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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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 268

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! The instructor was really supportive. Chelsey McClelland I really loved that every module opened with a fun way that AI can be used — it's not just ChatGPT writing an essay or MagicSchool AI making your lesson plan.

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Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 207

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While companies such as GPTZero have responded to academic concerns by creating software designed to detect the use of AI in written work, false positives and underconfidence in the software’s assessment leaves instructors without an actionable means to promote integrity in coursework (Chaka, 2023). World Englishes 15 (1).

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

After a long weekend of grading essays, I submitted the final grades for English 101. Reality Sets In My first adjunct instructor position was at a community college. I’m now an adjunct professor at a minority-serving university teaching freshman English courses. Then I got an email from the scheduling coordinator.

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Instructors English Essay Disabilities 162

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. So some colleges and instructors have started to think about how to help students get up to speed on their digital and technical skills.

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Teaching Culture Internet Students 203

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While companies such as GPTZero have responded to academic concerns by creating software designed to detect the use of AI in written work, false positives and underconfidence in the software’s assessment leaves instructors without an actionable means to promote integrity in coursework (Chaka, 2023). World Englishes 15 (1).

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“This past year has allowed us insight into how disruptive innovation can harness the power of technology to ignite a new generation of empowered citizens,” enthuses Martha Bongiorno, a Media and Education Technology Instructor in Fulton County, Georgia. We also recognize the value of reaching teachers where they are in their workflow.

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

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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Hybrid Courses Language Languages English 81

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? What are its merits and limitations?

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

John Warner’s forthcoming book, Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities , addresses this question directly. Writing Across the Disciplines : Jason Ferguson summed up this approach best in a 2014 essay: “Every academic discipline requires writing of some kind and most of them require it frequently.”

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Writing Skills Teaching Essay 154

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? What are its merits and limitations?

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 87

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

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). The education publisher will integrate Writable as the writing platform for its digital English & Language Arts curriculum for grades 6-8. based company.

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 112

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Establish and maintain an inclusive community: During the first days of class, it is important to initiate an anonymous survey and a follow-up discussion about what makes students feel valued, seen, respected, included, challenged, and supported by the instructor and their peers. Lastly, we map the various due dates onto a calendar.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 16, 2025

I also drew on the memory of past instructors and tried, at times, to work on variations of teaching techniques that I had seen them use so well. In a recent Harvard Business Publishing essay, Lan Nguyen Chaplin similarly believes that students thrive in classrooms where their professors show vulnerability (2024).

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Instructors Lecturing Essay Art 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Instructors should take reasonable steps to address academic misconduct.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Instructors should take reasonable steps to address academic misconduct.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English. These lessons should target all school leaders and teachers, especially special education teachers and teachers of English language learners. Evolve your programming.

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Schools Language Languages Reading 246

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Establish and maintain an inclusive community: During the first days of class, it is important to initiate an anonymous survey and a follow-up discussion about what makes students feel valued, seen, respected, included, challenged, and supported by the instructor and their peers. Lastly, we map the various due dates onto a calendar.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 104

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2016

If you’re well-organized and self-motivated, you might do well as an online instructor. Look for tutor/instructor opportunities via Craigslist.org. Some publishers require you to pitch an idea before you write the entire article or essay, so do your research first. Here are five of the best jobs to look for in summer.

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Teachers Instructors Education Essay 68

Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

This opens up some problems, said Jessica Breheny, an English professor and the unions vice president. As part of the class, she has to study a career, write a short essay about it and present it at a career fair. Im sure there are 12-year-olds that are college-ready, but there are just less of them and its less likely.

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Middle School Middle School Counselling Schools 114

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 4, 2018

Right from the comfort of your home, you can measure your English skills in the different categories of the test and get familiar with the exam process at a reasonable cost. As a matter of fact, IELTS Simon is managed by a former examiner of IELTS and DC IELTS is run by a current instructor of IELTS. How to Prepare for the SAT Essay.

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Exams Instructors Testing Quizzes 68

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 16, 2025

I also drew on the memory of past instructors and tried, at times, to work on variations of teaching techniques that I had seen them use so well. In a recent Harvard Business Publishing essay, Lan Nguyen Chaplin similarly believes that students thrive in classrooms where their professors show vulnerability (2024).

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Instructors Lecturing Essay Art 59

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While faculty members might feel good when students score well in their examinations and essays, there is little long-term fruit. What exists in Arabic in terms of Sunday school curricula, youth work materials, and home Bible studies is largely translation from English, often poorly translated and culturally inappropriate.

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Assignments Motivation Science Study 131

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

A students GPA, course rigor, extracurricular activities, leadership roles, essays, and recommendations matter far more than whether they studied online or in-person. Students should actively participate in classes, seek feedback, and build relationships with their instructors to ensure strong letters of recommendation later on.

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Essay Students Testing Participation 52

k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

Even language use can shift, students who once spoke in their mother tongue with peers may now be communicating primarily in the language of instruction, often English. Online schools typically choose a single language of instruction, often English, to cater to a global audience. Lessons are compressed. Interaction is scheduled.

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Culture Schools Language Languages 52

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. Why It Works A study published in the journal Learning and Instruction showed that humor used by instructors can improve knowledge retention and student satisfaction. Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays.

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Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Asynchronous Models Online high schools typically offer two main modes of instruction: Synchronous Learning: Students attend scheduled live classes, interacting in real-time with instructors and peers. This approach mirrors traditional schooling but occurs on platforms like Zoom or Google Meet.

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High School High School Exams Schools 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”).

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 216

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph essays. The five-paragraph essay is a topic long debated by educators, and strong opinions abound. Consider paragraphs.

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Essay English Writing Art 146

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

The false positives seem to happen more frequently with students who don’t speak English as their first language. So some instructors are trying a different approach to guard against AI cheating — one that borrows a page out of criminal investigations. How is it being used in education? And there are tools that produce a report.

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Essay Local Government Writing Plagiarism 202

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

In the former, an instructor may simply be unaware that students can now type a writing prompt into a website and copy the answer it generates into a document to submit. Many instructors already rely on plagiarism checkers. These attitudes are lumped together because both favor avoiding the core issue. AI isn’t going away.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

In the former, an instructor may simply be unaware that students can now type a writing prompt into a website and copy the answer it generates into a document to submit. Many instructors already rely on plagiarism checkers. These attitudes are lumped together because both favor avoiding the core issue. AI isn’t going away.

Assignments 98

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Indeed, every interaction with my students was a rhetorical choice: from how I styled my hair to the outfit I wore when handing back graded essays. Furthermore, instructors in the humanities are well situated for this timely introspection. O’Leary is an instructor of English at South Dakota State University.

Instructors 101

Instructors Essay Lecturing English 101

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Indeed, every interaction with my students was a rhetorical choice: from how I styled my hair to the outfit I wore when handing back graded essays. Furthermore, instructors in the humanities are well situated for this timely introspection. O’Leary is an instructor of English at South Dakota State University.

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Instructors Essay Lecturing English 59