eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Because the tool can assist with assignments like generating essays from prompts, students quickly integrated these technologies into the classroom. While the use of AI in education remains controversial, it is clear that it is here to stay and, if anything, is rapidly evolving.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

There are resources available for grades preK-12, so teachers at every level of school can find relevant and informative materials for their students. This lesson is part of the Constitution unit and is available in English and Spanish with several integration options, so the material can be adapted to whatever your classroom needs may be.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The university has created a way for automated software to give students in large STEM courses feedback on their writing in cases where professors don’t have time to grade hundreds of essays. Wilson researches the application of automated essay scoring. “I U-M presents a really interesting model of adoption.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). Each won $5,000 grants as well as the schoolwide semester’s subscription to Rosetta Stone English. I have given my students over 10,000 books.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

When I was young, we were tracked, starting in first grade, into “high” or “low” reading groups, gifted, etc. In English language arts, students need to analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot. To do this, we have to change the way we “do” school.

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Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While the fears of using AI to cheat aren’t unfounded, how many educators have actually tried writing an essay using just AI? There’s a lurking concern that AI is just going to help students find mindless shortcuts for cheating their way to good grades. Here’s how to counteract the disruptive influence of AI writing on learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Seventy percent of high school juniors and seniors believe AI-powered tools, including ChatGPT, can be a resource in brainstorming ideas for their college essays or short answer responses. AI-powered tools can help students brainstorm ideas for a college essay.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2017

That’s 150 essays they would have to read and respond to for every writing assignment they give. Far more than a simple grammar checker, Revision Assistant is able to read an essay and then compare how strong the writing and content is with thousands of similar papers already in its database. By that time, the teachable moment is gone.

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Writing Technology Essay Feedback 191

eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2017

Certain teacher professional development could have a positive impact on academic writing by English learners in grades 7-12, according to a study from the University of California, Irvine. It was designed for the Pathway Project to measure analytical literacy skills.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. Related: 4 things you should know about digital portfolios.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Our students are reading in their free time in class, at home during hybrid/remote learning, and during library time,” noted Amanda Reese, a 6th-grade teacher at Walnut Grove School in New Market, Alabama. “I I have noticed with the use of myON that students are reading so much more on their own than I have seen them read in the past.”.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. In math, James could be tasked to analyze basketball stats, or in English, he could write an essay on his favorite athlete. For me it was Ms. This same approach would work in other classes as well.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

Due to the small student population, teachers are often providing instruction for several grade levels each school day. The supplemental service supports student mastery of important concepts in English, mathematics and other subjects.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

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). Oh, and if you don’t like it, just click “re-generate” and get a new bot-written essay. They can just have the essay generator do it.”

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Thinking Nation , for instance, a nonprofit dedicated to improving social studies education, recently switched from paying educators to grade essays based on a rubric to an AI chatbot. First, rarely are they appropriate for students with limited English proficiency, or any speakers of dialects other than General American English.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2017

We started in 5 th grade when my colleague got a Khan Academy grant to purchase 12 Chromebooks to supplement the Chromebooks our school provided. We have 1:1 Chromebooks for each student in 4 th and 5 th grade, and we’re introducing 1:1 for 3 rd grade this year. Our students have a Google Classroom in both English and Chinese).

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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

MARCH 11, 2025

How AI supports metacognition: Sauls story Saul, a grade 10 student at the intermediate proficiency level, speaks Spanish and is navigating the challenge of learning academic English while excelling in his coursework. Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation.

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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. District leaders also developed plans in science and English language arts that focus on new approaches to learning to boost student achievement.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

Based on the assessment system I use, many of my students were reading at a level between kindergarten and second grade, which is not ideal, given that I teach high schoolers. In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. John was now willing to take academic risks that he hadn’t taken before ninth grade.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 164

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

As the media specialist, I created the annual “Barrow Peace Prize” project in collaboration with the 2 nd grade classroom teachers and art teacher, where students from across all the second-grade sections pick six nominees from civil rights history and decide what attributes the winner must embody.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The main drawback is that this model simultaneously holds all students to the same learning objective , preventing them from getting the proper lesson unless the teacher has built thousands of lessons and allowed students to jump back or forward to different grade levels according to their levels.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 266

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

With the flexibility that came with pandemic-era school, they’re not used to firm deadlines or strict grading. This will “show that there's a direct connection between the assignment that you're asking to do outside of class and then how they're going to be graded in class,” Minarik says. “So

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus. After one year of using enVision, Johnston County saw real growth.

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JULY 10, 2024

Students from the county apply to the program of their choice during eighth grade, a process that involves taking an admissions test; submitting transcripts, teacher recommendations and a personal video; and entering a lottery, since demand is high. As I became more comfortable, I began designing my own projects.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

Many educators who use the approach, which is often called process tracking, do so as an alternative to running student work through AI detectors, which are prone to falsely accusing students , especially those who dont speak English as their first language.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

This current school year was the first year that the school had a full student body across grades 9 to 12, but the students had to be split up across different facilities due to space constraints. McAndrew used an example of a student writing an essay in an English class.

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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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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Oregon teachers wish they didn’t have to give their students Smarter Balanced English and math tests because the tests take too much time, have confusing directions and are unfair for students who don’t have computers at home or who have inadequate technology at school. A new survey reveals discontent with length, logistics.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 152

Edsurge

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. The result: He eventually graduated college as an English major.

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Universal Design Disabilities Mobile Devices Students 209

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2017

Now, they’re giving away their Standards-based Grading Guide–for free: Humanities Teachers, Rejoice! English Language Arts and social studies standards are often tangled webs of both skills and content, not so easily separated. Click here for free download of Standards-Based Grading for ELA and Social Studies.

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Social Studies Study Grades Essay 79

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JULY 6, 2023

It’s the next step,” says Shelly Ruff, a former fifth grade teacher who found out her teenage son has used ChatGPT to write his essays. “Now that we have this tool and we’re talking about it, now it’s time to figure it out. The gig comes with low pay, unpredictable course loads, and only occasionally health insurance.

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Reading Essay Lecturing Writing 146

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. Prompts, Essays and More. Patti West-Smith.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 134

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

Everyone knows that outside of the school building, creative writing workshops aren’t graded. But if you’re teaching creative writing in a K–12 classroom or a community college, at the end of the day you’re most likely required to stamp a letter grade—or at least a percentage score—on your students’ work.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 113

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? When was the last time you read one other than for grading? Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. Rather than an essay or multiple choice test, students create videos to demonstrate their knowledge.

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