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. The Discover Maps make it easy for students to make connections across different areas of study, and to explore their own interests.

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Essay Teachers English Internet 273

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As the college essay program manager for Write the World, a nonprofit writing organization for teens, I oversee a group of advisers who guide students through the essay writing process. I have seen firsthand the anxiety that students experience when it comes to writing their college essays.

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Essay Writing Beliefs High School 183

eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

As the largest study of its kind, What Kids Are Reading provides actionable insights and helpful tools to help educators guide their students toward “just-right” reading recommendations. The report features a foreword by Jewell Parker Rhodes, author of Black Brother, Black Brother, and an introduction by James S. “Our About Renaissance.

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Reading Study Essay English 246

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Option 1 Science: Design a new experiment to test a scientific hypothesis Science: Write a research paper on an environmental issue Math: Solve a set of problems and explain your solutions in a video tutorial Math: Develop a math game that helps others learn about a mathematical concept or process English : Write an essay analyzing the symbolism in (..)

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History Physical Education Art Essay 382

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Many are already feeling the pressures that come with it, particularly the load of homework and studying. percent) expect math to be their hardest subject, followed by English (14.7 percent), studying for tests (48.8 percent), and writing papers or essays (44.1 In a survey conducted on Brainly.com on August 21, 2024, 60.5

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Essay Schools Ethics Students 274

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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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 320

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

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. I combine the picture books with Gilder Lehrman essays in my classroom. a couple of years ago who said he used children’s books to study?

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Students History Essay High School 330

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The University of Michigan’s M-Write program is built on the idea that students learn best when they write about what they’re studying, rather than taking multiple-choice tests. Wilson researches the application of automated essay scoring. “I U-M presents a really interesting model of adoption.

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 139

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. The two-year study appears in the January issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology.

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Writing Exams Essay Students 201

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

We figured that learning more about teacher motivation could help us better understand teacher pipelines and find ways to diversify and improve the quality of our nation’s teachers, so we designed a study to gather more information. We used a natural language processing algorithm to review their responses.

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Motivation Teachers Essay Languages 209

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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. They might write an essay, compile a slideshow presentation, or create a video, for instance.

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 342

eSchool News

MAY 22, 2017

Students enter my English classrooms and see the course as a requirement for advancement. They look at is as one of many “basics” they need until they can study their actual interest. This message should be universally displayed in English classrooms throughout the country. I define my relevance.

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Writing Technology Education Essay 218

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing. They scored ChatGPT’s work using the same College Board rubric their essays were evaluated against.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 216

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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Essay Exams Testing Reading 273

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The Newark Board of Education in March approved a data-sharing agreement with Khan Academy to study whether the tool was effective “in the North Ward schools,” according to the agreement. 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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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 262

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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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

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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Essay Schools Internet Feedback 154

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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Education Testing Feedback English 288

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

1 Student-Led Inquiry with the 5Es Model Invite students to do a deep dive into a concept or topic of interest related to something they studied this year. For example, if students studied ecosystems, one student might ask, How would a major drought affect the grasslands? They can do this on their own or with the help of AI!

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Testing Learning Critical Thinking Essay 195

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators. I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays!

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Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 207

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2024

When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments — that they’d click a button on a chatbot instead of doing the thinking involved in responding to an essay prompt themselves.

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Writing Teaching Essay Languages 208

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

And they argue that teachers at the college level should now essentially teach the study skills that students might not have learned in school before arriving on campuses. In his classes, Minarik often teaches his students, who are studying to become K-12 educators, to model the purpose of an assignment in class.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 199

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Nobody in the “learn to code” movement argues for this, and every educator would agree with Wolfram's analogy that teaching raw coding syntax alone would be like teaching English handwriting without teaching how to write an essay. It’s a particularly great platform for integrating computer science into other subjects of study.

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Science English Education Languages 160

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

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

When we have assignments, such as typed essays, I am not able to work on the assignment at home. Unfortunately, the digital divide is a very real barrier to success in our community,” said Audra Bluehouse, an English teacher at Hatch Valley High. “We Better internet would help tremendously in our community,” Angel said.

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Internet Essay Assignments English 155

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

A recent study says that language barriers impact well well-being of many international students. This is a genuine issue for students with non-English backgrounds mainly. Firstly, they cannot participate freely in project groups with native English speakers. Studying abroad is becoming an everyday norm.

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Languages Language Communication English 129

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study. This study shows otherwise. Department of Education.

Counselling 210

Counselling Essay Students High School 210

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

Mayfield spent his grad school years studying natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine learning. 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.

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Achievement Writing Essay Languages 164

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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Essay Beliefs Students Languages 168

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. When students can understand how one topic might be covered in English, History and Science, they’re able to grasp it more deeply.

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High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 210

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

But many experts on contract cheating say that the people who use the services are often working adults who are struggling to balance their jobs and studies, or those who may not be adequately prepared for college and unaware of the legitimate support services campuses provide. The sales pitch is all about doing the work of students for them.

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Essay Writing Students Academic Integrity 163

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2017

When it comes to writing and technology, some studies suggest that handwriting is better for memory —but Ron Kellogg, a professor in cognition and neuroscience at the University of St. He explains that writing an essay or report is a complex process that combines language production, memory retrieval and thinking ability.

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Writing Essay Learning English 148

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. In a 2021 survey from the College Innovation Network, 20 percent of students at four-year colleges said they struggled learning new edtech tools. There’s a bit of an imposter syndrome.

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Teaching Culture Internet Students 202

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Suppose Ella is working on 9th-grade English as a 10-year-old. Learning at the right level in a way that replicates the effects of human tutoring has proven in innumerable studies to be a more effective instructional design than monolithic, one-sized instruction.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 251

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.

Essay 111

Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2017

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. How to Prepare for the SAT Essay. This guide clears common misconception and offers best practices.

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Social Studies Study Grades Essay 75

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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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 123