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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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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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. To Jane Rosenzweig, director of the Harvard College Writing Center at Harvard University, whether or not to add a disclosure would depend on the way a teacher is using AI.

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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. or I dont have any special experience to write about!

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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. Immediately, I heard some excitable boys in the class shout, “Flip flop!”

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History Education Social Studies Essay 201

Edsurge

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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Edsurge

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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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 158

Ask a Tech Teacher

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. Quick writes on the computer. Starting in kindergarten, teach students about privacy and safety. Internet use.

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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

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.

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Plagiarism Academic Integrity Students Assignments 156

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.

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Blended Learning Education Essay Writing 123

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. The worst part of the process is the (reading and writing) performance task. The behaviors in my classroom have been awful.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 132

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2018

For example, if a student is writing a paper using pen or pencil, a teacher in the substitution stage will switch that pen or pencil out, and have their student type the paper instead. . 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. .

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STEM Essay Education Coaching 131

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APRIL 17, 2017

Revision Assistant , part of the Turnitin family, is a comprehensive virtual writing assistant for students that allows them to digitally edit and rewrite documents for any class. Here’s her story: Last Fall, my El Camino Real High School colleagues and I set out to change the way we teach writing. We decided to give it a try.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

Edsurge

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. I was wrong.

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Essay Students Testing Writing 143

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.

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Testing Essay Blended Courses Skills 160

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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). If AI can write a student’s paper, or handle their responsibilities on the discussion board, what else can it do? And it misses another consideration.

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Feedback Writing Intelligence Essay 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. 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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Students Essay Feedback Fairness 142

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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). If AI can write a student’s paper, or handle their responsibilities on the discussion board, what else can it do? And it misses another consideration.

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Feedback Writing Intelligence Essay 116

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

2020), I am already grateful for customer service chat bots that allow me to schedule kids’ doctor appointments while waiting in carpool pick-up lines, and for automated digital writing assistants that catch my grammar and spelling errors as I madly fire off a manuscript between committee meetings and fixing dinner.

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Assignments History Art Ethics 124

Edsurge

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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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 they don’t have to write a whole Lesson plan or learning sequence, right? That fair to say. Ed and special Ed.

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Essay Skills Curriculum Communication 161

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Here are a few assessment strategies that fit the above criteria: Student demonstrations : Students can conduct science experiments, write short stories, create models and prototypes, and perform plays based on scripts they wrote. This requires them to do research so that they can demonstrate their skills.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Our interactions are increasingly shaped by algorithms, and those codes are designed by humans—people who literally write the script for the ways that tech will make us tick, for better or for worse. But sometimes we fail to realize that the platforms and data that push us to interact don't always do it in objective ways.

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Ethics Study Essay Fairness 154

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2016

Use your writing skills as a freelancer. Have a flair for writing? Pair it with your knowledge about kids or teaching in general and write for blogs, online magazines, or publishers. Some publishers require you to pitch an idea before you write the entire article or essay, so do your research first.

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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 she found that the hardest thing for these students was to just even write a prompt. Dr Catlin Tucker Yeah.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

Photos by Laure Andrillon for CalMatters Career Planning helps students learn about career paths , practice resume-writing and learn psychological theories related to professional success. As part of the class, she has to study a career, write a short essay about it and present it at a career fair.

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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. This requires them to do research so that they can demonstrate their skills.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

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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. The Power of Personal Essays for Online Students Perhaps the biggest tool in an online student’s arsenal is the college essay.

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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.

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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

EAB

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

To recap some basics, on October 31 the Supreme Court heard arguments related to lawsuits that Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) brought against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, in connection with these institutions’ race-conscious admissions practices. The situation in brief. Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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Discussions Counselling Art Essay 52

EAB

JULY 11, 2023

And it was mind blowing for a young individual to realize my peers who don't look like me are writing about anything and everything and don't have to talk about their identity. The students are doing that so much through their essay writing. That's the benefit of having these specific programs and offices on a campus.

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Culture History Questions Essay 40

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

Thumbing through its pages, you might have discovered a brief essay penned by a prolific writer of science and science fiction, Isaac Asimov. Such circumstances, he writes, will require that “education be considered a lifelong activity.” That squares with Asimov’s essay, which promises “human teachers will not be totally eliminated.

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Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 155

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

I assigned a variation of this assignment in an attempt to inform my students’ clinical practice and broaden their technical writing. The ubiquitous essay is still relevant despite ChatGPT. We still have a need to demonstrate these qualities by assigning the essay and various iterations of it. Then, I discovered ChatGPT-3.

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Plagiarism Essay Assignments Languages 122

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

In an essay published earlier this month in The Chronicle of Higher Education, history professor François Furstenberg argues that companies promising to “deliver a ‘competency-based, life-skills-based achievement record’” do so primarily in order to sell their technology. We think that will give more young people more opportunities.”

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