eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

We are focusing on the efficiencies AI can create, how AI can be used to increase student learning, and the ethics of using this new technology. GIA is a type of AI that can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 268

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation. That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay. That helped me finish that part of the essay. and Che Guevara. It gave examples like the American Dream.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

On the other extreme is its complete acceptance; basically, you enter the essay prompt into ChatGPT and ask it to write the paper for you. AI-assisted support as an apprenticeship As students dig deeper into the topics we study–of poverty, race, gender, and ethics–they realize just how complex they really are.

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Teachers Writing Critical Thinking Feedback 246

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware. Anderson says.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 211

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. These are questions that we need to tackle as a learning analytics field. Its an approach known as learning analytics.

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Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 200

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JULY 12, 2023

No one questions whether literature influences the formation of student personalities. It enhances cognitive abilities, emotional intelligence, moral and ethical development, identity formation, communication skills, social awareness, and creativity. Fiction, essays, science. It can be different.

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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.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

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 It’s sad to say, but it’s the first question that needs to be asked.

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Essay Education Learning Ethics 167

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

APRIL 28, 2022

It’s the question that nonprofit association Educause poses annually to college faculty, staff, administrators and researchers from around the world. Artificial intelligence tools have the potential to help process big datasets, but privacy, ethics and equity worries about the use of data remain unresolved.

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Hybrid Learning Essay Hybrid Courses Ethics 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. We’re not against tech, but the question is ‘How do we use it thoughtfully?’” That’s nuts. That’s nuts.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It can answer questions, explain concepts, and engage in interactive dialogue, promoting active learning and deeper understanding. One should note, however, careful attention must be given to ethical considerations, data privacy, the role educators play in its use, and the transparency of AI systems.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

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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. Take half of one class to let students organize their team, review questions, strategize, and prepare for the Challenge, which will take all of the next class. Ask a question within that category. Students love this game.

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

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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. Take half of one class to let students organize their team, review questions, strategize, and prepare for the Challenge, which will take all of the next class. Ask a question within that category. or another that you prefer.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? Some departments have made tests take-home or open-note, and some have scrapped tests entirely in favor of essays, projects and other assignments that can be done over time.

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Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2021, as part of this work, EdSurge launched its first-ever educator writing fellowship and we welcomed seven amazing fellows who, over the course of the year, penned deeply personal essays highlighting the myriad issues educators, school leaders, and learners faced in the midst of the pandemic and political unrest in society.

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Writing Education Essay Ethics 152

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Fostering research skills with undergraduate students presents opportunities and challenges for faculty to aid with drafting research plans, questions for investigation, and methods for conducting the research. It also instructed the tool to revise the question in a way that identified a specific legal issue.

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Ethics Intelligence Feedback Languages 128

eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

We are focusing on the efficiencies AI can create, how AI can be used to increase student learning, and the ethics of using this new technology. GIA is a type of AI that can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 130

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.

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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.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It can answer questions, explain concepts, and engage in interactive dialogue, promoting active learning and deeper understanding. One should note, however, careful attention must be given to ethical considerations, data privacy, the role educators play in its use, and the transparency of AI systems.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

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 187

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.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Fostering research skills with undergraduate students presents opportunities and challenges for faculty to aid with drafting research plans, questions for investigation, and methods for conducting the research. It also instructed the tool to revise the question in a way that identified a specific legal issue.

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Ethics Intelligence Feedback Languages 110

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) A new AI chatbot can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. Students are already figuring out they can use it to write their essays, and educators are pondering how to adapt.

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Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 137

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Two weeks before testing day, after weeks of struggling robotically through course content, we ditch the projects and texts we are working on to focus solely on test practice, fueled by Powerpoints featuring sample test questions from prior years. The milestone included three types of essays: informative, argumentative and narrative.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 127

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And I think that we can think of that as kind of an analysis of a lot of different kind of factors that students report out on about their activities and grades and test scores and who they are and keywords they might be using in their essays—and then delivering a set of recommendations or ideal candidates to universities. And students?

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Ethics Study Essay Fairness 153

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large. What are its merits and limitations? How can it enhance teaching without diminishing faculty agency?

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

And if those of us asking vital questions about access/cost, academic integrity, and a potential loss of linguistic diversity can be heard without accusations of knee-jerk paranoia. Is it time to admit the unease we feel at ethically teaching technology we ourselves do not use or fully understand?

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large. What are its merits and limitations? How can it enhance teaching without diminishing faculty agency?

Faculty Development 86

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

And if those of us asking vital questions about access/cost, academic integrity, and a potential loss of linguistic diversity can be heard without accusations of knee-jerk paranoia. Is it time to admit the unease we feel at ethically teaching technology we ourselves do not use or fully understand?

Plagiarism 111

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

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. “It’s important to show them that this is a chat engine, that it is malleable.

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Coaching Teachers Schools Ethics 148

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JULY 14, 2023

Understanding Citizen Science Citizen science or community science entails the collaboration between scientists and public volunteers in carrying out key tasks such as experiments, data collection, and answering real-world questions. Ethical concerns and considerations are of special importance in citizen science.

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Science Participation Laboratory Interdisciplinary 144

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Here, students are required to conduct an actual performance instead of simply providing an answer to a question or responding to a prompt. Presenting the findings to a real audience motivates students to understand their work process so that they are ready to respond to audience questions.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133