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APRIL 15, 2024

The Ask a Tech Teacher team came up with fresh rules we think are less threatening and more geared to enabling students to enjoy this important writing style. Start small. Mastering these basics is akin to acquiring the essential building blocks that will enable you to construct a sturdy and aesthetically pleasing literary edifice.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

Explore the benefits and drawbacks of AI in essay writing, including its impact on student learning. Unveil the evolving future of writing education with AI through these suggestions from the Ask a Tech Teacher team. AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them?

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

You can allow them to write an argumentative essay, 2) prepare and engage in a live debate with a classmate, or 3) record an argumentative speech. Writing these descriptions is the most challenging part of designing a standards-aligned rubric. argumentative essay, live debate, or recorded speech).

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Blended Learning Essay Feedback Writing 521

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MAY 18, 2023

Many students dread IB essays. Read how to draft an IB extended essay below Writing Strategies for an Extended Essay in the International Baccalaureate Program IB is a rigorous two-year project for personal and academic development. One of them is the extended essay. So, right off the bat, avoid this pitfall.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Evaluation 148

eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How do you know when a student has turned in a good essay? For Patti West-Smith, the answer is simple: Does the piece of writing do its job? In other words, she said, is the essay effective in communicating its ideas? If so, then the writing is probably good—and if not, then it needs revising. Purpose and Audience.

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Writing Essay Feedback Evaluation 196

eSchool News

MAY 8, 2017

As with any skill, the key to better writing is more practice. But that creates a dilemma for the teachers tasked with helping students improve their writing skills: How can they build more opportunities into the curriculum for students to practice writing, while still giving students both timely and meaningful feedback?

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Writing Technology Essay Feedback 188

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing centers on college campuses have been around for more than 100 years , and they’re both a resource for students doing assignments and a symbol of the importance in higher education of learning to express yourself in text. Writing centers are often run by non-tenured staff, which can make them especially vulnerable, says Genie N.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Individual essays, science fair partner projects, group programming assignments, digital and physical art pieces–every single assignment from now on has a silent partner. Despite many efforts , there will never be a tool that can evaluate how much of an assignment was influenced by AI. How do we evaluate their knowledge?

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Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 333

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. I’m also a writing specialist in a support center. I work with students from all disciplines and cultural and linguistic backgrounds where I cover the whole spectrum of writing instruction. For students continuing to graduate school, the writing stakes are even higher.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Languages 119

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The University of Michigan’s M-Write program is built on the idea that students learn best when they write about what they’re studying, rather than taking multiple-choice tests. Senior lecturer Brenda Gunderson teaches a statistics course that will be first to adopt the automated element of M-Write.

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 139

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Example: Writing Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.1 7.1 – Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. The teacher provides more direct support and scaffolding, ensuring all students can build a strong foundation in argumentative writing.

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Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 395

eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2015

For those unfamiliar, SAMR is a framework for evaluating the level at which a given technology has had an impact on teaching and learning. A class that uses Google Docs to write their essays instead of a pen and paper is at the substitution level. When using the SAMR model, educators may gloss over some important points.

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Essay Evaluation Feedback Writing 279

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. For example, students can use AI for initial brainstorming or as a tool to refine their writing, requiring them to demonstrate understanding by reflecting on or critiquing AI-generated content.

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Critical Thinking Ethics Essay Students 327

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. I’m also a writing specialist in a support center. I work with students from all disciplines and cultural and linguistic backgrounds where I cover the whole spectrum of writing instruction. For students continuing to graduate school, the writing stakes are even higher.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Languages 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

This post will introduce you to some quick tips for writing a research paper along with the importance of samples. Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Study 158

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

For instance, instead of banning tools like ChatGPT for essay writing, teachers can encourage students to use AI in their work but clearly document how their essays evolved through multiple drafts. Then, students can evaluate the AI tool’s suggestions and bounce ideas off one another to build on AI’s suggestions.

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Teaching Essay Teaching Methods Intelligence 319

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Whether text, video or something else entirely, each of these mediums encompasses a form of writing. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. engagement and passion.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Guidelines could include what stage of writing an essay students can use AI–for example, using it to brainstorm a topic, conduct research, or to revise a conclusion. Students analyze, evaluate, and critique the technology’s answers in order to build strong information literacy skills.

