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?

Essay 59

Essay Beliefs Feedback Students 59

Edsurge

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. Thinking historically is at the root of those skills.

History 198

History Education Social Studies Essay 198

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? 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. Is there a skill you wish you had? High schoolers write a lot every school day. What would you do?

High School 52

High School High School Writing Essay 52

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

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Fairness Counselling Testing Disabilities 217

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2025

As students navigate an increasingly complex world defined by artificial intelligence, social media, and rapid technological change, the need for essential life skills has never been greater. With a particular emphasis on fostering entrepreneurial skills and mindset by integrating entrepreneurship education into their curriculum.

Essay 153

Essay Skills Curriculum Communication 153

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 9, 2020

On top of that, when all assignments equally go through a plagiarism check, the competition becomes fair again. In this way, by the time they reach college, students will already know these checkers are not used to punish them, but rather to improve their writing skills and the quality of education, both higher and K-12.

Plagiarism 156

Plagiarism Academic Integrity Students Assignments 156

Edsurge

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. Nicholas Lemann, author of The Big Test.

Testing 160

Testing Essay Blended Courses Skills 160

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Our goal is to provide not just tablets, but hands-on learning opportunities to introduce them to skills they may need in the future. . We know that, often, teachers are put into positions where they have to learn a new skill or a new technology but are not given the support they need to do it successfully.

STEM 133

STEM Essay Education Coaching 133

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2017

The causes stem from a lack of access to career skills, mindsets, experiences and networks. These skills aren’t taught in college, but are critical for landing meaningful internships and jobs. Higher income students learn these skills around their dining room tables. Only one in four of the 1.2

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Students Essay Feedback Fairness 138

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. Persisting through difficulty to embrace challenges, collaborating with colleagues and leveraging our SEL skills can create a space ripe for innovation.

Accessibility 218

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.

Exams 119

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 119

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

They replaced the familiar, and easier, Oregon state reading and math tests, the Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or OAKS. 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.

Testing 124

Testing Teachers Math Essay 124

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2019

So much of what we do in education (and in life) can be improved by slowing down, breathing, and thinking about the “why” before the “how” Classroom Change I used to feel a lot of urgency around writing instruction, particularly when it came to skills that students would be held accountable for on standardized assessments.

Blended Learning 122

Blended Learning Education Essay Writing 122

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.

Exams 111

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 111

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.

Testing 84

Testing Essay English Writing 84

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This requires them to do research so that they can demonstrate their skills. This requires students to do research and exercise their higher-order thinking skills. Such activities allow them to exercise their various learning styles, and highlights their strengths and interests.

Authentic Assessment 133

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I repeated this experiment with a student essay and asked ChatGPT specific questions based on several defined rubric categories. Roose calls them “handprints,” those locations and actions that are uniquely human because they draw upon skill, creativity, knowledge, and emotion. That’s all good, but it also feels fairly reactive.

Feedback 124

Feedback Writing Intelligence Essay 124

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I repeated this experiment with a student essay and asked ChatGPT specific questions based on several defined rubric categories. Roose calls them “handprints,” those locations and actions that are uniquely human because they draw upon skill, creativity, knowledge, and emotion. That’s all good, but it also feels fairly reactive.

Feedback 115

Feedback Writing Intelligence Essay 115

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2018

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

Learning 84

Learning Essay Fairness Knowledge 84

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This requires them to do research so that they can demonstrate their skills. This requires students to do research and exercise their higher-order thinking skills. Such activities allow them to exercise their various learning styles, and highlights their strengths and interests.

Authentic Assessment 111

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

Edsurge

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. And that's a really important life skill, also. Maybe I'm old-school about it when it comes to students.

Ethics 149

Ethics Study Essay Fairness 149

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Ethical and Quality Considerations: AB 2370 emphasizes the irreplaceable role of human teachers in providing emotional intelligence, empathy, and critical thinking skills, positioning AI as a helpful tool rather than a replacement. The Review | Essay. 2024, July 1). Opinion | How higher ed can adapt to the challenges of AI.

