eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This year marks a significant milestone in integrating advanced AI technologies into educational practices, heralding a new era of teaching and learning. Students often demonstrate their learning through written explanations in the forms of short answer questions and essays. Gen AI is set to revolutionize the way we approach education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

While AI offers promising enhancements to education, ethical and safety implications give many parents pause. 50 percent are concerned that AI-generated content may be biased or incorrect, and they fear an over-reliance on technology. Among the top concerns: 51 percent worry about their children coming across inappropriate content.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself). What is ChatGPT? See our ChatGPT Prompting Guide for Life Design + Career Education.

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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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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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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

The spotlight is on Mike Daugherty , Director of Technology and Innovation in Ohio’s Chagrin Falls Exempted Village School District. 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. What is your biggest IT challenge today?

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 262

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.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 197

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.” This is “good,” while this is “bad.”

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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. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 16(1).

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Essay Ethics Feedback Language 165

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

While some courses in the minor incorporate instruction in specific programming languages, others focus more on the history of technology and explore computer-enabled creative processes.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 213

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

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 we're using it simply to help with brainstorming, then it might not be necessary,” said Katie Datko, director of distance learning and instructional technology at Mt.

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2024

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

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. And what it takes to make these products effective, and how to boost student learning equitably and ethically, remains an ongoing debate.

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Essay Education Learning Ethics 167

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2022

This year, 57 such experts identified social, technological, economic, environmental and political trends influencing the higher ed sector. 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 Learning 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 202

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Generative AI represents an opportunity to enhance the role of technology in supporting educators and creating efficiencies in their day-to-day instruction. By helping students use generative AI ethically, equitably, and with integrity, demonstrating an authentic work product becomes easy and clear.

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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.)

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

As always, EdSurge maintains editorial independence over all of our journalism, following our ethics statement. Throughout the next year, we’ll be highlighting diverse voices from across the country and featuring more first-person essays from educators and researchers tackling timely and relevant challenges with real solutions. (If

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Education Essay Ethics Coaching 178

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

have signed petitions calling on their colleges to stop using automated proctoring tools, meaning that the technology has become arguably the most controversial tool of the pandemic at colleges. There are plenty of things students complain about, but no other educational technology has drawn as much organized protest in recent months.

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Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Include necessary background information to help the technology understand the context better.

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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. Use technology to fight cheating. Cheating makes it unnecessary to do so.

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Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 125

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

The future of community college education lies in striking a balance between embracing technological innovation and preserving the irreplaceable value of human-centered instruction. 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 110

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

The future of community college education lies in striking a balance between embracing technological innovation and preserving the irreplaceable value of human-centered instruction. 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 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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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

The spotlight is on Mike Daugherty , Director of Technology and Innovation in South Dakota’s Chagrin Falls Exempted Village School District. 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.

Plagiarism 130

Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 130

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a comparison of student English essays by NS and NNS of French origin, Granger and Tyson (1996) found that NNS were far less likely to use a term such as “instead” in their writing. Ma and Wang (2016) compared essays written in English by British and American students to essays written in English by Cantonese students.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

Will technology induce cheating? Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

Will technology induce cheating? Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

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 156

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Include necessary background information to help the technology understand the context better.

Communication 111

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) We talk with one of those experts, plus others who are seeking to build guardrails to help educators successfully adapt to the latest AI technology. 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 139

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. It may be a Canva templates, Storyboard That!, or another that you prefer.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

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 tools already integrate AI, so the quality indicators we currently use will need updating and upgrading to address the AI aspects of the technology (AI and Web3: How Are They Related?

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Ethics Intelligence Feedback Language 128

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a comparison of student English essays by NS and NNS of French origin, Granger and Tyson (1996) found that NNS were far less likely to use a term such as “instead” in their writing. Ma and Wang (2016) compared essays written in English by British and American students to essays written in English by Cantonese students.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 111