Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

The course’s six modules began with essential questions — What is computational thinking? Making Computer Science Relevant and Relatable A key takeaway for these educators was the power of language. They then advanced to writing code that instructed how to build a specific tower using the cups. We learned so much.

Science 144

Science Teachers Critical Thinking STEM 144

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

They consider whether communication is still a key leadership trait if AI tools can help people write emails or manage schedules. Younger ones have been forced to question it more openly. They debate. They ask, “What does kindness in leadership actually look like?” They’re not fractured so much as they’re adapting.

Beliefs 145

Beliefs Communication Lecturing Culture 145

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Although important to the employee experience, both workload and total pay have less of an impact on teachers engagement than whether they feel their job gives them the opportunity to do what they do best every day, the researchers write.

Teachers 134

Teachers Intelligence Motivation Writing 134

Cal Matters

JULY 16, 2025

In summary Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that matter for college and life success. And while he hasn’t asked ChatGPT to write any papers for him, he has turned to the technology when a blank page and a blinking cursor seemed overwhelming.

Students 64

Students Study Academic Integrity Questions 64

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Since 2012, the authors write, Detroits community leaders, educators and politicians, have tried citywide messaging campaigns and community pledges; phone calls, home visits, and parent contracts; church buses and afterschool programming; data-driven tiered support systems; and court-run diversion programs. What happens now?

Failure 155

Failure Grades Achievement Writing 155

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

Obviously there are people who write to us and say, ‘thank you so much — now I can access the books that have been taken away from me,’” said Mikel. Such an outcome raises important questions about young readers in rural America accessing digital books from just a handful of well-resourced urban libraries hundreds of miles away.

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Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 211

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing centers on college campuses have been around for more than 100 years , and they’re both a resource for students doing assignments and a symbol of the importance in higher education of learning to express yourself in text. Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience.

Writing 204

Writing Instructors Essay English 204

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Despite the challenges associated with this moment in education, technology is rapidly evolving to allow students more opportunities to engage in social learning spaces online. Give students a straightforward task with step-by-step directions to minimize confusion and questions when kids are in the breakout rooms.

Learning Spaces 545

Learning Spaces Student Engagement Learning Students 545

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As the college essay program manager for Write the World, a nonprofit writing organization for teens, I oversee a group of advisers who guide students through the essay writing process. I have seen firsthand the anxiety that students experience when it comes to writing their college essays.

Essay 185

Essay Writing Beliefs High School 185

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

If students are working on a formal writing assignment or project, teachers can schedule 5-minute feedback sessions with individual students. Students have the opportunity to ask questions if something is unclear or request additional instruction or support. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology , 31(1).

Feedback 546

Feedback Blended Learning Writing Communication 546

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As educators seek innovative methods to engage students and enhance the learning experience, artificial intelligence (AI) is proving to be an invaluable asset. Salas Salcedo: Thankfully, with Project Topeka, AI was so seamlessly integrated into the program that it just felt like a natural step in the writing process.

Writing 203

Writing Students English Art 203

Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

I was thrilled when these two inspiring educators provided me with an early copy of their book and asked if I would read it and write the forward. I also field a lot of questions from elementary teachers who are curious about how they can integrate technology into their lessons in a meaningful and developmentally appropriate way.

Writing 383

Writing Feedback Learning Spaces Activities 383

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Hadzovic earned a degree in English education and later pursued a science degree in part because of the demand for science teachers in Brooklyn, New York. EdSurge: How did using AI tools in your classroom change your approach to teaching writing? Through this writing process, they can have their own epiphanies.

Writing 183

Writing English Interdisciplinary Language 183

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. However, a majority also told us that students were confused about how to respond to the feedback.

Writing 148

Writing Essay Teachers Feedback 148

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Keeping the UC San Diego academic honesty policy in mind, consider the following: A student prompted Gemini to rewrite their text to improve the quality of their writing and submitted the AI-generated version of their text. A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Case studies consist of a short narrative followed by guiding questions that help learners think through the steps of solving a real-world problem. Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant.

Study 124

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 124

eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

More than 2,800 video tutorials match one-to-one with each IXL skill, guiding learners through the building blocks of reading, writing and grammar. Additionally, students receive immediate corrective feedback after every missed question, enabling them to quickly understand their mistakes and progress.

