eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I got a small whiteboard and filled a cardboard box with dry-erase markers and extra writing utensils. If we can provide 1:1 tablets, surely we can do 1:1 clipboards plus a class wagon, or “go-bin,” with writing utensils, foam sit spots, and a portable whiteboard. So we headed to a park a few minutes walk from our sauna.

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Ethics Writing History English 268

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

After completing the debate, have the class determine which side made a better case,” Ribble writes. Burlington English and social studies teachers already teach their students information literacy skills such as how to judge the credibility of online information and how to source this information properly, Scheffer said.

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Curriculum Teaching Mobile Devices Ethics 279

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

This potential hinges on the responsible and ethical use of AI, taught through a framework that addresses critical concerns such as bias, misinformation, and the preparation of students for a world transformed by AI. This partnership will enable teachers across Canada to offer ethical, quality AI training to their students.

Intelligence 260

Intelligence Exams Ethics Learning Styles 260

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It builds on years of work in Digital and Media Literacy and Computational Thinking , including elements of computer science, ethics and additional areas beyond science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). AI Literacy applies 21st-century skills , including communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity.

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Intelligence Education Learning Ethics 206

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Tyrone Howard, a professor of education who writes about research into students’ relationships with their teachers, said “I think schools in many ways have put the cart before the horse. You’ll study topics like community relations, ethics, meeting the needs of diverse learners, budgeting, research, and more.

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Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 257

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. A curious and reflective learner, Saul often seeks ways to connect new information with his personal experiences.

Essay 168

Essay Ethics Feedback Language 168

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed higher education. Literature review Writing assignments have traditionally served as a means to support the development of critical thinking skills in higher education. Of course, AI writing tools are neither NS nor NNS.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2024

Michelle Kang, CEO of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), a professional membership organization that promotes high quality early learning for all children, noted that AI can save educators time by helping them write weekly newsletters to families. What source data is being used?

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Education Ethics Language Languages 211

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

When [AI-assisted text generators] came out, I had my kids exploring it and writing stories. I'm bilingual and teach students who speak Spanish, so I am considering asking students to do their AI chatbot activities in English or Spanish. Finally, the machine played with the kids. I also taught AI-assisted text generator activities.

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Education Learning Intelligence Coaching 198

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

But they recently got an unusual invitation: Would they be up for writing a book about inequality in computer science aimed at kids—at the very students who are getting such unequal offerings in their schools? That it's not our responsibility to think about the ethics or the social impacts of this.

Science 186

Science Discussions Culture Ethics 186

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed higher education. Literature review Writing assignments have traditionally served as a means to support the development of critical thinking skills in higher education. Of course, AI writing tools are neither NS nor NNS.

Essay 111

Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

, those who encourage students to use AI freely in their writing processes (open-ocean swimmers), and, finally, those who want to embrace AI with guardrails (learning to surf). Open-ocean swimmers have argued that their strategy might equalize the playing field for students or mimic workplace writing processes. What can be done?

Learning 115

Learning Ethics Writing Critical Thinking 115

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

Plagiarism 116

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. Prior to that, she taught English at the secondary level.

Instructors 110

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 110

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

, those who encourage students to use AI freely in their writing processes (open-ocean swimmers), and, finally, those who want to embrace AI with guardrails (learning to surf). Open-ocean swimmers have argued that their strategy might equalize the playing field for students or mimic workplace writing processes. What can be done?

Learning 111

Learning Ethics Writing Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

Plagiarism 111

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Micro-Writing is Having a Macro Impact on Identity Development by Bryan Christopher If you’re a teacher, chances are you’ve used a micro-writing activity at some point. Try Ethics and Philosophy. A panel of global scholars point to an unlikely trio of skills: philosophy, ethics and morality. “If Happy New Year!

Ethics 127

Ethics Plagiarism English Writing 127

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Not only did children learn a lot better with conversational agents, but the biggest gains were to English language learners,” Warschauer says. “We Doing so required writing additional scripts for characters that anticipate how a child might answer a given question, then creating more animation to match that dialogue.

Intelligence 218

Intelligence Study Questions Language 218

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

The result is LearnZillion , serving up teacher-developed math and English Language Arts curriculum through an innovative curriculum-as-a-service model. They decided to use LearnZillion to craft their curriculum so it focused on text-dependent questions and writing about reading. An Ethic of Excellence by Ron Berger.

