eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Personalized learning materials : Gen AI makes it easy to tailor educational content to individual student needs; it can adapt materials based on difficulty levels, interests, and learning styles. Students often demonstrate their learning through written explanations in the forms of short answer questions and essays.

Metacognitive Skills 339

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 339

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key points : Today’s students will undoubtedly encounter generative AI in their careers Two higher-ed instructors have designed a guide for using generative AI in life design and career education See related article: A scholar’s embrace of ChatGPT-4 Innovations that have transformed education have often been met with skepticism.

Ethics 339

Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 339

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

AI’s rise in popularity has brought with it questions about ethics, skills students will need for workplace success, and how to balance negatives with positives when it comes to teaching with this new generative tool. Here are 5 positive ways students can use AI. What are the negative effects of AI in education?

Ethics 304

Ethics Education Internet Essay 304

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

While AI offers promising enhancements to education, ethical and safety implications give many parents pause. On the other hand, only one-fourth (25 percent) of parents with children ages 5 and up are very confident teachers will be able to identify assignments or essays produced by AI. This press release originally appeared online.

Schools 292

Schools Essay Ethics Assignments 292

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.

Essay 98

Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

As trusted mentors and professional development leaders, they guide teachers in implementing AI tools thoughtfully, ensuring that technology enhances student learning while aligning with pedagogical best practices. They encourage teachers and students to utilize AI for brainstorming, outlining essays, and improving writing mechanics.

Coaching 214

Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 214

eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

We hit on a number of topics that will affect the way educators and students teach and learn, including post-pandemic behaviors, student security, the pursuit of equitability and education, and the future of hybrid learning. For students, the use of generative AI presents significant opportunities and challenges.

Essay 246

Essay Ethics Hybrid Learning Teaching Assistants 246

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

As a doctoral student at the University of California at Los Angeles, I was among those who got a recent campus-wide email with an urgent directive: Don’t use AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Bard or Bing, as doing so “is equivalent to receiving assistance from another person.” Upon reading it, I took a pause. Well, that virtual Aristotle is here.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

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. We believe that this technology has the potential to improve student learning, increase teacher productivity, and make education more accessible to all students.

Plagiarism 268

Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 268

Ask a Tech Teacher

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. All of the above is very relevant for students.

Essay 29

Essay Ethics Critical Thinking Intelligence 29

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

By fostering self-awareness and self-regulation, metacognitive strategies empower students to monitor their learning processes, set achievable goals, and adapt their approaches to overcome linguistic and academic challenges. Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation.

Essay 174

Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 174

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

But one national event for teachers this month had a very unusual trait: It was started and organized by students. The students worked with no external funding, though Zoom donated use of its platform. 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.

Ethics 148

Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In high school, wrote one student on an anonymous survey I give at the start of the semester, I stayed far away from the tool because it was emphasized to me as a way of cheating rather than a study tool. I, on the other hand, want my students to use AI every day in class and for every assignment.

Teachers 246

Teachers Writing Critical Thinking Feedback 246

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

When coding shows up in the curriculum of a liberal arts program, its primary purpose is usually pretty obvious: help students get hired. These efforts are often described as attempts to “ help non-computer science students build the tech skills required for today’s jobs ” so that they are ultimately “ more employable. ”

Art 211

Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 211

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Should they disclose that to students? It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too?

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For years educators have been trying to glean lessons about learners and the learning process from the data traces that students leave with every click in a digital textbook , learning management system or other online learning tool. Its an approach known as learning analytics. One issue is algorithmic bias.

Learning 200

Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 200

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Gather student data, make predictions about their learning—and perhaps their future. For years education companies have tried to apply technologies to better understand students and tailor their learning experiences, or support instructors who can intervene when human help is needed. It’s the holy grail.”

Essay 167

Essay Education Learning Ethics 167

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2022

Trends, Tech Tools and Teaching Practices One of the top technological trends for colleges is the collection of student data, according to the report, although it notes that few institutions are using that information to bring about meaningful change. The spread of hybrid and online learning was named one of the top social trends.

Hybrid Learning 148

Hybrid Learning Essay Hybrid Courses Ethics 148

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

The company announced a partnership with Khan Academy to integrate Khanmigo, Khan’s AI-powered student tutor and teaching assistantCanvas, into Canvas, the market-leading learning management system. For students, the use of generative AI presents significant opportunities and challenges.

Essay 130

Essay Ethics Instructors Writing 130

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Marketing educators face the challenge of equipping students with practical skills that reflect current industry trends. The assignment, “Write a Style Guide and Use GenAI to Write Social Media Posts,” is an engaging way for students to apply marketing principles in a real-world context.

Teaching 111

Teaching Ethics Assignments Students 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2022

On the first day of classes two years ago, I had students in my professional and technical writing course send me an email with their goals for the semester. Teaching my students about goals has become something of a crusade. If students have no understanding of their goals, how can they assess me on the clarity of course objectives?

Writing 116

Writing Teaching Assignments Essay 116

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Marketing educators face the challenge of equipping students with practical skills that reflect current industry trends. The assignment, “Write a Style Guide and Use GenAI to Write Social Media Posts,” is an engaging way for students to apply marketing principles in a real-world context.

Teaching 110

Teaching Ethics Assignments Students 110

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. More than 60,000 students across the U.S. Students on other campuses agree.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

During a professional-development project designed to address complex trauma in students, every participating educator said they’ve experienced secondary traumatic stress as a result of the pandemic. Often, that means trying new and innovative approaches quickly, meeting students where they are.

Education 168

Education Essay Ethics Coaching 168

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. And those are the kinds of behind-the-scenes uses of AI that students may never even know are happening.

Teachers 217

Teachers Education Instructors Languages 217

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AI-powered tools can reduce the time teachers spend on tasks and provide personalized learning experiences by adapting content and instructional strategies to the differentiated needs of each student (Xia et al., ChatGPT can serve as a virtual tutor, providing immediate and on-demand support to students.

Communication 135

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Even so, students spend much of their time in an environment where authorship is not held in high regard. In surveys of more than 70,000 high school students by the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% admitted to plagiarism. Herein lie the many risks it brings about, both for students and society as a whole.

Plagiarism 120

Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 120

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. Independent of software applications, there may be other signals that distinguish independent student work from that of AI.

Essay 126

Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

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.

Writing 152

Writing Education Essay Ethics 152

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being. This aligns with the broader movement to ensure ethical development and use of AI while promoting human-centered learning experiences.

Ethics 111

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being. This aligns with the broader movement to ensure ethical development and use of AI while promoting human-centered learning experiences.

Ethics 111

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

This is the third of a three-part series looking at how social-emotional learning strategies can support teachers of students with learning differences during the pandemic. And in reality, the emergency pivot to remote learning has been more challenging for some students than others, including for those who think and learn differently.

Special Education 187

Special Education Disabilities Education Distance Learning 187

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. We believe that this technology has the potential to improve student learning, increase teacher productivity, and make education more accessible to all students.

Plagiarism 130

Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 130

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. In this posthuman turn, the potential of theft goes beyond human students stealing from human others. Teach students the value of citation, beyond just following the rules.

Academic Integrity 98

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. In this posthuman turn, the potential of theft goes beyond human students stealing from human others. Teach students the value of citation, beyond just following the rules.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Students and teachers alike are ready for a break. As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. This is also a fun and authentic way for students to practice keyboarding. Tell students your expectations and other pertinent information.

Activities 172

Activities Learning Art Failure 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Students and teachers alike are ready for a break. As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. This is also a fun and authentic way for students to practice keyboarding. Tell students your expectations and other pertinent information.

Activities 174

Activities Learning Failure Essay 174