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MAY 14, 2019

Compared with the past, the majority of young adults don’t read for pleasure. In 1980, 60 percent of 12th graders said they read a book, newspaper or magazine every day that wasn’t assigned for school, one study found. Reading has the potential to open doors, expand horizons, and provide escape. It’s not that they can’t.

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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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DECEMBER 26, 2023

I have read and loved them all. But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The essays start off sardonically but become increasingly earnest and reflective. Read more from Emily here.

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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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MARCH 26, 2024

When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. It’s really contingent on hours of the day and human buy-in,” he says.

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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

For more, read part one , and part two. There’s a new application of AI in education, and educators aren’t going to like it. 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).

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MAY 3, 2024

Officials have said that the auto-scoring system will save the state millions of dollars that otherwise would have been spent on contractors hired to read and score written responses — with only 2,000 scorers needed this spring compared to 6,000 at the same time last year. Using technology to score essays is nothing new.

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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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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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AUGUST 23, 2022

But he was reading and writing at a kindergarten level, according to diagnostic tests. John, whose name has been changed, is dyslexic and had been struggling with reading and writing for years. So many students are unable to read and write proficiently. He wasn’t alone. John’s sharp intellect was apparent. I was ecstatic.

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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 I have to read the book and determine what level is.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation. Read about 10 more finalists here !) Read about the three 2023 winners here. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus.

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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. That makes this a great moment to read and write.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

In some cases college instructors assign multiple readings about the same idea, which can feel redundant to students. Often, instructors will realize that instead of assigning three long texts, they may only need to give students one key reading, she says. Are they gonna need this assignment to be able to solve a problem down the road?

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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. Their efforts to tame this powerful new technology show that the stakes are higher than how to check student work for cheating.

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MAY 15, 2023

Upon reading it, I took a pause. I’m a former educator in the process of writing my dissertation for my Doctorate of Education, as part of a part-time program while working a full-time job at Google. Oftentimes, when it comes to technology and new innovations, folks move to a “good” or “bad” binary.

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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 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? When was the last time you read one other than for grading? Now think about the frequency with which you read online articles, blogs, social media posts or listen to podcasts that inspire you or provide new information and perspectives. After all, the best way to learn is to teach.

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MAY 31, 2023

For example, one common barrier for students at Compass High School is the inability to read grade-level text. Many students with disabilities read below grade level and benefit from the text-to-speech tool that is universally available across computer and mobile devices.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

“They need more support, and they need to feel like they are not drowning in higher education.” “I I would read just the instructions from a customer and I would think, ‘This person couldn’t write the paper if they tried,’” he says. Education is a privilege and personal growth comes from learning through experience.”

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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. showed off three Chrome extensions useful for those with reading difficulties.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Check out our most-read stories of 2023 below. And if 10 isn’t enough, you can read all of our early childhood coverage here. Then a school leader launched a campaign encouraging families to “read, talk, play” with children every single day. In his essay, Lee explores why building inclusive, accessible pathways is key.

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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. Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I knew of ChatGPT from reading articles online, but I didn't know how it worked. I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! I think all educators grew concerned. And at first, our school blocked its use.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

The internet is awash in surveys touting the inseparable connection between kids and technology. I think students are reading and writing more than ever. 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 Is it quality writing?

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In my work as an education researcher and product manager, I’ve observed dozens of schools and interviewed hundreds of teachers. And I’ve noticed that technology usage usually fits into one of two categories: independent practice or procedural support—such as writing an essay in Google Docs. Teachers have a lot on their plate.

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MARCH 28, 2017

In order to meet these goals while also responding to testing demands, I needed a new resource: one that would provide my students with a strong framework for writing and use technology as the primary composing tool. Fortunately, I found everything I was looking for (and more) in the online reading and writing program ThinkCERCA.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo was launched last year in grades 5-8 and used in core content areas, which are typically math, reading, writing, and science, according to the district. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction.

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DECEMBER 6, 2024

Specifically, new AI tools can be used to improve how educators measure and grade a students progress through course materials. The hope is that new AI tools will allow for replacing many multiple-choice exercises in online textbooks with fill-in-the-blank or essay questions. Who has agency in that classroom?

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Student success is more often defined by whether a learner demonstrates achievement on what my grandmother called the “3 R's: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic” — the core academic skills needed to illustrate mastery on standardized assessments. This is a dilemma. That’s likely because self-love is difficult to assess and measure.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Yet, there were 22 students sitting in my classroom finishing their independent reading activity. One boy raised his hand—the same boy who always does after silent sustained reading—to ask, “Ms. I had to use the bathroom. The timer went off. Twenty-two heads snapped up to attention. Adams, what are we doing today?” My body reminded me.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Follow a Twitter PLN—Davis suggests Microsoft Innovative Educator groups ( #MIEE ). Read Grading for Equity by Joe Feldman. For example, if a student is working on an essay in a language arts class and is way off track, the teacher can pop a message on their screen that says, "Hey, this paragraph looks off-topic, try focusing on."

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Our readers’ favorite stories included some of the aforementioned pieces plus some others, spanning first-person essays from classroom teachers to deeply reported stories from our staff journalists. What emerges from our list of most-read stories of 2022 is a clear theme: Teaching is in crisis. Thank you, as always, for reading.

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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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DECEMBER 15, 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? They were intended to be giggled at, read aloud and remembered.

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JUNE 17, 2024

As an educator reading headline after headline about AI in education, it’s hard to not get lost in an existential tailspin to the tune of Billie Eilish’s “What was I made for?” (if Integrating generative AI into education is complex. if AI can do all of this.) What does it mean for work to be done so quickly?

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