eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

high school students have been quick to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), with 46 percent saying they use AI tools to help them with their school work. For example, we recently had a student who received a high artificial detection score for his work.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While the fears of using AI to cheat aren’t unfounded, how many educators have actually tried writing an essay using just AI? If schools and teachers want to elevate expectations for their students, the role of AI in education can be powerful for rapid feedback and iterative prototyping. How can AI be used in teaching?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in participating states are invited to submit a 500-word essay addressing a community issue. A panel of judges will review the essay submissions and the top 20 students will move on to their local competition to show off their civics knowledge. .”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

But one university is trying to incorporate unstructured data—in particular, college admission essays—to predict how likely a student will persist and graduate on time. “We We always felt there could be intelligence in narrative data that we weren’t tapping,” says Ron Mitchelson, provost and senior vice chancellor of East Carolina University.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

But one university is trying to incorporate unstructured data—in particular, college admission essays—to predict how likely a student will persist and graduate on time. “We We always felt there could be intelligence in narrative data that we weren’t tapping,” says Ron Mitchelson, provost and senior vice chancellor of East Carolina University.

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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

MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods. It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. That’s the only way to get around this.”

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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. Only about half reported doing something interesting in school everyday.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 5, 2024

College Board Kaplan Test Prep Khan Academy reading-writing-practice Mindsnacks SAT Vocabulary –a big part of succeeding on the SAT essay is knowing the right word Number2.com Here are popular online resources to prepare for ACT and SAT tests ( click for updated list ): Albert Online — lots of SAT practice exams, including subject areas.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

Technically, today wasn’t Nick Hom’s first day of school. But it was the first day he and his classmates were united in the newly-built campus of Design Tech High School , a free public charter school founded in 2014. McAndrew used an example of a student writing an essay in an English class.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 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! And when I saw that one of the essay options was about "Oh, The Places You’ll Go," I was inspired to channel my inner Seuss.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

As we look back at the K-12 stories that resonated the most with our readers last year, a trend quickly emerges: 2024 was the year of the personal essay. Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. Here's What Does.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Throughout the spring, Jain, then a junior at San Marino High School in Southern California, worked with a research scientist in France to explore these problems. He credits a high school teacher with getting him hooked on physics. When is this behavior socially acceptable? But he’s working toward it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 27, 2024

These consultants offer college search assistance, test preparation, essay editing, application submission, and interview preparations. College consulting services are particularly valuable in helping students strategically position themselves to increase their chances of acceptance at their desired colleges.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

With college admissions more competitive than ever, a team of Harvard and Johns Hopkins graduates has created a new online consultant that uses artificial intelligence to help high school students get accepted into their dream colleges — for just $10 per month. Learn more and get started at [link].

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and cloud computing are transforming businesses. To become a machine learning engineer, you will need a master’s degree in computer science or artificial intelligence. Students can hand in quality, well-written and researched essays to get good grades.

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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. We had a lot of conversations in the hallway, which is about as private as it gets in a public high school, but none of our chats led him to put his best foot forward.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In fact, three of our top 10 episodes of the year explored various aspects of how new forms of artificial intelligence are impacting teaching and learning. How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters Schools are finding better ways to teach recent immigrant and refugee students. Thanks for listening!

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

In the case of writing, students can love their topic but have no idea how to structure a thoughtful essay around it. Jack reminded me of Matthew Broderick’s character from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”—he had always gotten by on popularity and was barely an average student, yet he possessed above average intelligence and worldliness.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 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 Philip Hickman, superintendent at Columbus Municipal School District , had to say.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2024

When I learned to do citations as a high school student, our teacher required that we physically make the citations using index cards, even while it was possible to have a citation generator churn them out. Can these tools make us more human, not less? So much depends on intention and how we choose to use them. What is the cost?

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

middle and high schools can’t even try ChatGPT without a parent sign-off, even if their schools or teachers want to embrace the technology. Andrew's Episcopal School in Mississippi, in an essay earlier this year. That means most students in U.S.

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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. Teacher saying we don’t have time for essay and I always. Because essay everywhere and to have 30 minutes a week in SEL.

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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. When he transitioned his high school classroom in Phoenix to distance learning, Neal was already using ClassDojo as a way to track positive behaviors.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When ChatGPT was first released, questions swirled around higher ed about it stoking an increase in plagiarism, promoting a lack of critical thinking, and what the future would hold for classic functions like the college admission essay. But with AI in schools, that is simply not the case. AI could transform tutoring. newsletters.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2016

We argued about adaptive-learning technologies or interviewed senior advisors in the Department of Education, and wrote essays asking, “ Do virtual environments hinder democratic participation? ” “ Why adaptive learning? ” and “ Standardization in Testing: Necessary for Education? ”. The word ‘not’ was underlined. Personal blog).

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Syllabus Students Essay Language 101

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Move This World (New York) uses multimedia content to develop social skills and strengthen emotional intelligence in Pre-K through high school. Substantial (501(c)3/Oakland, California) creates training, resources and information customized for each school to help substitute teachers be successful.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! 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, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper? link] Nguyen, T.,

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! 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, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper? link] Nguyen, T.,

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

In another scenario, I had a first-year composition student advised in high school to download Grammarly’s generative app because he’s “never been any good at writing essays,” and assumed Grammarly’s standard style preferable in the college realm to his own emerging voice.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

In another scenario, I had a first-year composition student advised in high school to download Grammarly’s generative app because he’s “never been any good at writing essays,” and assumed Grammarly’s standard style preferable in the college realm to his own emerging voice.

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

Dr Catlin Tucker And right now she is an AI teacher on special assignment for Saddleback Valley USD, where she focuses on integrating artificial intelligence for inclusive practices and is helping to lead kind of the roll out for AI implementation in the district. We have to think, you know, is an essay the right thing?

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