Secondary Education 257

Secondary Education Grades Art Languages 257

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Yet even with these technologies flooding into schools and classrooms, computers won’t be replacing teachers any time soon, and that’s why now, more than ever, teachers should be given the critical support they’re asking for in the classroom. To illustrate this point, consider these three things educational technology can’t do.

Essay 274

Essay Feedback Intelligence Coaching 274

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?

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

If you’re unsure where to begin, ask the chatbot for help brainstorming lesson ideas and then ask follow-up questions until you get something you can use. Educators are the experts in teaching and learning, and they need to be at the center of conversations about how artificial intelligence will be used in education.

Intelligence 342

Intelligence Education Ethics Lecturing 342

eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Lexia researchers analyzed the survey data to discover whether educators believed students would be ready for grade-level instruction and whether educators themselves felt prepared for the tasks ahead of them. The focus groups also answered questions about student and teacher readiness. About Cambium Learning Group.

Education 246

Education Beliefs Students Grades 246

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Additionally, 20 percent of surveyed respondents said their schools/districts have created new job positions such as Educational Technology Specialist, Technology Teacher, AI Education Researcher, Education Data Analyst, AI Development Expert, AI Strategic Scientist, and Edtech Consultant. “We

Teaching 313

Teaching Learning Ethics Critical Thinking 313

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. To what end?

Assignments 203

Assignments Essay History Social Studies 203

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s titled “ The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking ,” and it found that students who took notes on a TED talk by hand did better on conceptual recall questions afterward than those who typed their notes on a laptop. But there’s one problem with the research, Miller points out.

Study 215

Study Peer Review Fairness Writing 215

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As an early innovator in education technology, we have seen firsthand how complementing teacher instruction with proven-effective adaptive technology can help build students’ confidence, critical thinking skills, and a lifelong love of learning. for decades despite the use of technology to help improve outcomes.

Reading 272

Reading Intelligence Learning Art 272

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Texas found itself in need of a way to score exponentially more written responses on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, after a new law mandated that at least 25 percent of questions be open-ended — rather than multiple choice — starting in the 2022-23 school year.

Fairness 194

Fairness Testing Grades Essay 194

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As educators introduce new technologies in their classrooms, successful adoption and improvements to student outcomes will hinge on thoughtful strategies and intent to embrace change. Advancements in education technology History has taught us that innovation is inevitable.

Hybrid Learning 317

Hybrid Learning Cognitive Development Intelligence Motivation 317

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2021

Questioning the end, or purpose, of education is an exercise that modern students, professors and college leaders engage in all the time. Education technology that promises shortcuts for “delivering content” cannot substitute for the hard mental labor of thinking, Newstok says, nor the skilled craftsmanship of teachers.

Education 209

Education Art English Knowledge 209

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

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. The Source of Teachers’ Concerns Years ago, I learned about artificial intelligence (AI) assistance in student writing in an online forum for English teachers.

Essay 216

Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 216

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2021

She was part of a team researching how to build a better writing feedback tool. Think of programs that can automatically generate suggestions or scores for students based on their writing. It actually was such a frequent comment that I started asking the question if teachers didn’t bring it up,” Picou says. “We

Essay 213

Essay Writing Attention Feedback 213

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says. Teaching The Why Sarah Z. So they quit.”

Instructors 196

Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 196

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“As we have seen far too often, students have run head on into the shortcomings of these technologies—shortcomings that fall heavily on vulnerable communities and perpetuate discriminatory biases,” the senators write. This is the latest Senate inquiry into the data collection practices of education technology companies.

Exams 212

Exams Counselling Students Intelligence 212

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Next semester, my students will spend time working with prompt writing, reflecting on LLM output and reflecting on when knowledge and learning matter versus when human-AI hybrid writing makes sense. For many faculty, that last question is causing the most friction around campuses. Can students use AI to write their responses?

Teaching 207

Teaching Instructors Knowledge Writing 207

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You might be wondering how this is possible—how one might actually minimize their dependence on education technology in an era of remote instruction and screen-dependent learning. Less frequently asked were some more fundamental questions: How might we preserve a sense of belonging and connectedness between students?

Distance Learning 218

Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

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.

Teachers 218

Teachers Essay Writing Culture 218

eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Then, the platform’s computerized coach provided observation tips and asked me a number of questions to consider as I began to analyze my video. Professional development needs to be relevant, engaging, and personalized. Megan Schlagel, a high school math teacher in St.

Teachers 275

Teachers Coaching Math Intelligence 275

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK? software with or without encouraging messages, she writes. “If

Ethics 206

Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 206