Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Irritation and stress from such tasks are like poison that makes instructors lose energy and harms their nerves. . Since the COVID-19 pandemic has made the workload even heavier, many instructors have felt how awful it is to use an unreliable plagiarism checker. Still, let’s take a look at the actual pros and cons of Turnitin.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

In the early days of online education, I imagined that virtual classrooms would follow the same basic model as in-person ones, with an instructor leading the same number of students typical in a campus class. Students attend WGU entirely on screen, with instructors engaging with them virtually by email, phone, text and video.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators. I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! What were your goals?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2023

By Rebecca Koenig Online courses offer students increased flexibility—which is another way of saying they shift the burden of creating structure from institutions and instructors to the students themselves. Tapia In a moving personal essay, Ruby C. What should teenagers do after high school in these changing times?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

The free online conference, called AI x Education , aimed at getting teachers at colleges and high schools up to speed on the latest AI tools like ChatGPT, and to encourage them to try to use them this fall. Others, though, said they use ChatGPT to make suggestions to make the essays they wrote better.

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Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We’re excited to bring you more episodes this year, including more installments in our new series about growing public skepticism about higher education and the impact that is having on the choices students make after high school. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. So some colleges and instructors have started to think about how to help students get up to speed on their digital and technical skills.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. Assess the assessment Kevin Allardice is an English teacher at Mercy High School in Burlingame, CA and the author of the novels Any Resemblance to Actual Persons and Family, Genus, Species.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 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! What I’ve observed at UNC is that the most innovative instructors use the learning management systems provided by the college the least.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Introduction High school is a defining period in a teenagers life. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 16, 2025

A few weeks ago, I went to my daughters open house at her high school and had a chance to meet her teachers. Who I am in that space is simply one version of mejust as I’m a different version of myself at a family gathering, my daughter’s high school open house, or even waiting in line at the DMV.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

Middle schoolers have long been eligible to enroll in college classes in California, though only a few, high-achieving students actually do it. Navigating (college) as early as middle school is unheard of in their community, she said. So when they experience success, it really motivates them to continue. Chaidez wants to go further.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Instructors should take reasonable steps to address academic misconduct. link] Nguyen, T.,

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Instructors should take reasonable steps to address academic misconduct. link] Nguyen, T.,

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 16, 2025

A few weeks ago, I went to my daughters open house at her high school and had a chance to meet her teachers. Who I am in that space is simply one version of mejust as I’m a different version of myself at a family gathering, my daughter’s high school open house, or even waiting in line at the DMV.

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Instructors Lecturing Essay Art 59

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. I came to alternative assessment alongside many other instructors as COVID-19 forced seasoned instructors to grapple with assessment policies.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A professor or educator can spend a lecture or semester teaching the curriculum, but if you ask ChatGPT what the biggest takeaways from the war are, it’s possible and likely a learner is provided with even more context and historical facts via the chatbot than what is possible for an instructor to cover from a set curriculum. newsletters.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

And Jones admits that guidance counselors at high schools she’s approached have been reluctant to recommend the unusual college with no accreditation. Before coming to Wayfinding, Stewart worked as an instructor at Outward Bound, as well as at a variety of software companies. I get to know the students really well.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Why It Works A study published in the journal Learning and Instruction showed that humor used by instructors can improve knowledge retention and student satisfaction. Real School Example A teacher introduced the Cold War by comparing it to a dramatic “high school friendship breakup.” The result?

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

Traditional schools often teach a national curriculum designed to align with the values, history, and priorities of a specific country. Online schools, in contrast, tend to adopt international programs like the U.S. High School Diploma, IB, or British curricula. With structure, it becomes the heartbeat of the school.

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Culture Schools Languages Language 52

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 216

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph essays. The five-paragraph essay is a topic long debated by educators, and strong opinions abound. Lee High School in Baytown, Texas.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2015

This take on document-based questions turns students into mentors and instructors. My high school students were sometimes doodling on the paper, staring out the window, or hoping to just get the answers at the end from myself or a friend. Kelly Grotrian teaches social studies at East Brunswick High School in New Jersey.

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Learning Feedback Essay Lecturing 279

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

So some instructors are trying a different approach to guard against AI cheating — one that borrows a page out of criminal investigations. If you've ever taught middle school writing, which I have, or if you taught early high school writing, their writing does not change that much in eight months. Yes, it gets better.

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Essay Local Government Writing Plagiarism 201

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. Thumbing through its pages, you might have discovered a brief essay penned by a prolific writer of science and science fiction, Isaac Asimov.

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Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 154

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2024

There’s no neatly wrapped solution to tie up her essay — because her school hasn’t devised one. Gen Z Teaches History” is her Millennial take on how today’s high school students might deliver their own classroom lectures one day, with youthful slang (what’s “rizz?”) and Taylor Swift references to spare.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

And teachers in her school district have taken made their own separate efforts. One ESL instructor started a project called Saving Stories to fill a gap of children’s stories written in Napolese or Karen. Adults and elders in the refugee community guide the story narratives, while high school art students created the graphics.

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