Curriculum 141

Curriculum Math English Ethics 141

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

It is a part of the Lumen Christi Academies , a group of Catholic schools in the San Francisco Bay Area whose mission is to “nurture ethical scholars who will change the world” through active, personalized and student-led learning. Eventually, I had students begin to write notes of gratitude to random students in the class.

Metacognitive Skills 166

Metacognitive Skills Learning Assignments Group work 166

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I created this article not to discuss potential legal and ethical issues surrounding AI, but rather to share my observations from a broad perspective. Beyond basic editing, students can add specifications such as editing for English as a first language, or editing for the academic environment.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. Prior to that, she taught English at the secondary level.

Instructors 95

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 95

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

I write from personal experience.) In the past, where digital citizenship and online games most often intersected was in the realm of communication—namely, norms around respectful language and dialogue that are aligned with the ethical and moral standards that someone would have for face-to-face conversations.

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Teaching Quizzes Communication Ethics 159

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Image Credit: Farhat Ahmad Curriculum Overhaul In 2015, I was hired as a Fulton County School District Learning Architect, which meant I was part of a team tasked with identifying power standards for English Language Arts. My students were writing one essay a week, and I was collecting them in a Google Drive folder.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 133

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I read an entire book on derailed college presidencies , with dozens of cases of ethical lapses, and found hardly a reference to apologizing. Given the complexity of running a college and high probability for error, one might expect apologies from college leaders to be routine. But they are exceptionally rare, particularly in public.

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Failure Counselling Ethics Communication 191

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I created this article not to discuss potential legal and ethical issues surrounding AI, but rather to share my observations from a broad perspective. Beyond basic editing, students can add specifications such as editing for English as a first language, or editing for the academic environment.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Politicians are using ChatGPT to write bills (e.g., “ AI wrote a bill to regulate AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Ted Lieu wants Congress to pass it ”).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Politicians are using ChatGPT to write bills (e.g., “ AI wrote a bill to regulate AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Ted Lieu wants Congress to pass it ”).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large. An English instructor might have students generate visual interpretations of Their Eyes Were Watching God , sparking discussions on symbolism (Hutchison & Woodward, 2014). Faculty development can include HyFlex training to optimize this balance.

Faculty Development 88

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

She encourages students to draw from science fiction in the writing courses she teaches and has entire assignments built around Cline’s novel. I really want the students to start thinking about the ethical impact of the things they decide to put into the world. Licastro: My students do very similar work in my English classes.

Science 159

Science Education Art Internet 159

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large. An English instructor might have students generate visual interpretations of Their Eyes Were Watching God , sparking discussions on symbolism (Hutchison & Woodward, 2014). Faculty development can include HyFlex training to optimize this balance.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 78

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

give as little policy attention as possible to the known educational needs of students who live in poverty or don’t speak English as their primary language (and thus struggle academically), even as those student and family populations increase markedly within the state.

Failure 89

Failure Education English STEM 89

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

After two years of researching resiliency expectations in higher education, we are calling on members of the academic community to prioritize processing our grief, while we reflect on and draw strength from our own “pandemic narratives” with an ethic of care in mind.

Faculty Development 111

Faculty Development Coaching Essay Ethics 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 14, 2018

. “When we give them a diploma without ensuring that they have basic skills and they go to post-secondary education and they hit a brick wall – when they get into those English and math gateway courses, when they don’t have the necessary basic skills or preparation to get a job and take care of themselves,” he said.

Skills 107

Skills Peer Review Secondary Education English 107

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

After two years of researching resiliency expectations in higher education, we are calling on members of the academic community to prioritize processing our grief, while we reflect on and draw strength from our own “pandemic narratives” with an ethic of care in mind.

Faculty Development 94

Faculty Development Coaching Essay Ethics 94

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

As an example, this organization points to New York state “reading” tests, but the blueprint (and name) for the state’s test shows it’s an English Language Arts test with a heavy writing component. Rather, they’re expected to use ELA skills to correctly answer the multiple choice questions and respond to writing prompts.

Testing 106

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Language Languages 106

k12 Online Schools

MAY 7, 2025

English classes may explore storytelling techniques used by influencers and compare them with classical narrative structures. Instead of writing an essay on climate change, a student might create a short documentary and post it on YouTube. They have policies around ethical sharing and conduct. It makes the learning feel real.

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Online Learning Ethics Education Learning 52