Essay History Peer Review 
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 5, 2023
While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group. Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning. It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding.
Edsurge
JULY 25, 2023
It was a podcast version of the BBC radio show In Our Time, where a panel of academics discussed the history of ideas. Because let's say a student essay of 2,000 to 3,000 words, you can't easily read that out on a podcast. Ian Cook, a longtime professor and social anthropologist, still remembers the first podcast he ever heard.
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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. He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. It also helps break down the barrier between critical and creative thinking.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 17, 2017
Our literacy coach and English teacher, Heidi Crocker, found a product from Turnitin – Revision Assistant – that used a powerful technology to assess writing and would turn the data it uncovered into feedback that students could apply to their essays immediately. We decided to give it a try.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 30, 2025
For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 30, 2025
For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission.
Edsurge
JULY 11, 2018
Among the top results: a slick animated video called “Problems in Public Education,” a rant arguing that all public education “kills creativity,” and a video essay titled “public ‘education’ has become indoctrination and distraction.” And that was just on the first page.
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