eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations, Washington, DC, 2023. Additionally, multimedia projects offer educators alternative ways to see evidence of student thinking. 2023, July 27).

Teaching 344

Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 344

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing. They scored ChatGPT’s work using the same College Board rubric their essays were evaluated against.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 216

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

This article explores the role of metacognition in enhancing learning outcomes for ELLs and demonstrates how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can support metacognitive growth. The answer lies in two transformative strategies: metacognition and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI). Machine learning and human intelligence.

Essay 181

Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 181

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Newark Public Schools wants to see a districtwide expansion of an artificial intelligence tutoring tool after it was piloted at First Avenue School last year, as the district searches for ways to help students catch up from pandemic learning loss. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 276

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence, may be able to help. Artificial intelligence to personalize, not standardize assessments Technology has long shaped schools’ approach to assessment.

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Education Testing Feedback English 307

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

And they were eager to do that through a new tool — it gave them a chance to evaluate the hyped-up market for artificial intelligence (AI) for themselves. Then I evaluated their chat transcript for evidence that they listened and met Holden where he was. The essays were fascinating. What happened to Holden?And

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Evaluation Essay Students Questions 212

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 212

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

We recently completed an evaluation of an AI-equipped platform through which middle school students could draft, submit and revise argumentative essays in response to pre-curated writing prompts. In terms of the overall score across all four dimensions (minimum 4, maximum 16), teachers’ average score on these 160 essays was 7.6,

Grades 184

Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 184

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2023

After all, it’s tailor-made to craft the kinds of essays that instructors ask for. The subject line is: “Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT) and the University Honor Code Policy.” Our institution, teaching and evaluation methods, and follow-on industry rely on the use of computers to assist with common work tasks every day.

Academic Integrity 203

Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Languages 203

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. Christina Cipriano, Ph.D.,

Special Education 195

Special Education Disabilities Education Learning 195

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

You know artificial intelligence has hit mainstream when the elderly grocer at the local supermarket asks how he can get into AI. When I started graduate-level work with machine learning tools at UC Berkeley in 2011, few people outside academia were discussing artificial intelligence. It wasn’t always this way.

Essay 129

Essay Evaluation Intelligence Plagiarism 129

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

ChatGPT adds to the suite of AI tools that might be encountered in an ELA classroom, along with automated essay scoring, writing evaluation and feedback. We wanted to understand better the relationship between teachers and the AI employed by the automated writing evaluation tool.

Grades 171

Grades Teaching Teachers Essay 171

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

She encourages her students to use MyEssayFeedback, an AI tool that critiques the organization of an essay, the quality of evidence a student has included to support their thesis or the tone of the writing. Such tools can also evaluate research questions or review a student's writing based on the rubric for the assignment, she says.

Writing 204

Writing Instructors Essay English 204

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). Artificial intelligence in education: A review. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence , 100118.

Communication 135

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2024

These PDF-based digital grading tools not only streamlined his evaluation process but also enabled him to provide timely, detailed feedback that greatly enhanced his students’ learning experience. A PDF editor is handy for grading essays, group projects, or homework. x Interested?

Assignments 167

Assignments Grades Feedback Evaluation 167

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed higher education. Of course, one may prompt an AI tool to evaluate its own responses, so ensuring that students themselves conduct the evaluations remains an important endeavor in higher education. Kuswoyo et al. link] Gibbs, J.

Essay 126

Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

“Scientific studies show that SEL practices improve students’ academic performance, behavior, and attendance,” say Dr. Christina Cipriano, Director of Research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Rethink Ed contributor. SEL programming must be flexible. SEL lesson for grades 6-8. Source: Rethink Ed; watch on YouTube here.

Teachers 164

Teachers Exams Schools Students 164

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. ” (Turing, 1950), followed by John McCarthy’s naming of “artificial intelligence” (McCarthy, 2007). This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R.

Faculty Development 88

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

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). Artificial intelligence in education: A review. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence , 100118.

Communication 111

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed higher education. Of course, one may prompt an AI tool to evaluate its own responses, so ensuring that students themselves conduct the evaluations remains an important endeavor in higher education. Kuswoyo et al. link] Gibbs, J.

Essay 111

Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI.

Technology 147

Technology Education Intelligence Communication 147

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 26, 2023

Shouldn’t we be asking whether our current systems of assessment effectively evaluate and support student learning (not gaming the system), and what alternative approaches would be more effective? It seems to me that we are worried about the wrong issue.

Teaching 119

Teaching Essay Exams Instructors 119

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With the students’ ease of access to artificial intelligence tools and the unprecedented speed and accuracy that these tools can generate assignments for students, teaching professionals have to respond immediately and effectively to this new reality so they ensure that what students deliver is their own production, not that of an AI tool.

Authentic Assessment 133

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. Evaluate the question and give three suggestions for revising the question in a way that identifies a legal issue. My prompt: My student is completing a research project.

Ethics 128

Ethics Feedback Intelligence Languages 128

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Evaluating the detectability of AI-generated texts among student essays. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence , 6 , 100209. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence , v7:1-10. [link] Fleckenstein, J., Keller, S. Kller, O., & Mller, J. Do teachers spot AI? link] Frontier, T. Campbell, M.,

Academic Integrity 89

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 89

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. ” (Turing, 1950), followed by John McCarthy’s naming of “artificial intelligence” (McCarthy, 2007). This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R.

Faculty Development 73

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 73

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative). It’s a problem thesis that has convinced others to write (a check, that is), including Omidyar Technology Ventures, which is leading a $3.2 based company.

Feedback 112

Feedback Writing Peer Review Plagiarism 112

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With the students’ ease of access to artificial intelligence tools and the unprecedented speed and accuracy that these tools can generate assignments for students, teaching professionals have to respond immediately and effectively to this new reality so they ensure that what students deliver is their own production, not that of an AI tool.

Authentic Assessment 111

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 26, 2023

Shouldn’t we be asking whether our current systems of assessment effectively evaluate and support student learning (not gaming the system), and what alternative approaches would be more effective? It seems to me that we are worried about the wrong issue.

Teaching 97

Teaching Essay Exams Instructors 97

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

While ChatGPT seems to have sprung up overnight to dominate current headlines, legislative discussions, and professional debates—ranging from doomsday predictions to practical celebrations related to improved efficiency with menial labor tasks—the introduction of this online Artificial Intelligence (AI) program can be traced back to 2018.

Assignments 124

Assignments History Art Ethics 124

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. Evaluate the question and give three suggestions for revising the question in a way that identifies a legal issue. My prompt: My student is completing a research project.

Ethics 104

Ethics Feedback Intelligence Languages 104

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. Creating personalized experiences for each learner is key. AI could transform tutoring. Learn about AI.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

In addition to assessing students’ grades and essays, admissions officers have long looked to the SAT and ACT to help them decide who will make it in their campus settings, and beyond. Algorithms can also help make admissions less focused on evaluating individuals in the first place.

Fairness 217

Fairness Testing Counselling Disabilities 217

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! 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, 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

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! 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, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

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. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, instructing in the communication discipline.

Active Learning 98

Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

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. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, instructing in the communication discipline.

Active Learning 95

Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 95