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JUNE 11, 2024

This could include science fairs, art exhibitions, or community service projects. Activities like creating portfolios, writing reflective essays, or presenting on their learning journey can be very effective. Interactive projects : Implement projects that allow students to apply what they have learned in a real-world context.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The post Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced? Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts. Thomas, Bastin, (2022). Building products and practices for educators to accelerate learning with Linways. Linways Technologies. appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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JULY 30, 2024

These may include standardized test scores (SAT or ACT), high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and personal essays. Write a Compelling Personal Essay Your personal essay is an opportunity to showcase your personality, experiences, and aspirations. A well-crafted essay can set you apart from other applicants.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2018

Each classman must abide by an honor code and resolve to make a positive difference both in the school and outside world by being honest, respectful, trust-worthy, and fair. They are asked to celebrate the imagination in geometric proofs and formal essays, on canvas, the computer, and stage, in poetry readings and morning assemblies.

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Teach Hub

DECEMBER 26, 2024

As an educator , you have the unique opportunity to guide your students through crafting a compelling college essay that truly resonates with the reader. The Importance of College Essays College essays are your students’ chance to stand out above their peers. So, where do you start?

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JULY 16, 2024

Thinking Nation , for instance, a nonprofit dedicated to improving social studies education, recently switched from paying educators to grade essays based on a rubric to an AI chatbot. The chatbot is getting trained on the same rubric to instantly give students feedback on their ability to critically evaluate historical text.

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MAY 6, 2020

Did we really want to contribute more than we already had to a digital pile of manifestoes and letters and essays and livestreams and webinars? And then we stopped short. Did we really want to share another long, detailed resource? Not really. But this affordance doesn’t mean work and life should be seamlessly integrated.

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MARCH 16, 2018

Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. In all fairness, it was pretty sweet.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 8, 2018

Technology lets schools and teachers more easily communicate about day-to-day school events, such as back-to-school nights, fundraisers and science fairs. For example, students can develop digital portfolios to access all of their college readiness work, resumes, informational interviews, essays for college and scholarship applications.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Each classman must abide by an honor code and resolve to make a positive difference both in the school and outside world by being honest, respectful, trust-worthy, and fair. They are asked to celebrate the imagination in geometric proofs and formal essays, on canvas, the computer, and stage, in poetry readings and morning assemblies.

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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. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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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. Strategies for Fair and Effective College Admissions,” says she’s not sold on handing admissions decisions over to technology.

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JUNE 2, 2025

Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. Use them to begin longer narrative essays, begin class discussions, or introduce elements of fiction in your language arts class. What are your goals for high school ? What would you do?

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Meanwhile, almost 40 percent of the American public still contest the results of a free and fair election, and with the 2024 federal election around the corner, political polarization in the United States seems neverending, leaving democracy in an arguably fragile state. Immediately, I heard some excitable boys in the class shout, “Flip flop!”

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! Here’s what Chris Aviles, edtech coach for for Fair Haven school district , had to say. What is the hardest part of being a teenager now?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Smarter Balanced, by contrast, required students to manipulate some shapes and objects with a computer mouse and to type in some of their own answers, including numbers, phrases, sentences and whole essays. As a result, the Smarter Balanced tests lasted much longer than OAKS tests. The behaviors in my classroom have been awful.

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MAY 6, 2020

A collection of his essays on virtual education, Going Online , is published by Routledge. A fairly common occurrence at many of the nation’s colleges and universities. On the opposite end of the inconvenience spectrum are companies who have honed their customer service through thousands of interactions to create enterprise level support.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

On top of that, when all assignments equally go through a plagiarism check, the competition becomes fair again. Some students turn to essay mills when they are stressed out or run out of time to complete an assignment. Plagiarism checkers can help students become better writers, express unique ideas, and stand out.

