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. Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 166

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” Teachers — what have been the implications for grading?”

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

These days, proponents of learning analytics are exploring how the advent of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools bring new possibilities and raise new ethical questions for the practice. Specifically, new AI tools can be used to improve how educators measure and grade a students progress through course materials.

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Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 205

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MAY 1, 2024

Here are the most-read posts for the past month: Tech Tip #90: Don’t Be Afraid of Mulligans Creative Fabrica–the Perfect Solution for Teachers, Creators, and Anyone In a Hurry Most Teens Think AI Won’t Hurt Their Mental Health; Teachers Disagree 9 Online News Resources for Kids Facing Fourth Grade: Tips for Parents Dealing with Academic and Social (..)

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Essay Ethics Reading Curriculum 159

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JULY 12, 2023

It enhances cognitive abilities, emotional intelligence, moral and ethical development, identity formation, communication skills, social awareness, and creativity. Fiction, essays, science. Essays convey the author’s thoughts and analysis of a particular topic. It can be different.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

And what it takes to make these products effective, and how to boost student learning equitably and ethically, remains an ongoing debate. Pearson’s Behrens thinks automated essay grading is one area that machine learning is starting to make progress. “In But there’s much more to machine learning than theory and hype.

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Essay Education Learning Ethics 167

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

This new solution will harness this transformative moment by enabling educators with an integrated Khanmigo experience that supports human-driven, technology-enhanced essay feedback and grading, lesson planning and rubric creation. We’re using AI to show teachers not just the final essay, but how the student got there.

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Essay Ethics Instructors Writing 130

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

After all, chatbots can suddenly spit out five-paragraph essays and other texts in seconds, once considered something that only humans could generate. So they want their courses to help prepare them for this new world and to be part of developing ethical rules on how best to use AI.

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Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

After all, students quickly spread the word on TikTok and other social media platforms that with a few simple prompts, a chatbot could write an essay or answer a homework assignment in ways that would be hard for teachers to detect. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) I have that human connection.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels. Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels. In this way, the grading system is gradually steered away from reality. Is it really wrong?

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Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 124

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. The lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. Tell students your expectations and other pertinent information. Teams score one point per correct answer.

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Finally, they were asked to address the ethical implications of using GenAI in content creation. They reflected on how using GenAI to create social media posts might change consumer engagement with social media and what ethical concerns might arise when consumers become aware that content is AI-generated.

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Teaching Ethics Assignments Students 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Finally, they were asked to address the ethical implications of using GenAI in content creation. They reflected on how using GenAI to create social media posts might change consumer engagement with social media and what ethical concerns might arise when consumers become aware that content is AI-generated.

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Teaching Ethics Assignments Students 110

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

This essay is the last of a three-part series exploring the challenges facing educators of students who learn and think differently and elevating how SEL strategies can support educators in reframing and addressing those challenges now and in the long term. In a recent essay, Drs. Wanless and Tia N.

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Special Education Disabilities Education Distance Learning 195

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. The lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. Teams score one point per correct answer.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

This aligns with the broader movement to ensure ethical development and use of AI while promoting human-centered learning experiences. However, the emphasis on human teachers could limit the exploration of AI tools that might support ethical education practices. This could lead to burnout and a decrease in teacher morale.

Ethics 111

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

This aligns with the broader movement to ensure ethical development and use of AI while promoting human-centered learning experiences. However, the emphasis on human teachers could limit the exploration of AI tools that might support ethical education practices. This could lead to burnout and a decrease in teacher morale.

Ethics 111

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Now, the risk includes theft from technology: if AI produced knowledge (such as a ChatGPT produced essay) gets passed off as a student’s, that student has stolen from the AI.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Now, the risk includes theft from technology: if AI produced knowledge (such as a ChatGPT produced essay) gets passed off as a student’s, that student has stolen from the AI.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

In classrooms, AI’s trajectory is evident: 1980s grading software evolved into 2020s virtual tutors, shifting from peripheral aids to central tools (Baylor & Ryu, 2003). Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large. 2023; Topol, 2019).

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 92

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Their attempt to write specific goals demonstrates an inability to effectively move from essay and reflective language to professional language. This cause-effect relationship between the outcomes of the course and their work ethic is worth spending time on in class. They are not actively participating in their own education.

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Writing Teaching Assignments Essay 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

In classrooms, AI’s trajectory is evident: 1980s grading software evolved into 2020s virtual tutors, shifting from peripheral aids to central tools (Baylor & Ryu, 2003). Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large. 2023; Topol, 2019).

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 89

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I tried to fit everything from 8th, 9th and 10th grade into the curriculum. The milestone included three types of essays: informative, argumentative and narrative. 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 134

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Once educators are comfortable with this step, Dembo introduces a faux student essay relevant to the lesson plan, to show educators how the AI can grade the paper on the rubric and provide feedback — an end-to-end process that could save time, and drudgery.

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Coaching Teachers Schools Ethics 148

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

They mostly take the form of nudges, those text messages or emails sent to students reminding them about important upcoming deadlines or financial aid or just to check in on their grades to see if they're dipping and flag them if they are. You say, "Okay, how do we bring ethical concerns at the conception of the technology?"

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Ethics Study Essay Fairness 154

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Is it time to admit the unease we feel at ethically teaching technology we ourselves do not use or fully understand? Hey, as long as we’re post plagiarism, can we be post grading, too? Where is the robot to ease the grading labor of the weary writing professor beast? No doubt, coming soon over an increasingly strange horizon.

Plagiarism 116

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Is it time to admit the unease we feel at ethically teaching technology we ourselves do not use or fully understand? Hey, as long as we’re post plagiarism, can we be post grading, too? Where is the robot to ease the grading labor of the weary writing professor beast? No doubt, coming soon over an increasingly strange horizon.

Plagiarism 111

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

“I need a 10 page essay written on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. So to flag such ethically dubious requests, the company uses machine learning. Must have 7 resources.” And you don’t need to be an expert in academic honor codes to know that it constitutes as cheating.

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Essay Ethics Exams Academic Integrity 93

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Name other areas outside of school and college admissions where taking multiple choice exams and writing short, formulaic essays that are graded in 1-2 minutes are a regular part of life. “In “Test-taking is no one’s idea of fun, but it is part of life.” In the ultracompetitive global economy, the U.S.

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Testing Essay Exams Critical Thinking 107

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of traditional reporting through oral presentations or written essays, they can be given the chance to present it through a poem, sketch, story, song, painting, mind map, or cartoon. Keep ethics as the moral compass in these conversations to guide them to make appropriate decisions when using such tools.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment. .

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Assignments History Art Ethics 124

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. The lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. Teams score one point per correct answer.

Activities 122

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Failure 122

eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For example, design a lesson for a fifth grade boy with a reading learning disability who is interested in sports. Kevin Hogan In in AI and what it means to write a hundred word essay as well as just kind of the bigger the bigger picture ramifications. Now you get. You know you know what? What is cheating. Dr. Kecia Ray Yeah.

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Learning Disabilities Learning Disabilities Testing 254

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?

Academic Integrity 98

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. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of traditional reporting through oral presentations or written essays, they can be given the chance to present it through a poem, sketch, story, song, painting, mind map, or cartoon. Keep ethics as the moral compass in these conversations to guide them to make appropriate decisions when using such tools.

Authentic Assessment 111

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When ChatGPT was first released, questions swirled around higher ed about it stoking an increase in plagiarism, promoting a lack of critical thinking, and what the future would hold for classic functions like the college admission essay. AI helps with automatic grading and assessment creation. With AI tools, grading becomes automatic.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130