eSchool News

JULY 25, 2023

A brief primer on generative AI For the uninitiated, generative AI is a branch of artificial intelligence that can create new content from scratch. It’s like a digital Picasso, but instead of painting, it might be writing essays, producing music, or even generating feedback on students’ work. Exciting, right?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

ChatGPT is likely the first to come to mind, but AI is woven into so many tools and helps automate tedious tasks, connects student progress with personalized recommendations, and improved PD feedback. While the fears of using AI to cheat aren’t unfounded, how many educators have actually tried writing an essay using just AI?

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Here, AI acts as an intelligent assistant, helping students improve grammar, structure, and coherence in their writing. This use of AI can enhance the quality of student submissions and provide valuable feedback that helps students learn and improve their skills over time.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence, may be able to help. Artificial intelligence to personalize, not standardize assessments Technology has long shaped schools’ approach to assessment.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

This new solution enable educators with an integrated Khanmigo experience that supports human-driven, technology-enhanced essay feedback and grading, lesson planning and rubric creation. In a world filled with intelligent agents and easily-accessed answers, the need for tools that guide, enhance and support active learning is critical.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s just more complex and time consuming, he says, to gauge how much a student has learned about, say, how to weigh two competing views of a historical event in an essay assignment. But Cote saw that now an AI chatbot can be trained on the same rubric to instantly give the same kind of feedback.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself). We welcome your feedback and can be contacted at jlang@tulane.edu and dustinliu@stanford.edu.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

This article explores the role of metacognition in enhancing learning outcomes for ELLs and demonstrates how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can support metacognitive growth. The answer lies in two transformative strategies: metacognition and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI). and Che Guevara.

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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. Figure 1: Teacher v.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Key points: Experts are going behind the curtain to get a true feel for what AI is all about Everything you need to know about AI in education Can artificial intelligence help teachers improve? Educators find it socially acceptable for a student to hire a tutor to help them write their college admission essay.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Founded in 2016, Writable offers tools and templates that scaffold the writing and feedback process to help students become stronger writers. For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The most-cited applications included providing feedback on student work, creating professional development materials, supporting writing and content generation, creating course content, and enhancing accessibility for students with special needs.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 200

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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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Newark Public Schools wants to see a districtwide expansion of an artificial intelligence tutoring tool after it was piloted at First Avenue School last year, as the district searches for ways to help students catch up from pandemic learning loss. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Artificial Intelligence–AI–has been around a long time, but caught everyone’s attention with the launch of generative AI, ChatGPT, and DALL-E. Let’s see what the Ask a Tech Teacher team says: Pros And Cons of AI in Education Artificial intelligence (AI) is making major inroads into education.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

As a case in point, Project Topeka featured an automated essay scoring tool that provided grades 6–8 students with individualized line-level feedback on argumentative essays responding to six different prompts. However, a majority also told us that students were confused about how to respond to the feedback.

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Writing Essay Teachers Feedback 148

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

For example, if you want students to support claims with relevant details, that expectation should be stated on a rubric that is given to students well in advance of when the assignment is due, and should be the focus of lessons, formative feedback, and student reflection. Writing and reasoning get better with feedback and effort.

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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. Teachers who used AI as a teaching partner saw AI feedback as a tool to enhance their teaching and their students’ learning. argument coherence) for teachers.

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Grades Teaching Teachers Essay 173

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested?

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

While teachers may always be the best line of defense for students falling behind, busy schedules don’t always permit the special attention and feedback that students need. That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. Artificial Intelligence Gives Teachers More Time and Specific Data.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

This new solution will harness this transformative moment by enabling educators with an integrated Khanmigo experience that supports human-driven, technology-enhanced essay feedback and grading, lesson planning and rubric creation. We’re using AI to show teachers not just the final essay, but how the student got there.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

She encourages her students to use MyEssayFeedback, an AI tool that critiques the organization of an essay, the quality of evidence a student has included to support their thesis or the tone of the writing. The student could say, once they get the feedback, ‘No, that's not really what I want to do. Mills says.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2024

Say you want to prepare effectively for the North Carolina bar test – they have multiple full-length practice MBEs and thousands of MBE practice questions, plus offer personalized feedback from an attorney for practice essays to help you succeed. Of course, all of the course material can be studied from your computer.

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Exams Study Syllabus Essay 158

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Artificial intelligence in education: A review. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence , 100118.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

“To think about having a sentence on the screen, a child reading that, and eSpark providing immediate feedback and instruction on individual sounds and putting those sounds together…That’s basically teaching [my students] how to read,” said Michigan teacher Michelle VanGilder. Learn more and get started at [link].

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

This essay is the last of a three-part series exploring the challenges facing educators of students who learn and think differently and elevating how SEL strategies can support educators in reframing and addressing those challenges now and in the long term. In a recent essay, Drs. Wanless and Tia N. Christina Cipriano, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It counts when an essay expands from one unclear sentence to three paragraphs of of compelling narrative, even if three paragraphs doesn’t cut it on the rubric. Academic Effort When Junior first came to McClarin, he would rarely submit more than a first sentence when asked to write an essay. Probably not.

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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. is a Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center and Director of Research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence at the Yale School of Medicine.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Teachers can choose a lesson in the program, which guides students through a multi-step process to analyze the reading materials and write a response essay. This framework informs how ThinkCERCA designs its literacy instructional materials and lessons. What we’ve found to be one of the biggest challenges is to help teachers teach writing.”

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Textbooks Essay Writing English 274

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. I demonstrate how to prompt ChatGPT to give useful suggestions that can be used as actionable feedback. as a tool in research project supervision.

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Ethics Intelligence Feedback Language 128

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Many of the conversations I’ve seen about Artificial Intelligence (AI) center on how students might use or misuse this powerful tool. 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?”

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Feedback Writing Intelligence Essay 124

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. ” (Turing, 1950), followed by John McCarthy’s naming of “artificial intelligence” (McCarthy, 2007). This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Artificial intelligence in education: A review. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence , 100118.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Many of the conversations I’ve seen about Artificial Intelligence (AI) center on how students might use or misuse this powerful tool. 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?”

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Feedback Writing Intelligence Essay 115

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era for community college education, presenting both exciting possibilities and complex challenges. Emotional Intelligence: AI lacks the emotional intelligence and empathy necessary to provide effective support and guidance to students.

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