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JULY 28, 2017

Barrow Elementary, the project begins with each student selecting one of six nominees from civil rights history to research. They then create a persuasive video essay as well as a watercolor painting showing why their chosen nominee best displays the qualities of peace. Named for our school, David C.

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MARCH 26, 2024

It’s just more complex and time consuming, he says, to gauge how much a student has learned about, say, how to weigh two competing views of a historical event in an essay assignment. It might seem counterintuitive that the same technology threatening to hinder student learning might be used to boost it. It's complex.”

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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History Education Social Studies Essay 193

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JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. By design, CTE programs consider questions that are relevant to this gap. Do students know how to think of their feet?

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JUNE 17, 2024

Heath posed a question that I can’t seem to shake. Mishra and Heath admit they don’t have the answer, but say they think it’s an important question for educators and scholars to consider. The television person values immediacy, not history. Can these tools make us more human, not less? What is the cost?

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

One session on AP European History alone got 845 viewers. “I In its first year, she claims, more than 90 percent of the 400-plus students on the platform passed their AP World History and US History tests. Screenshot of AP World History review session on Fiveable. And she’s starting with subjects that she knows best.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Carlin was explaining how to make history relevant to all students, whether it's the history of hip-hop music, the evolution of the coffee industry or a person you pass on the street. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

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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.

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Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 159

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MAY 16, 2023

They are similar to essays but usually more detailed and longer. Regardless of the course (science, history, or literature), every student has to prepare a research document at some point or the other. You can collect information from various citing sources, including journals, books, articles, and free essays online resources.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. Do you wish your parents would ask you more questions about your day, or fewer questions? Is history an important class for todays teenagers, or is it a waste of time?

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The teacher’s 10th grade class had just finished op-ed essays on a topic of their choice, and Kyle had chosen to examine the economic impact of illegal immigration on the U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

The app offers a personalized feed of entertaining and educational videos, images, questions, and memes, ensuring that students remain engaged while mastering the material. History, World History, European History, U.S. TeachTap currently offers these 11 courses: Nine AP exam preparation courses: U.S

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JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. There were also a number of online communities where Python users could post excerpts of code and answer each other’s questions.

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Science Education Learning Essay 218

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It Starts in the Community I grew up in northeast Denver — a place rich in Black history and culture where the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education enacted the Black Excellence Resolution. Recognizing her potential as a math scholar, I encouraged her to ask questions, embrace mistakes and find motivation in difficult tasks.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Admissions officers pour through a lot of materials, such as resumes and essays, to make the final call on whether or not to accept an applicant. Take ConnecPath ; it’s an AI-based Q&A platform that seeks to answer students’ questions about colleges. But does AI have a role on the admissions office side of the process?

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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! For the first time in human history, our challenge is having too much access to information. Philosophers use logic, reflection, and rhetoric.

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Critical Thinking Internet Essay History 155

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

“Apply Genius answers any question you have about college admissions, personalized for you, giving you access to the same admissions secrets that the wealthiest applicants pay $10,000 or more for,” said Michael Pankowski, a Harvard graduate and co-founder of Apply Genius.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2021, as part of this work, EdSurge launched its first-ever educator writing fellowship and we welcomed seven amazing fellows who, over the course of the year, penned deeply personal essays highlighting the myriad issues educators, school leaders, and learners faced in the midst of the pandemic and political unrest in society.

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Writing Education Essay Ethics 155

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

He passed away the other day, and you can read an essay looking back at his life and work that we published at EdSurge. Maloney: Part of it is recognizing that higher ed has had a history of change throughout its entire existence. But I don’t know that I have a great answer to the question “is it enough?”

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Education History Art Essay 202

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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. I wanted to empower him to find his voice, so we came to the decision together to strip away the traditional in-class readings and extended response questions.

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Testing Essay Writing Motivation 135

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

This drastic class redesign demanded that I ask myself some big questions: what content was required, what elements of learning could students control and what traditional and new measures I could use to gauge progress? Almost every question led to another. History built on Venngage in 2017. Image Credit: Mark Engstrom.

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JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested? Encourage dialogue.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. And how might individual players’ personal histories contribute to their athletic strategy and performance?

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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.

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JULY 7, 2022

She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dark The professor explains the next assignment for the course. Students will need to craft a research question, read relevant sources and synthesize what they learn in a short paper. Releasing it made her question her identity. She calls them by name to answer questions.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 176

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MARCH 2, 2023

To stimulate peer-to-peer interaction, each course at Western Governors offers students a chat function where they post questions and where faculty and other students respond. Performance assessment varies, with students submitting essays, videos or presentations to demonstrate they’ve learned the material.

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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. There's a lot of distrust in experts, and some of it is justified in the sense that when people try to question experts, sometimes people can be a bit like, ‘Oh, well you don't understand it.’ And that's the problem.

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Teaching Peer Review Essay Knowledge 148

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JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. There were also a number of online communities where Python users could post excerpts of code and answer each other’s questions.

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Science Education Learning Essay 148

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JANUARY 22, 2019

This inspired me to seek out a game, or online environment, that could provide more expansive experiences for them—a place that would allow them to explore, on their own or with others, and where I could embed history content for them to discover. On Twitter I came across an exploratory discussion of Minecraft’s potential for school use.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy. A new AI chatbot can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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Instructors Attention Lecturing Essay 132

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., In academic settings, ChatGPT can be used to produce written essays, reports, and responses when supplied with the assignment prompt. Exploring ChatGPT. [1]

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. They question their abilities and wonder if they have what it takes. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 109

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

I don’t rely on essay formulas to craft my briefs, and of course I have never encountered an MBE-style multiple choice question. Will she learn empathy and art appreciation and history and how to work as a member of a team? But the thing is… PMBR and BAR/BRI worked. Test prep works. Will she learn to creatively attack a problem?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Essay History 93

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Assessing student learning used to be as simple as giving a test that consisted of multiple choice, True/False, short answer, and/or essay. Students select the background image that addresses the topic and then link resources to it that provide information in support of the question asked. Each board includes a question.

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Learning Essay Students Testing 104

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JULY 14, 2023

Understanding Citizen Science Citizen science or community science entails the collaboration between scientists and public volunteers in carrying out key tasks such as experiments, data collection, and answering real-world questions. If you want to connect, you can find her on Facebook , Twitter , Medium , and her blog Essay Writing and More.

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Science Participation Laboratory Interdisciplinary 144

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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.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” He believes chief academic officers are best positioned to lead and implement a campus-wide strategy around building digital literacies.

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Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 148