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

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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Essay Failure Writing Students 182

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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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Essay Lecturing 201

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

How to learn : Give students a voice in their courses by letting them choose how to learn about a topic and/or demonstrate their knowledge. In an English class, for instance, teachers might give students a list of books relating to a certain theme and let students choose which book to read.

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. Students sat with their phones tucked into novels or toggled between multiple tabs in their browsers.

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English Culture Syllabus Writing 201

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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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High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 211

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! 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. I knew of ChatGPT from reading articles online, but I didn't know how it worked.

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Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 207

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Suppose Ella is working on 9th-grade English as a 10-year-old. Performance tasks require students to apply their knowledge, such as through an essay, performance, work of art, exhibition, and so forth. This post originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog , and is reposted here with permission. 4, 2020, [link].

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 239

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JANUARY 29, 2025

Communication as a student in a foreign land depends heavily on knowledge of the language. This is a genuine issue for students with non-English backgrounds mainly. Firstly, they cannot participate freely in project groups with native English speakers. It is rather impossible to grease your basic English at this advanced level.

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Language Languages Communication English 133

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. For example, Larry Reiff, a high school English teacher in New York, uses Twitter to teach his students about Shakespeare by having them tweet in the voice of characters.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

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MAY 31, 2023

The result: He eventually graduated college as an English major. Teachers can offer different ways for students to demonstrate knowledge and skills. Instead of requiring every student to complete a worksheet or a test, allow them to write an essay, create a slide deck or make a podcast.

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Universal Design Disabilities Mobile Devices Students 212

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. Use them to begin longer narrative essays, begin class discussions, or introduce elements of fiction in your language arts class. What are your goals for high school ? What would you do?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

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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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Textbooks Essay Writing English 274

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a comparison of student English essays by NS and NNS of French origin, Granger and Tyson (1996) found that NNS were far less likely to use a term such as “instead” in their writing. Ma and Wang (2016) compared essays written in English by British and American students to essays written in English by Cantonese students.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

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JULY 25, 2023

I think there's a feeling amongst a lot of people that there's something broken about the way we produce knowledge in academia,” he says. And it seems to me that the answer to this attack on expert knowledge and on scholarly knowledge is not to retreat. Let's open up our knowledge production processes.

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Teaching Peer Review Essay Knowledge 148

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

She assumes the role of a student and judges the candidate’s response time and subject matter knowledge. and Canada in search of help for a variety of subjects, from English to chemistry. She began as a tutor two years ago, for subjects including chemistry and essay-writing. We’re there to support” students, she says. “It

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Essay English Evaluation Knowledge 124

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The essay, in particular, appeared to be key in distinguishing between students who finished and didn’t finish their applications. Out of the students who eventually applied, 94 percent wrote at least 100 characters for their essay; whereas just 43 percent of students who did not write at least that much ended up applying.

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Counselling Essay Students Study 210

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Memorization and other lower-order skills represented at the bottom of Bloom’s Taxonomy or Level One of Webb’s Depth of Knowledge wheel are part of the learning process. Higher-order thinking skills are essential for success, so we should use edtech to drive that thinking Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting the education landscape.

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a comparison of student English essays by NS and NNS of French origin, Granger and Tyson (1996) found that NNS were far less likely to use a term such as “instead” in their writing. Ma and Wang (2016) compared essays written in English by British and American students to essays written in English by Cantonese students.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus. With her expert knowledge of edtech solutions and her dedication to making schoolwork engaging, efficient, and effective, Colene has set herself apart as a true K-12 hero.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 325

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Here’s how it might work for an English teacher: Imagine you’ve assigned students a persuasive essay and provided them with a rubric communicating academic expectations. With Kiddom, you can append SEL competencies directly into the same rubric, and track those skills in one place.

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Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 168

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. While it is true that we cannot control the pandemic, we can have a causal positive impact on the lives of those around us through our work with students and families.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

He earned a master’s degree in creative writing and poetry from Brooklyn College, began a master’s degree program in English education at NYU, and is now an adjunct lecturer at CUNY. Tattoo Time Chin will discuss “ Using Tattoos to Teach the Essay Writing Process ” at SXSW EDU 2019. Course Hero Faculty Club member, Jon Chin.

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Students Lecturing English Essay 154

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 127

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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 155

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2016

Rubrics are a well-accepted, even transformative tool for assessing student knowledge over a breadth of criteria. Rubrics can be created in English or Spanish, in ten different subject areas, with ten or more skill categories (this varies depending upon the subject chosen). That’s it. Common Core Rubric Creator.

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Essay Evaluation Authentic Assessment Assignments 92

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Formative Assessments—Happening in Real Time CBE takes students on a journey to demonstrate their knowledge, helping them prepare for the world and jobs that await them. When teachers use formative assessments to measure that knowledge, they gather information necessary to adjust teaching and learning as needed.

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Authentic Assessment Game-Based Learning Learning Evaluation 122

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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Plagiarism Essay English Writing 103

Teach Hub

MARCH 29, 2024

To further enrich students’ knowledge about the upcoming solar eclipse, consider these classroom activities that cover a broad range of curriculum topics. English The 2024 solar eclipse offers an opportunity for students to have a deeper appreciation of the solar event through creative writing and literature.

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Learning Science English Essay 111

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JANUARY 30, 2020

The company’s website was written in Chinese and marketed to students who did not speak English as their first language. In that incident, receipts from students purchasing term papers were exposed on the company’s website, which led to the expulsions of scores of students at several universities.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Attention 157

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

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AUGUST 17, 2016

How wonderful it would be to connect students’ creativity, talents, and interests to content knowledge! Are these freedoms only limited to the area of English Language Arts or Social Studies? Conversely, students can show their creativity even without using technology. But where to begin? What are my options? Character Interview.

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Learning Essay Social Studies Language 112

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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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Clutch Prep was founded on the idea that students would prefer to re-learn a concept from scratch rather than patch the holes in their knowledge. There are no History, English literature, languages, or what are commonly considered ‘soft’ subjects available. How to Prepare for the SAT Essay. Great stuff.

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Textbooks Exams Syllabus Essay 94

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. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper? 2023; Trust et al.,

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 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. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper? 2023; Trust et al.,

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

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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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 78