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Big Deals—Khan Academy Boosts National Civics Bee, AI Tackles Campus Safety, and Stanford Offers Online Math

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Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in participating states are invited to submit a 500-word essay addressing a community issue. A panel of judges will review the essay submissions and the top 20 students will move on to their local competition to show off their civics knowledge. .”

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As More AI Tools Emerge in Education, so Does Concern Among Teachers About Being Replaced

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After all, students quickly spread the word on TikTok and other social media platforms that with a few simple prompts, a chatbot could write an essay or answer a homework assignment in ways that would be hard for teachers to detect. Teachers in K-12 schools are also beginning to push for similar protections against AI replacing educators. “We

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Top 10 EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2023

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Hoping to Regain Attention of Students, Professors Pay More Attention to Them Getting and holding the attention of students is more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

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As instructors and students press pause for winter break, journalists at EdSurge are likewise taking some time away from writing and editing during the last week of 2023. In each essay, Green examines an element or experience of being human today — the QWERTY keyboard, sunsets, Dr Pepper, Canada geese — and then rates it out of five stars.

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Assessing Creative Writing Is Hard, So Here Are Three Ways To Avoid It

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He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. Assess the assessment Kevin Allardice is an English teacher at Mercy High School in Burlingame, CA and the author of the novels Any Resemblance to Actual Persons and Family, Genus, Species.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

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From the first plans for a school library in the United States drafted in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, school district libraries would continue to sprout across the nation during the next two centuries. The Continued Importance of School Libraries Schools resoundingly feature libraries and digital media centers.

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Can middle schoolers handle college? This San Jose school is finding out

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A college-level course, with a few middle school games About 10% of Californias high school students took a community college class in the 2021-22 school year, according to an analysis by professors at UC Davis using the most recent data. She picked intellectual property law. A lot of people say Im assertive, she said.