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.

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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.

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Schools Essay Ethics Assignments 292

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.

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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.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 214

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.

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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.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 268

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.)

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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.

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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 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.

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Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

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

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.

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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.” Teachers — what have been the implications for grading?”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 200

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.”

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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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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.

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Education Essay Ethics Coaching 168

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.,

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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.

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Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 120

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.

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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.

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

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Special Education Disabilities Education Distance Learning 187

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

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

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.

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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

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.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 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

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy. EdSurge is an independent newsroom that shares a parent organization with ISTE.

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Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 137

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?

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 127

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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While some educators rightfully voice concerns over the ethical aspects of such a tool, this article will draw on my own experiences using ChatGPT 4.0 However, this integration comes with the responsibility of acknowledging the use of ChatGPT in research methodologies, ensuring ethical compliance and transparency in academic practices.

Ethics 128

Ethics Intelligence Feedback Languages 128

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large. Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission. Instructors then provided final critiques, focusing on argumentation over mechanics.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Account AI can be a great tool to help enable teachers to actually put together effective personalized learning strategies, so I’ll put you both on the hot seat. Of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable with instruction from the teacher’s perspective, what a teacher should and shouldn’t be able to do in a classroom.

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Learning Disabilities Learning Disabilities Testing 256