eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Educators and administrators serve as judges for the first-round review of all nominees. Freitas (Garden of English, LLC) Most Innovative Ed Tech Company Age of Learning, Age of Learning, Inc. and globally. Freitas, Timothy G.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Educators and administrators serve as judges for the first-round review of all nominees. The winners were presented during a virtual awards celebration hosted on the NewSky XR secure online platform on June 22. Founder of BrainPOP.

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Educational Technologies Technology Peer Review Education 141

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

And his fascination with the form led him to write a book about the genre, “ Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How? ” Professors often spend years writing a paper or a book, he adds, and then it takes years or months to get published, and then read by very few people. Especially if people start to put it down there as their scholarship.

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Teaching Peer Review Essay Knowledge 148

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Her desire to incentivize and reward students for their reading diligence was born out of a deep concern for some alarming English Language Arts (ELA) numbers: In 2018, when she became the principal, the lowest-performing 25% of her 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders reached only 46% of their expected yearly growth based on statewide assessments.

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Reading Peer Review Elementary School Elementary School 150

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Because we know that becoming a successful writer is crucial to a student’s overall trajectory at school , work , and as a citizen , teachers must identify the tools that can best support writing instruction including the overlapping processes of drafting, review, and revision.

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Feedback Peer Review Writing Beliefs 128

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

As English professors and educational developers, we think this question is essential when creating a sense of belonging for all students. With the advent of AI, the limitations of ChatGPT are a good reminder that effective writing is human writing. We can write brief responses, e.g., “Later!” or misspell “Puhleaze!”

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Culture Communication Writing Languages 122

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Aliza Strassman , a second-grade general education teacher, leveraged the educational technology specialist at her school and her knowledge of best practices under Universal Design for Learning (UDL, a framework for designing inclusive classrooms) to create a technology-based approach to creative writing, publishing and peer feedback.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Yet the longform research typical to disciplines like English, history and sociology can be difficult to share and find online. Called TOME, short for Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem, the effort raises money from universities to support the publication and digital distribution of open-access versions of the monographs that scholars write.

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History Peer Review English Knowledge 114

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Revision Assistant , part of the Turnitin family, is a comprehensive virtual writing assistant for students that allows them to digitally edit and rewrite documents for any class. Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Keywords: Student partnerships, Asset-Based Mindset, Language Resources Introduction In educational contexts, English is often privileged as the language of communication and instruction. Savini suggests that we ask ourselves what makes someone else’s writing unclear to us. language choices for turning in assignments?

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Teaching Instructors English Languages 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2019

Since the number of words in the English language is far more for anyone except a bibliophile would be interested in, W.O.R.D. In response to this, peer feedback is growing in popularity as an approach that balances these two realities for the benefit of the student. gathers them into manageable learning groups. Everyone wins.

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Teachers Peer Review Feedback Critical Thinking 107

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

As English professors and educational developers, we think this question is essential when creating a sense of belonging for all students. With the advent of AI, the limitations of ChatGPT are a good reminder that effective writing is human writing. We can write brief responses, e.g., “Later!” or misspell “Puhleaze!”

Culture 98

Culture Communication Writing Languages 98

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.

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Skills Peer Review Secondary Education English 107

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

At our institution, a student living on campus and enrolled in our first-year writing course would complete all of the same major assignments as a dual credit student studying down the road at the local high school, but others might get a student ID card, study in the library, or attend a basketball game for free—just like any other student.

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Instructors Peer Review High School High School 122

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

Quality matters course review process Each course within the UF CJC Online program undergoes a meticulous review process facilitated by a peer-review team established through QM. She earned her MEd, MBA in project management and MA in English composition and rhetoric from Wright State University in Dayton, OH.

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Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 121

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

At our institution, a student living on campus and enrolled in our first-year writing course would complete all of the same major assignments as a dual credit student studying down the road at the local high school, but others might get a student ID card, study in the library, or attend a basketball game for free—just like any other student.

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Instructors Peer Review High School High School 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

Quality matters course review process Each course within the UF CJC Online program undergoes a meticulous review process facilitated by a peer-review team established through QM. She earned her MEd, MBA in project management and MA in English composition and rhetoric from Wright State University in Dayton, OH.

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Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

These courses are geared towards supporting freshmen in their transition to college by introducing them to academic discourse and college-level writing and research, among other skills. Julia Miller began her teaching career in 2007 in New Orleans where she taught middle school English for the next 14 years.

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Critical Thinking Interdisciplinary History Syllabus 86

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

An English instructor might have students generate visual interpretations of Their Eyes Were Watching God , sparking discussions on symbolism (Hutchison & Woodward, 2014). Case Study: AI in Action at a California Community College At Sacramento City College (SCC), a 2023 pilot integrated AI into developmental English courses.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

An English instructor might have students generate visual interpretations of Their Eyes Were Watching God , sparking discussions on symbolism (Hutchison & Woodward, 2014). Case Study: AI in Action at a California Community College At Sacramento City College (SCC), a 2023 pilot integrated AI into developmental English courses.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. In November 2022, a tool called ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to “write” any content.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. In November 2022, a tool called ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to “write” any content.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

States will now be responsible for accountability, and each state will have to submit their own accountability plan to be peer reviewed. Another potential change is that DeVos’ department may also allow a state or group of states to work together to write their own template through the CCSSO.

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Peer Review Schools Middle School Middle School 195

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

His study, published in the peer-reviewed journal SAGE Open earlier this year, formalized what he had found in that initial search: that the majority of videos on the first few pages of searches for “public education” painted a negative view of the subject. “A

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Peer Review Education Essay Attention 122

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A new peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Public Humanities , aims to strengthen the connections between university-based humanities work and the wider world, creating a space for academics and practitioners to share what they do and how they do it. There is a linguistic limit, though; the journal only runs articles in English.

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Essay Peer Review Art History 218