Ethics 110

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 110

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Ethical and Quality Considerations: AB 2370 emphasizes the irreplaceable role of human teachers in providing emotional intelligence, empathy, and critical thinking skills, positioning AI as a helpful tool rather than a replacement. The Review | Essay. 2024, July 1). Opinion | How higher ed can adapt to the challenges of AI.

Ethics 109

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 109

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2016

Offer your skills as an online teacher. Putting your teaching skills to work can be profitable if you know where to go. Use your writing skills as a freelancer. Some publishers require you to pitch an idea before you write the entire article or essay, so do your research first. Have a flair for writing?

Teachers 74

Teachers Instructors Education Essay 74

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.

Schools 195

Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 195

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

In academic settings, ChatGPT can be used to produce written essays, reports, and responses when supplied with the assignment prompt. However, it did assure me that “ethical considerations, such as biases, fairness, and responsible deployment, remain important areas of concern as the technology evolves” (ChatGPT, 2023).

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Assignments History Art Ethics 124

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

They value critical thinking, adaptability, independence, and real-world skills, all traits that online learners often cultivate in abundance. A students GPA, course rigor, extracurricular activities, leadership roles, essays, and recommendations matter far more than whether they studied online or in-person.

Essay 52

Essay Students Testing Participation 52

Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

As part of the class, she has to study a career, write a short essay about it and present it at a career fair. All of the classes are in multimedia studies, he said, which teaches students how to create their own podcasts or YouTube channels, along with other digital marketing skills. She picked intellectual property law.

Middle School 95

Middle School Middle School Counselling Schools 95

EAB

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Looking across the larger body of reporting on the new AI from the past year, another thing that jumps out at you is the range and sophistication of tasks for which the performance of GPT-4 approaches, matches, or exceeds that of skilled humans—everything from picking winning stocks to diagnosing rare illnesses to writing computer code.

Essay 52

Essay Attention Internet Questions 52

EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So I think it's a fair question that many people have. But we see a lot of programs also that are starting early, as early as in middle school or in ninth grade, to provide additional support to students to help them even before they're thinking about where to apply to college to build the skills necessary to be strong applicants.

Coaching 91

Coaching Communication Essay High School 91

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

This week, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching — the folks who brought us the Carnegie Unit , the basic segment of time measurement in many degree programs, in 1906 — announced its intentions to change that currency of learning from “seat time” to “skills.” That would be a very risky proposition.”

Skills 217

Skills Learning Testing High School 217

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”).

Exams 215

Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

And by exposing Maria Bot to eager learners, Barry hopes to infuse her with benevolence and nurture her teaching skills. Thumbing through its pages, you might have discovered a brief essay penned by a prolific writer of science and science fiction, Isaac Asimov. Educating an android happens one conversation at a time.

Teachers 155

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 155

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

I thought it was a game changer and kicked myself for my poor research skills because the chatbot had me beat right down to its use of digital object identifiers (DOI) for the articles it presented. The ubiquitous essay is still relevant despite ChatGPT. Then, I cross-referenced the information. None of it was real. 2021, March).

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Essay Assignments Language 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

I thought it was a game changer and kicked myself for my poor research skills because the chatbot had me beat right down to its use of digital object identifiers (DOI) for the articles it presented. The ubiquitous essay is still relevant despite ChatGPT. Then, I cross-referenced the information. None of it was real. 2021, March).

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Essay Assignments Language 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

On the other hand, only one-fourth (25%) of parents with children ages 5 and up are very confident teachers will be able to identify assignments or essays produced by AI. 69% believe it should be utilized for research in classrooms or at school. 48% trust lesson plans and curriculum created with AI tools.

Middle School 143

Middle School Middle School Education STEM 143

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

Acquiring and maintaining all of these things takes a lot of money, management, and skill. Is that a fair assessment of the math there? But in most cases, it’s fair to say if a student leaves, the money follows them. Putting it all together, and doing that consistently year after year, is a major undertaking.

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Schools Fairness History Art 105