generating meaningful, open-ended interview questions that would (hopefully) create a relevant conversation with HoldenAI. The essays were fascinating. What happened to Holden?And

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Evaluation Essay Students Questions 210

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says. Faculty need to clearly answer these questions in their syllabi so students will know, “here's what you do with this information and here's why it'll matter to you in your class,” she adds.

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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.

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Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 200

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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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

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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Essay Education Students Internet 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware. Anderson says.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 211

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2024

Nevertheless, it raises the question: Was that announcement a rebuke of the entire OPM model — or just the story of one troubled company? What can technology add to our school’s mission? If we start with these questions, a very different and far more diversified approach to online learning may emerge.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2024

chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, inspired us with the noble story of his journey as a Black male education leader and gave us tremendous insight into the value of stepping into leadership boldly. Yet, the question lingered, even after I left the retreat. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr.,

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 189

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It actually was such a frequent comment that I started asking the question if teachers didn’t bring it up,” Picou says. “We We assume that students are digitally fluent because there’s way more technology around us than ever before. Some [teachers] have students who have written full essays on their phones.”

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

These changes come on the heels of the College Board’s decision last month to move away from SAT subject tests and optional essay tests, which it also produces. So then the question became how to pull that off. Schools can also choose between different dates and formats for different tests.

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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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Exams Essay Reading STEM 144

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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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 164

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Several reasonable questions come to mind: What exactly is it? Below are a few questions to help educators and investors make sense of it all, especially right after an entrepreneur mentions how well his or her convolutional neural net is working. How can we trust it? How reliable is the data that the AI is trained with?

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Essay Evaluation Intelligence Plagiarism 125

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo is still in its pilot phase but is designed to guide students as they progress through lessons and ask questions like a human tutor would, according to Khan Academy spokesperson Barb Kunz. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 273

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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? Journalists use simple questions like how, what, where, and why.

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Critical Thinking Internet Essay History 159

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DECEMBER 25, 2020

My Twitter threads this year on distance learning or group facilitation methods or leadership and privilege in one way or another all circle back to a similar message: Let’s observe with honesty, dare to raise questions and truly prioritize care.

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Distance Learning Essay Education Students 189

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2023

He’s written books on improving writing, including “ Why They Can’t Write ,” as well as an essay on how to fix group projects. But he says he has trouble getting educators interested in his advice, in part because many see traditional group projects as a way to save time.

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Instructors Essay Writing Grades 160

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DECEMBER 20, 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! education technology agenda. Much work remains to be done to realize the full potential of education technology.

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Education Coaching Essay Evaluation 145

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

JANUARY 2, 2024

Those are the questions Rebecca Gale and Dianne Kirsch teamed up to explore with their graphic story. In his essay, Lee explores why building inclusive, accessible pathways is key. That’s the question driving the Thriving Providers Project, a pilot launched in Colorado and expanding to cities across the country.

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Education Essay Writing Reading 213

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

As a young teacher, I also engaged my students in their own This I Believe essays once upon a time. Though it has been off the air for quite some time, I still think back to these stories and their poignant reflections. It can be a useful exercise. Building engagement into lessons keeps students invested.

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Teaching Essay Discussions Knowledge 214

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JANUARY 24, 2023

The technology, which emerged just a couple of months ago, can answer just about any question you type into it, and can adapt those answers into a different style or tone on command. After all, it’s tailor-made to craft the kinds of essays that instructors ask for. So professors have been quick to respond.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Languages 198

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MARCH 28, 2017

The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience. Once teachers choose a lesson, the program provides a six-step process to help students analyze the readings and produce a cohesive essay.

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