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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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High School High School Essay Fairness 158

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. By helping students reflect on their past experiences and offering your feedback, you can inspire students to tell their stories in an impactful way. So, where do you start?

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Essay Beliefs Feedback Students 59

Edsurge

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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Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

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. 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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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. Under the UDL framework, we consider student variability and diversity as the norm, and the burden of adaptation is placed on the curriculum.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

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. on a scale of 1 to 5.

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Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 119

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. on a scale of 1 to 5.

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Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Could an AI chatbot be integrated into an online grading platform and provide feedback to students? Then, I dropped it into a ChatGPT window and typed, “Can you give me feedback on this?” ” The instantaneous feedback it spit out was remarkably good. And, again, the feedback was sharp, thorough, and targeted.

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Feedback Writing Intelligence Attention 124

Edsurge

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. They must be able to plan projects, use data to solve complex problems, and give and get feedback.

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Students Essay Feedback Fairness 136

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Could an AI chatbot be integrated into an online grading platform and provide feedback to students? Then, I dropped it into a ChatGPT window and typed, “Can you give me feedback on this?” ” The instantaneous feedback it spit out was remarkably good. And, again, the feedback was sharp, thorough, and targeted.

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Feedback Writing Intelligence Attention 116

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. One of the feedbacks we’ve gotten is we love this so much. But even the teachers need SEL.

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Essay Skills Curriculum Communication 177

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2018

I don't think it's automatic that we know how to work on our weaknesses with a certain discipline and to accept feedback on what we could do better. 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.

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Essay Students Testing Writing 140

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They can keep a record of it in the form of logs or minutes that the educator checks and provides feedback on. 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.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Testing Essay English Writing 71

Edsurge

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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Learning Essay Fairness Knowledge 86

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They can keep a record of it in the form of logs or minutes that the educator checks and provides feedback on. 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.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

This episode has been an experiment in format, and we’d love to hear your feedback. 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.

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Ethics Study Essay Fairness 151

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Increase the workload of human instructors: Without the support of AI tools to handle certain tasks, such as grading or providing feedback, human instructors may face increased workloads and potentially struggle to meet the needs of all their students. The Review | Essay. This could lead to burnout and a decrease in teacher morale.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Increase the workload of human instructors: Without the support of AI tools to handle certain tasks, such as grading or providing feedback, human instructors may face increased workloads and potentially struggle to meet the needs of all their students. The Review | Essay. This could lead to burnout and a decrease in teacher morale.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

For example, the biology teacher would instruct on different types of cells while the language teacher provided a writing framework to help students complete a compare-and-contrast essay on cell types. How Did the ELLs Fair in This Hybrid Biology Course? Students from two high schools were enrolled in the course. Completion %.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

A students GPA, course rigor, extracurricular activities, leadership roles, essays, and recommendations matter far more than whether they studied online or in-person. Students should actively participate in classes, seek feedback, and build relationships with their instructors to ensure strong letters of recommendation later on.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

Brandee Ramirez Like if you have if you have one, one teacher who’s not using it and one teacher who is, I just don’t think that’s fair. We have to think, you know, is an essay the right thing? And so it’s not fair if kids can’t access it. We’re not just trying to get people to use AI.

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Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 198

EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So I think it's a fair question that many people have. So they'll host like shared fairs or shared opportunities for like fly-in programs or stuff. Someone would say, "Yeah, I'll come to your college essay editing event," or they'd volunteer for something. What are you talking about?" JW: I guess, absolutely.

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Coaching Communication Essay High School 91

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”).

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215