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MAY 10, 2018

“The specs may be as simple as ‘completeness’: for instance, all the questions are answered, all the problems attempted in good faith or all the directions followed (that is, the work satisfies the assignment), plus the work meets a required length,” she wrote in a 2016 essay in Inside Higher Ed. “Or

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The next step may be that, instead of writing an essay, a student is prompted to create a whole 3D environment in VR around that essay topic. . On top of this training, we also have a fair amount of control over technology both at school and at home, which we share with school IT teams.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. This standardization is crucial for fairness and equality within the course. Fairness : Blueprints eliminate the chance of subjective grading and unexpected exam questions, thereby ensuring a more equitable assessment process.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. As she shifted to remote instruction, Strassman knew she’d have to pivot her lesson plans to engage her students from afar.

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JULY 22, 2015

Each year, add a few more from this list of nineteen digital citizenship topics including cyberbullying, digital footprint, digital law, fair use and public domain, copyrights, plagiarism, social media, and digital commerce. Starting in kindergarten, teach students about privacy and safety. Internet use.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. This standardization is crucial for fairness and equality within the course. Fairness : Blueprints eliminate the chance of subjective grading and unexpected exam questions, thereby ensuring a more equitable assessment process.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2025

Teacher saying we don’t have time for essay and I always. I mean, Jesse and I were just talking about one of her students who I think Jesse was saying, like, found purpose through essay. That fair to say. Because essay everywhere and to have 30 minutes a week in SEL. But even the teachers need SEL. So it’s a.

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MAY 14, 2019

And to be fair, in a true reading community, if there’s a kid who suggests that I’m missing out if I don’t explore a nonfiction book they’re over the moon about, then perhaps I should be willing to give it a go? Whatever our role, no matter our reach, in the end, it comes down to this charge from Penny: We can change the story of reading.

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JULY 31, 2019

The era of trying to measure aptitude is finally over,” wrote the College Board’s president, David Coleman, in an essay in The Atlantic earlier this summer, referring to the version of the test that has been in place since 2014, when the SAT was last revised.

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OCTOBER 19, 2019

Instead of asking the class to write a whole essay that demonstrated proficiency with analytical writing, I asked for two full paragraphs instead. When change is needed, why is it accompanied by a mindset that necessitates rushing the process? One day, I had a lightbulb moment.

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APRIL 17, 2017

Our literacy coach and English teacher, Heidi Crocker, found a product from Turnitin – Revision Assistant – that used a powerful technology to assess writing and would turn the data it uncovered into feedback that students could apply to their essays immediately. This is a fair criticism. We decided to give it a try.

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APRIL 20, 2018

There was a student who introduced himself having written a critical essay about the narrative of grit. When he sent me that essay, of course, I wanted to know more. I really don't think it's fair for me to, or anyone else to expect teachers to implement ideas from watching a TED Talk and reading a book.

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MAY 29, 2017

Just like we can teach a five-paragraph essay, we can teach students to write a great LinkedIn profile, interview in a way that lets them shine, and communicate professionally. There are millions of students from every neighborhood in this country who, like Jalil, are working hard to get a fair shot at reaching their dreams.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of traditional reporting through oral presentations or written essays, they can be given the chance to present it through a poem, sketch, story, song, painting, mind map, or cartoon. In addition, they have to think of ways to simplify the material so that it is comprehensible to others.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I repeated this experiment with a student essay and asked ChatGPT specific questions based on several defined rubric categories. Many of us have received university-level guidance which helps us know how to respond to AI-assisted writing when we see it (or when an online checker tells us to take a deeper look).

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MAY 20, 2018

In fairness, your claim was that the map metaphor points to “the future of education” and I’m making a statement about the present. We have great maps for the learning trajectories of foundational skills in reading and for number and operation in math. Schools should use these maps more than they do.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I repeated this experiment with a student essay and asked ChatGPT specific questions based on several defined rubric categories. Many of us have received university-level guidance which helps us know how to respond to AI-assisted writing when we see it (or when an online checker tells us to take a deeper look).

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

And it's for this reason that I was tracing what was happening with key issues of representation, ideas of fairness around communities and found what I felt were harmful ways that these technologies influence ideas about people. This is where I think of really troublesome ways of thinking about admitting students to a university.

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MAY 15, 2019

I do not imagine that our program is their only or top priority, but I also do not imagine that it is fair to let some make up months of past due work to improve a grade from a previous semester or give extra time on evaluations without medical justification. How much do you bend? I have 22 students all on the exact same schedule.

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