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Plagiarism Education Assignments Essay 327

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

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

One student, Johnny, is a talented artist but reads and writes well below grade level. His catchphrase is “Oh, writing isn’t my thing.” We need low-stakes, shareable writing assignments to break the ice, so I use micro-writing exercises as often as possible. A quick scan of the room makes it easy to understand why.

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Writing Assignments English Essay 168

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

It gives college applicants the benefits of enhanced feedback and collaboration with a team of experts including strategists, writing coaches and former admissions staff members from elite colleges such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, MIT and Stanford.

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Technology Coaching Essay Feedback 244

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 11, 2023

Writing a comprehensive review is harder than it sounds! The Ask a Tech Teacher crew put together a basic guide for accomplishing this in a balanced, clear manner: Tips and Tricks to Write a Comprehensive Review Students working on research papers are well aware of the significance of a review. What is a review? ’

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Writing Essay Evaluation Feedback 113

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Educators find it socially acceptable for a student to hire a tutor to help them write their college admission essay. Is the “process” being evaluated with the same or greater care than the final “product?” However, there are a couple of major problems with this line of thinking. The first is an equity concern.

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Fairness Beliefs Evaluation Essay 293

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2022

On the first day of classes two years ago, I had students in my professional and technical writing course send me an email with their goals for the semester. Their attempt to write specific goals demonstrates an inability to effectively move from essay and reflective language to professional language. Student evaluations.

Writing 116

Writing Teaching Assignments Essay 116

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

“I love teaching and helping kids grow,” she added, “but I hate that writing instruction takes up hours and hours of my life.” A 2016 study of 3rd to 8th grade educators found that only 55% of teachers said they enjoy teaching writing. 9% of writing assignments in grades six to eight include long form writing.

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Writing Teaching Education Feedback 155

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

References Understanding AI Writing Tools and Their Uses for Teaching and Learning at UC Berkeley | Center for Teaching & Learning. Additionally, multimedia projects offer educators alternative ways to see evidence of student thinking.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 341

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

While this flexibility can be advantageous, it may also create inconsistencies in how AI tools are utilized and evaluated across different courses. Here, AI acts as an intelligent assistant, helping students improve grammar, structure, and coherence in their writing. It could potentially cause confusion for students.

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Ethics Instructors Education Academic Integrity 315

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

With the time it takes to score and give feedback on student work deterring many writing teachers from assigning lengthier writing tasks, and with the long turnaround time most students wait to receive grades and feedback, there is significant timesaving and learning potential in an AI helping grade student work.

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Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 184

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me. To what end?

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 204

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

If I were to use Writable to create a rubric for writing and grading funding announcements of the type you might typically see on EdSurge , it might look something like this: The K-12 writing-support tool is not (currently) designed for publications covering startups and venture capital. million seed round for the Palo Alto, Calif.

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 112

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.

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Grades Teaching Teachers Essay 171

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Data generated by this brief questionnaire helps our educators screen, assess, guide intervention planning, monitor progress and evaluate outcomes related to SEL. In math, James could be tasked to analyze basketball stats, or in English, he could write an essay on his favorite athlete.

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Teaching Students English History 294

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo was launched last year in grades 5-8 and used in core content areas, which are typically math, reading, writing, and science, according to the district. It can also assist teachers with tasks such as planning lessons, tailoring instruction, creating texts and images, and providing recommendations on what students could work on next.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 267

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

For example, to become better writers, readers, and critical thinkers, Quill.org offers low-income students an AI-powered literacy tutor that provides students real-time coaching and feedback on literacy activities that pair nonfiction reading with informational writing.

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Education Testing Feedback English 297

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Metacognition involves planning, monitoring, and evaluating ones understanding and strategies, which helps students become more aware of their learning processes and make adjustments for improvement (Hacker, Dunlosky, & Graesser, 2009). That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Topping our monthly Top 5 list was a look at how professors are rebooting oral exams to respond to concerns that students can now use ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat on essays. Also making the list was an essay by a teacher launched into a leadership position at age 26 reflecting on a lack of support during the shift.

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Exams Essay Reading STEM 141

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2016

What is ‘writing’? What they have defined as ‘writing’ is actually writing conventions, tools, and activities rather than its purpose, goals, and definition. evaluate what is being read to determine the theme and key purpose. This focuses on recording words that are then communicated to others.

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Writing Teaching Essay Plagiarism 84