Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

From 2012-2018, nearly 2,800 preservice teachers within one of the largest teacher preparation programs in Texas responded to an essay prompt, “Explain why you decided to become a teacher.” We used a natural language processing algorithm to review their responses.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). Machado was nominated by the Bilingual Department Chairperson Brian Donovan who submitted an essay describing how Machado helps his students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

In higher education, predictive analytics often draw from data that an institution has readily available about its students: grades, attendance, online school-related activity, and even historical and demographic information. They look at demographics or what high school or neighborhood a student came from.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

As the Curriculum Specialist with Vancouver Public Schools, I oversee Secondary English Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Running Start, and College in the High Schools. Close reading has become essential for all assignments, and many teachers have used claim-based essays based on each reading as formative assessments.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Whether they go on to college or begin a career immediately after high school, they will no longer have somebody telling them what to do and when to do it. They might write an essay, compile a slideshow presentation, or create a video, for instance. These are skills that will serve students well once they graduate.

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

In higher education, predictive analytics often draw from data that an institution has readily available about its students: grades, attendance, online school-related activity, and even historical and demographic information. They look at demographics or what high school or neighborhood a student came from.

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Essay Language Languages Intelligence 99

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 23, 2022

In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. During virtual learning from 2020 to 2021, that was condensed to 60 minutes and we spent much of our time focused on reading texts, answering text dependent questions and writing essays. With assistance, he was able to produce a five-paragraph essay.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 174

eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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STEM Science Essay Learning 245

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi.

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Counselling Essay Students Study 210

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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Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 207

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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Schools can also choose between different dates and formats for different tests. 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. They said, ‘Please don’t take that away,’” Packer recalls.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. High school students, especially, can feel singled out and embarrassed, even when you do something meant to help.

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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. One project , which uses natural language processing to analyze biases in media coverage of the 2020 U.S. When is this behavior socially acceptable?

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Essay Intelligence High School High School 182

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

As a TA, I even received rubrics with that language. As much as it was my job to teach students to write, I also felt the grading system disadvantaged those students who came in with subpar high school educations and less writing experience. I wanted to design a system that addressed those problems. Schapiro, Barbara.

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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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Academic Integrity Assignments Essay Schools 188

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience. Once teachers choose a lesson, the program provides a six-step process to help students analyze the readings and produce a cohesive essay.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 127

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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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

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

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. Go digital with eBooks and audiobooks.

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Schools Languages Language Reading 246

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Kind Words, Thanks and Acknowledgement Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.: Gabriel Vogel, 11th grade teacher at Grassfield High School in Chesapeake, Va.: Alexandria Adams, 10th grade teacher at Woodside High School in Newport News, Va.: “I

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Essay 158

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 7, 2025

The high school years are all about new experiences, self-reflection, and building skills to use throughout life. Well-crafted journal prompts for high schoolers accomplish all of these goals and they arent just for English class! What was the best thing that happened today? What about the worst? 3a, 3d, 3e; W.9-10.10,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Lisa DiMichele has taught writing to all kinds of high schoolers—from inclusion students to honors students, from kids struggling to finish a sentence to future Faulkners. Some of her students had never finished an essay, let alone crafted sparkling prose. And that recipe succeeded again with her summer school class.

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Essay Feedback Writing English 99

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Back then, the Chinese language program at Latin had begun piloting a proficiency-based model, which is structured differently from a traditional grade-based model. Course scheduling, for example, becomes more complicated with school-wide, mixed-grade language classes. On that front, we were lucky to have the school’s back.

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Grades Essay Language Languages 129

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

in the thick of filling out college applications, that might mean putting off writing an admissions essay or sending in a transcript. Having the language to talk about these things and being able to name them is really empowering.” For a student like Andrew Leonard, a senior at East Wake Academy in Zebulon, N.C.

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Essay Students Quizzes Writing 156

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. . This service offers to detect plagiarism and paraphrased content in more than 100 languages, which is definitely a plus. The best alternative is at your disposal.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Even so, students spend much of their time in an environment where authorship is not held in high regard. In surveys of more than 70,000 high school students by the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% admitted to plagiarism. Writing a good essay requires a great deal of analyzing and thinking outside the box.

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Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 125

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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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 327

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

West-Smith is impassioned about the importance of appropriate feedback, which she says must be timely, relevant, accessible—using language that the student understands, and actionable. Prompts, Essays and More. Revision Assistant's Secondary Education Prompt Library —middle and high school writing prompts organized by grade level.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 138

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. With the unit essay on the Declaration of Independence coming up, I seized an opportunity to make this assignment more personal for Jack. The problem was that it was a completely unstructured, unfocused rant.

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Essay Writing Assignments Learning Styles 109

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

In this episode of the EdSurge On Air podcast, we hear from four educators who share how technology tools engage their students and expanded their classrooms, whether that’s connecting with students around the world or learning a new language through technology and how that can spark community. Here’s part one and two.)

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Technology Students Language Languages 164

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Natural language processing and image recognition are ways in which the machine learns. This will give you an in-depth understanding of topics like natural language technology and computational intelligence. Students can hand in quality, well-written and researched essays to get good grades.

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Students Intelligence Science Essay 147

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. If you have a suggestion for a topic or guest for 2024, please send that my way at jeff@edsurge.com.

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Instructors Attention Lecturing Essay 139

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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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 113

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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High School High School Exams Schools 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school. 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. led to higher scores.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84