Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

These changes come on the heels of the College Board’s decision last month to move away from SAT subject tests and optional essay tests, which it also produces. We knew errors would happen—if there was a local internet outage when a student tried to submit their test, they’d need to retest.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 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! in 1990, the world was just awakening to the massive communications revolution ushered in by the Internet.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Yet most high school and middle school students are illiterate when it comes to online texts, and can’t discern real information from fake news. Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. We can not omit digital literacy from our curriculum.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels. Sharing other people’s thoughts, jokes and artwork on the Internet is an everyday act. Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. Fluent in Digital Culture — Not Academic Tools It’s understandable that many educators perceive members of Gen Z to be internet-savvy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Many institutions still rely on Turnitin, but the professionals who must check dozens of essays on a daily basis know that this expensive service can be way too slow. . The internet is full of guides on how to resolve various issues with Turnitin, but that’s still not enough to cover all possible problems.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2023

By Rebecca Koenig Some entrepreneurs predict that a new digital world is being born, one where internet users retain ownership of their online activities, thanks to blockchain technology that reduces the control of education institutions and corporations. Tapia In a moving personal essay, Ruby C. What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

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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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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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 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 Shauntel Poulson, a general partner at Reach Capital, had to say. 2017 is shaping up to be a big year of what-if’s.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus. While teaching media arts technology in Grades 1–5, Adam continues to push the boundaries of edtech forward and discover new, insightful ways to keep his students, and his entire school community, excited about learning.

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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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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 our school buildings closed, districts and teachers were tasked with creating remote learning plans for their students.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 6, 2024

How to Track My Child’s Location 12 Innovative Digital Tools to Engage High School Students May Is Homeschool Awareness Month–Check our Subscriber Special Ethics and the Use of AI in Essays Here’s a preview of what’s coming up.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Connective uses of technology are for communication purposes, which range from gaining fluency with social media, to composing an essay or a presentation, to writing an email. Discovery means accessing the internet, or some educational software, to learn things, practice new skills and answer questions.

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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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JUNE 23, 2016

Today in the 21st Century schools, they’d be wrong. Middle and High School. Here’s a sampling of one-tweet Twitter novels you can find on the Internet: ‘He said he was leaving her. Elementary-High School. Elementary-High School. Instead, try something new. Twitter Novel. plot/pacing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Make Study.com courses available to highly-motivated homeschoolers who want more depth in studies or college credit while in high school. How to Prepare for the SAT Essay. Each course has about a hundred videos, each 5-10 minutes in length.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2018

Taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has become a right-of-passage for high school students as they leave formal education and enter the next phase of learning. In an earlier article , I focused on preparation for the essay portion of the SAT. Also available is a Chrome app to sync learning across the Internet.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

The opponent might be a classmate or an anonymous person on the Internet, depending upon the program you select. Have students type a school project (such as a book report or essay) while paying attention to keyboarding skills. Cyberbullying is a critical topic that most schools try to cover with a one-and-done sort of approach.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

Despite its many advantages, online schools also risk deepening inequalities, especially cultural ones. Not all families have equal access to technology, stable internet, or a quiet learning space. Traditional schools often teach a national curriculum designed to align with the values, history, and priorities of a specific country.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

And a significant portion of my work revolves around engaging these institutions and being more effective in terms of, one, recruiting these students, but also marketing to the community’s organizations, the advocates, the advisors, the counselors, high school teachers who might be also engaged in this work, too. But Penn is hard.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

After hitting snooze a few times, she jumps out of bed and checks TikTok and Insta to find out what’s trending before getting ready for school. She barely submitted the essay that was due in English class. Bada had them critique their ChatGPT-designed essays. Both Lara and Maria are in their first year of high school.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Students and parents grieve for lost promotion ceremonies, prom and high school graduations. Yet, in the midst of this widespread longing for school-as-we knew-it, educators are equally relishing the opportunity to reimagine education post pandemic. Around the world, people are mourning. For loved ones, principally.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

Maria Bot can only access a pre-approved sliver of the Internet. Thumbing through its pages, you might have discovered a brief essay penned by a prolific writer of science and science fiction, Isaac Asimov. The New Teachers” inspired Barry, a former high school principal, to experiment with robots in the classroom.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 25, 2019

Here are two definitions of fake news: “false stories that appear to be news, spread on the Internet or using other media , usually created to influence political views or as a joke” — Cambridge English Dictionary. Readers see a particular news story or set of facts all over the Internet, making them assume it must be true.

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Critical Thinking Internet Beliefs Essay 92

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

Clint Smith Well, I taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland, for a few years before I went to graduate school, and for me, that experience very much served as the catalyst for every decision that I've made about how to navigate my life moving forward. That essay is a reminder. And the students!

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Technology History Learning Writing 121

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 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! radio and televisions in the early 20th century and online learning and MOOCs via the Internet in the early 21st century.)

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