Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

Explore the benefits and drawbacks of AI in essay writing, including its impact on student learning. AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them? AI’s influence in essay writing is growing, highlighting both advantages and significant issues.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

This includes on-demand tutoring along with AI tools that offer feedback on written work. These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. AI Writing Review enables students to submit their drafts for lightning-fast feedback.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers. Misconceptions about AI in education 1.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

ChatGPT is likely the first to come to mind, but AI is woven into so many tools and helps automate tedious tasks, connects student progress with personalized recommendations, and improved PD feedback. While the fears of using AI to cheat aren’t unfounded, how many educators have actually tried writing an essay using just AI?

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2017

But that creates a dilemma for the teachers tasked with helping students improve their writing skills: How can they build more opportunities into the curriculum for students to practice writing, while still giving students both timely and meaningful feedback? Revision Assistant isn’t just essay grading software.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

For example, to become better writers, readers, and critical thinkers, Quill.org offers low-income students an AI-powered literacy tutor that provides students real-time coaching and feedback on literacy activities that pair nonfiction reading with informational writing.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

For the last few years, this enterprising duo has been flipping their English classes, co-moderating a weekly Twitter education chat, presenting at conferences, planning lessons, and collaborating regularly from opposite sides of the country. Thomasson, who teaches English at Forestview High School in Gastonia, N.C.,

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

From personalized feedback to progress tracking, AI enables students to reflect on their learning journey, refine their strategies, and develop a deeper understanding of their strengths and areas for improvement. Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

With a library card, students can receive live, one-on-one tutoring, access practice tests, and get expert feedback on essays and reportsall available in English and Spanish. Writing Lab Expert feedback on essays, reports, and college applications.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Founded in 2016, Writable offers tools and templates that scaffold the writing and feedback process to help students become stronger writers. For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Why do we need a required writing course if AI can do everything outside stakeholders want such a course to teach? ,” asked Melissa Nicolas, a professor of English at Washington State University, in an op-ed last year. The student could say, once they get the feedback, ‘No, that's not really what I want to do. Mills says.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo, powered by ChatGPT technology, includes features meant to help students work through math and science problems, analyze text, chat with historical figures, navigate college admissions, and revise essays, among other features. It is also designed to help teachers create instructions for assignments and review student performance.

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Edsurge

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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Our students have a Google Classroom in both English and Chinese). We are also able to have our students type weekly essays, and we can give them feedback much more quickly than in the past. We share resources through platforms such as Google Classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

My students enjoyed it so much that since then, we have participated in several including a one-pager challenge where students respond to a New York Times story, a contest where students submit an original podcast and a contest where students can share opinion essays on issues they care deeply about.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

I went to a liberal arts college and spent most of my undergrad years not focusing particularly closely on the computer science coursework, but instead focusing on different areas of political science, of English. Those students get the access to feedback and support, and other students don't. Provide feedback early and often. "I

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Edsurge

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. Read Aloud is a rather self-explanatory extension for listening to websites or text selections in spoken form.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

West-Smith, a former English teacher, middle-school principal, and district curriculum supervisor, is the Curriculum Content Manager at. The thing that folks don’t realize is that often times English teachers have not had extensive training in teaching writing,” West-Smith says. Provide feedback that works. Patti West-Smith.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

billion in venture capital, according to EdSurge data—most notably Chinese startups that connect local students with English tutors. The tool includes an essay-review feature where a Gradeslam tutor will give feedback on students’ drafts within 24 hours. Since 2016, these companies have raised more than $1.2

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I teach middle school English Language Arts at St. But over time I’ve found many middle schoolers are not equipped to critique an essay that meets the expectations of the assignment. Since students don’t intuitively know how to craft good feedback, this was the natural place to start. Joseph School in Chester County, Pa.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But DiMichele, an English teacher at Henry E. Lackey High School in Indian Head, Maryland, had never faced a challenge like the one she walked into this summer—a classroom full of students who had just failed ninth-grade English. Some of her students had never finished an essay, let alone crafted sparkling prose. You can write.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I'm already encouraging them to use the Writing Center and giving feedback that highlights one or two specific grammar/ clarity issues to focus on. However, starting by identifying what goals our students have will allow us to provide far more powerful feedback than if we never are aware of them at all.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

But “there’s an even more basic level of literacy that people need to pick up,” notes the former English teacher and administrator. Teachers can choose a lesson in the program, which guides students through a multi-step process to analyze the reading materials and write a response essay. Like how to write an email.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Whether it’s a group of retirees who cluster in the back of your corner coffee shop or the so-called Ponzi schemes of MFA programs like the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, assessment comes in the form of peer feedback—marginalia and discussion. It also helps break down the barrier between critical and creative thinking.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

She harnesses the power of many platforms, devices, and peripherals to offer her students personalized instruction, inclusivity, data-driven feedback, cross-cultural exchanges, and the support of other educators at their school. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

As an English teacher with 24 years of experience, I often feel I’ve explored every possible avenue to help my students grow as writers. The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

They’re literary detectives, diving into research and using evidence to create well-organized essays. Try these 7th grade writing prompts for journaling, group discussion, or formal essays: Which is better for connecting with friends: TikTok or Instagram? Is it better to read the book or watch the movie? Want to take it up a notch?

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. Under the UDL framework, we consider student variability and diversity as the norm, and the burden of adaptation is placed on the curriculum.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

No, this is practical stuff that will help make your life easier,” says Carlos Acevedo, a ninth grade English teacher and SPOC leader from Morris Academy in the Bronx. I can grade essays right now on my phone or while I am in the doctor’s office.” Now I am a huge fan because they took our feedback and changed it,” says Farrell.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Students in my freshman English class have incredible stories to tell, but they aren't always eager to share them. two years ago and has been developing his English language skills over time, but is repeating the course after struggling through it last year—and his confidence is shattered.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school. In 2016-17, I was the new English department chair at ECRCHS, which is a large public charter school in Los Angeles. It also gave us our initial essay scores to compare pre- and post-performance.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

“Another English teacher just switched to gym because she couldn’t do it anymore,” a teacher from Georgia recently told me. “I How many kids want to write yet another essay on whether the cafeteria should serve chocolate milk? It can also facilitate sharing feedback with educators across a grade, school or district.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

in the thick of filling out college applications, that might mean putting off writing an admissions essay or sending in a transcript. He and about 150 other middle and high school students not only took the course but provided feedback about their learning experience. I am, unfortunately, quite familiar with this sensation.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Fueled by a combination of student feedback, parent input and new developments in education such as Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success , the learning journey was born. Since then, Hunt and I have teamed up with English Teacher and Department Chair Elizabeth Martin, to offer Allen’s first ever Humanities Seminar.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2015

George Orwell lamented in his 1946 essay “ Politics and the English Language , that: “Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.”. Then I found Grammarly. Set-up is easy.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For example, instead of traditional essays, instructors might assign reflective portfolios, oral presentations, or collaborative projects that require students to engage deeply with the material and demonstrate their understanding in ways that go beyond what AI can produce. Creative Exploration : Tools like MidJourney foster innovation.

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