Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Here are some quotes from Michael Bloomberg about testing students , with my annotations in italics… “Many companies (including mine) use tests in hiring.” The hiring ’tests’ for your financial software, data, and media company are multiple choice tests of factual recall and procedural regurgitation? Your thoughts?

Testing 107

Testing Essay Exams Critical Thinking 107

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. In that model, colleges are typically charged on a per-test basis.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

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.” I mean, what exactly is a Mann-Whitney U stats test, anyway?

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

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

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. Before the digital world, if you wanted data on students, you had to stop the student, instrument or test them, then go on your way. But there’s much more to machine learning than theory and hype.

Essay 167

Essay Education Learning Ethics 167

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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. Test and evaluate: Conduct testing and evaluation to assess the technology’s performance and suitability for your specific use case.

Communication 135

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

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. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. It may be one like Storyboard That! Pixton , or another that you prefer. Students love this game.

Activities 171

Activities Learning Art Attention 171

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

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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. Test and evaluate: Conduct testing and evaluation to assess the technology’s performance and suitability for your specific use case.

Communication 111

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

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. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. It may be a Canva templates, Storyboard That!,

Activities 174

Activities Learning Attention Failure 174

eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But if you have really good policies, they will stand the test of time independent of the event and event or technology. Should stand this test. Kevin Hogan In in AI and what it means to write a hundred word essay as well as just kind of the bigger the bigger picture ramifications. And right now people are getting caught up.

Learning 255

Learning Disabilities Learning Disabilities Testing 255

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.

Coaching 148

Coaching Teachers Schools Ethics 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 6, 2024

Here are the most-read posts for the past month: Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer Tech Tips to End the School Year AI has potential to upend student testing A Typing Website With a Twist 5 Innovative Tech Projects for High Schoolers How do you teach the hard to teach class? Watch the video.

Essay 78

Essay Ethics History Internet 78

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.

Ethics 151

Ethics Study Essay Fairness 151

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. In addition, they have to think of ways to simplify the material so that it is comprehensible to others.

Authentic Assessment 133

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

These activities can be used to reinforce key concepts, test understanding, and provide feedback to students. For instance, after completing a reading or watching a lecture, students can be assigned reflective essays where they critically analyze the content, connect it to real-world examples, and express their own perspectives.

Active Learning 98

Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

These activities can be used to reinforce key concepts, test understanding, and provide feedback to students. For instance, after completing a reading or watching a lecture, students can be assigned reflective essays where they critically analyze the content, connect it to real-world examples, and express their own perspectives.

Active Learning 98

Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. It may be a Canva templates, Storyboard That!,

Activities 122

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

We argued about adaptive-learning technologies or interviewed senior advisors in the Department of Education, and wrote essays asking, “ Do virtual environments hinder democratic participation? ,” “ Why adaptive learning? ” and “ Standardization in Testing: Necessary for Education? ”. We read each other's work and talked some more.

Students 88

Students Syllabus Essay Ethics 88

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. In addition, they have to think of ways to simplify the material so that it is comprehensible to others.

Authentic Assessment 111

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When ChatGPT was first released, questions swirled around higher ed about it stoking an increase in plagiarism, promoting a lack of critical thinking, and what the future would hold for classic functions like the college admission essay. But with AI in schools, that is simply not the case. AI could transform tutoring.

Plagiarism 130

Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. It may be one like Storyboard That!

Activities 71

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 71

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. It may be one like Storyboard That!

Activities 71

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 71

Lab to Class

MAY 10, 2024

While not all of these uses may have been unethical, as ChatGPT has several very beneficial and ethical uses in education, over 53% of respondents in the same study reported that they had allowed ChatGPT to write a paper for them. More savvy students however may not leave such obvious clues in their essays.

Plagiarism 52

Plagiarism Essay Teachers Assignments 52

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. Barry says positive words such as ‘helpful’ and ‘good listening’ and ‘I am acting with ethics’ when he tells me I act with quality,” she says. “If

Teachers 154

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 154

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It turns out, this fledgling university has been quietly working on raising money and finding land for the campus—and testing out its unusual model. If you believe as I do that the cost of higher education is an ethical problem, not just a financial one, then with a clear conscience we can't build a university that's amenities-oriented.

Culture 165

Culture Intellectual Development Attention Essay 165