eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

Instead of forbidding generative AI tools, it’s critical that teachers show students how and when it’s appropriate to use AI in student writing. Then, teachers can demonstrate how and when it’s appropriate for students to use AI to their benefit. It’s important to make the writing process less intimidating. MagicSchool.AI

Writing 318

Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 318

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

For instance, there’s a corner of TikTok reserved for tech influencers who rack up thousands of views and likes teaching students how to most effectively use AI programs to generate their essays, including step-by-step instructions on bypassing AI detectors. Trick Them Into Learning’ Doing that requires teachers to work a little differently.

Assignments 201

Assignments English Essay Teachers 201

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

percent), and writing papers or essays (44.1 Teachers, already overburdened with bloated class sizes and punishing schedules, aren’t always around after school hours to answer their students’ questions. Navigating the ethics of AI in education The use of these AI-powered tools isn’t without controversy in some schools.

Essay 276

Essay Schools Ethics Students 276

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Key points: Gen AI is a game changer for all industries due to its ability to produce original outputs Don’t miss out–stay up to date on AI in Education Can artificial intelligence help teachers improve? Video production : AI can produce videos, making multiple means of representation possible for a teacher to provide learners.

Metacognitive Skills 332

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 332

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

This seems to be the norm: AI as the mortal enemy of all classroom teachers. So to all the teachers out there: Resistance is futile. 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. I think of this as absolute cognitive outsourcing.

Teachers 246

Teachers Writing Critical Thinking Feedback 246

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 five insights around AI in education: What is the best AI tool for teachers? Now prove me wrong.”

Ethics 291

Ethics Education Internet Essay 291

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.

Schools 281

Schools Essay Ethics Assignments 281

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Yet, by 1979, nine million children were watching the show , and kindergarten teachers had to upgrade their curricula because children were showing up knowing their ABCs and numbers and eager to learn more. Just look at Sesame Street, which was once considered a wild, controversial experiment leveraging television for learning.

Ethics 331

Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 331

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. Below is a taxonomy of generative AI for educators to consider.

Ethics 309

Ethics Instructors Education Academic Integrity 309

eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

This new solution enable educators with an integrated Khanmigo experience that supports human-driven, technology-enhanced essay feedback and grading, lesson planning and rubric creation. By helping students use generative AI ethically, equitably, and with integrity, demonstrating an authentic work product becomes easy and clear.

Essay 246

Essay Ethics Hybrid Learning Teaching Assistants 246

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. AI-powered feedback helps teachers provide more personalized responses without increasing their workload.

Coaching 194

Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 194

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. Be present and approachable.

Plagiarism 261

Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 261

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 free online conference, called AI x Education , aimed at getting teachers at colleges and high schools up to speed on the latest AI tools like ChatGPT, and to encourage them to try to use them this fall.

Ethics 148

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.)

Teachers 217

Teachers Education Instructors Languages 217

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation. By integrating AI support with teacher guidance, Saul developed a nuanced argument, recognizing that while the American Dream fosters ambition, it can also obscure systemic barriers (Lareau, 2011). and Che Guevara.

Essay 161

Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 161

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. 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.

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

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?”

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2024

She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice , CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today , and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days.

Essay 158

Essay Ethics Reading Curriculum 158

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Six months out from when it broke the internet, ChatGPT — and its numerous clones and adaptations — have drummed up great interest, and concerns, for teachers, school leaders and districts. So education leaders are investing in new training and professional development for teachers on the best use cases for AI.

Coaching 148

Coaching Teachers Schools Ethics 148

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. The hope is that new AI tools will allow for replacing many multiple-choice exercises in online textbooks with fill-in-the-blank or essay questions.

Learning 201

Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 201

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. Panelist Janel Grant, a software engineer and former teacher, pointed out that this vision of machine learning in education is rarely what plays out in the classroom. It’s the holy grail.”

Essay 166

Essay Education Learning Ethics 166

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.

Essay 130

Essay Ethics Instructors Writing 130

Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

More than ever teachers and school leaders are pushing themselves to their limits to address students' social-emotional wellbeing outside of academics. As always, EdSurge maintains editorial independence over all of our journalism, following our ethics statement. It’s no secret that the past year has been filled with challenges.

Education 174

Education Essay Ethics Coaching 174

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

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. Ethics and Surveillance Ironically, Olsen says he created Proctorio because he felt that the remote proctoring services employing humans were too creepy and invasive.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

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., The integration of AI in education holds great potential for transforming teaching and learning experiences (Hussain et al.,

Communication 135

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

A misguided reward system can push ambitious, high-performing high school students toward cheating in the belief that their plagiarized essays can earn better grades. Writing a good essay requires a great deal of analyzing and thinking outside the box. In this way, the grading system is gradually steered away from reality.

Plagiarism 123

Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 123

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. We previously shared how teachers are leveraging SEL to adapt student services and promote accessibility for their students during this unprecedented time.

Special Education 193

Special Education Disabilities Education Distance Learning 193

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 154

Writing Education Essay Ethics 154

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Weingarten underscores the importance of teacher involvement in shaping how AI is implemented in classrooms (American Federation of Teachers, 2023). 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

Weingarten underscores the importance of teacher involvement in shaping how AI is implemented in classrooms (American Federation of Teachers, 2023). 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

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. Be present and approachable.

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. 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

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

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Students and teachers alike are ready for a break. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days.

Activities 171

Activities Learning Art Attention 171

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I was working as a special education teacher in Cobb County School District at the time. My co-teacher at the time told me not to worry about it. “No For me, being a teacher inherently meant I needed to truly believe my kids could learn—and I did. No one expects your students to pass,” he said. So what was my job exactly?

Testing 130

Testing Exams Essay Ethics 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Students and teachers alike are ready for a break. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging. I’ve been there often. or another that you prefer.

Activities 174

Activities Learning Attention Failure 174

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., The integration of AI in education holds great potential for transforming teaching and learning experiences (Hussain et al.,

Communication 111

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111