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. But even with all this excitement, there are still many questions to answer. For example, we recently had a student who received a high artificial detection score for his work.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

Our district is embracing artificial intelligence. We are working to provide professional development on various generative artificial intelligence tools to our staff this year. Generative artificial intelligence (GIA) is the next big edtech advancement that I expect will impact students in the coming years.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 268

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) is supporting the creation of powerful tool suites that can enhance the teaching and learning process, it seems reasonable to identify some ways that teacher assistants can use these tools as well. The nationwide shortage of teachers has caused a similar shortage in the ranks of teacher assistants.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

AI’s rise in popularity has brought with it questions about ethics, skills students will need for workplace success, and how to balance negatives with positives when it comes to teaching with this new generative tool. Here are five insights around AI in education: What is the best AI tool for teachers? How can AI be used in teaching?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Key points: Gen AI is a game changer for all industries due to its ability to produce original outputs Don’t miss out–stay up to date on AI in Education Can artificial intelligence help teachers improve? Students often demonstrate their learning through written explanations in the forms of short answer questions and essays.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2023

The question, of course, is whether this fancy newcomer is the secret weapon educators have been waiting for or just another high-tech toy with a lot of hype and little substance. A brief primer on generative AI For the uninitiated, generative AI is a branch of artificial intelligence that can create new content from scratch.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

This article explores the role of metacognition in enhancing learning outcomes for ELLs and demonstrates how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can support metacognitive growth. The answer lies in two transformative strategies: metacognition and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI). and Che Guevara.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 174

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing. They scored ChatGPT’s work using the same College Board rubric their essays were evaluated against.

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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Using technology to score essays is nothing new.

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Fairness Testing Grades Essay 189

eSchool News

MAY 22, 2017

Paralleling writing with the rare and sought after creature who displays great power dismissed any questions I had about professional relevance. The best writing seamlessly puts these together so the audience does not even realize they had a question. Writing as Job Market Differentiator. Writing for Great UX. Writing for AI.

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Writing Technology Education Essay 229

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

These days, proponents of learning analytics are exploring how the advent of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools bring new possibilities and raise new ethical questions for the practice. The hope is that new AI tools will allow for replacing many multiple-choice exercises in online textbooks with fill-in-the-blank or essay questions.

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Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 200

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

As artificial intelligence, and in particular ChatGPT, infiltrates higher education, faculty remain on edge. Jonathan Lethem’s classic essay, “ The Ecstasy of Influence ,” explains as much: Despite the fact that creation is a social phenomenon, creativity is threatened by “the idea that culture can be property– intellectual property.”

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

As artificial intelligence, and in particular ChatGPT, infiltrates higher education, faculty remain on edge. Jonathan Lethem’s classic essay, “ The Ecstasy of Influence ,” explains as much: Despite the fact that creation is a social phenomenon, creativity is threatened by “the idea that culture can be property– intellectual property.”

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

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. These values may show up embedded into the logic of questions, as well as on expectations of speed of completion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 30, 2024

These may include standardized test scores (SAT or ACT), high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and personal essays. Write a Compelling Personal Essay Your personal essay is an opportunity to showcase your personality, experiences, and aspirations. A well-crafted essay can set you apart from other applicants.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware. Anderson says.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 211

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The chatbot offered an opportunity to ask the burning questions that often chase a reader after consuming a great work of fiction. And they were eager to do that through a new tool — it gave them a chance to evaluate the hyped-up market for artificial intelligence (AI) for themselves. The essays were fascinating.

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Evaluation Essay Students Questions 210

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s a free AI chatbot that can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. A headline in the Atlantic magazine put it bluntly: “Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay?” By now you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT.

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Teaching Essay Questions Education 217

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Newark Public Schools wants to see a districtwide expansion of an artificial intelligence tutoring tool after it was piloted at First Avenue School last year, as the district searches for ways to help students catch up from pandemic learning loss. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2023

The technology, which emerged just a couple of months ago, can answer just about any question you type into it, and can adapt those answers into a different style or tone on command. After all, it’s tailor-made to craft the kinds of essays that instructors ask for. The result is it generates text that sounds like a person wrote it.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Languages 198

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2023

No one questions whether literature influences the formation of student personalities. It enhances cognitive abilities, emotional intelligence, moral and ethical development, identity formation, communication skills, social awareness, and creativity. Fiction, essays, science. It can be different.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. We recently completed an evaluation of an AI-equipped platform through which middle school students could draft, submit and revise argumentative essays in response to pre-curated writing prompts.

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Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 175

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. Inquiry about integrity begins with the question Does this work accurately represent the students skills and understandings?”

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

After all, students quickly spread the word on TikTok and other social media platforms that with a few simple prompts, a chatbot could write an essay or answer a homework assignment in ways that would be hard for teachers to detect. We’re not against tech, but the question is ‘How do we use it thoughtfully?’” That’s nuts. That’s nuts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

You know artificial intelligence has hit mainstream when the elderly grocer at the local supermarket asks how he can get into AI. When I started graduate-level work with machine learning tools at UC Berkeley in 2011, few people outside academia were discussing artificial intelligence. It wasn’t always this way. How can we trust it?

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Essay Evaluation Intelligence Plagiarism 125

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

Teachers’ perspectives on the rubric underscore the questions we must continue to ask as edtech products embed and evolve logics that reduce—rather than increase—transparency in how the technology facilitates student learning. Proficient definition—“The essay introduces a clear claim based on the topic or text(s). See Exhibit 1.)

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Writing Essay Teachers Feedback 148

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

But as generative AI tools like ChatGPT sweep into mainstream business tools, promising to draft properly-formatted text from simple prompts and the click of a button, new questions are rising about what role writing centers should play — or whether they will be needed in the future. Does it represent my voice?

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Edsurge

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. In a recent book exploring the influence of generative AI on teacher education, two researchers, Punya Mishra and Marie K. What is the cost?

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Teachers Essay Writing Culture 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

ChatGPT can be used for a variety of text-based tasks such as having a conversation, answering questions, writing content, and more.” You can talk to ChatGPT like you would with a person, and it will generate text that sounds similar to human writing. ” That is so human-like, it’s scary. Highlighted Parts.

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Writing Plagiarism Intelligence Essay 159

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2022

It’s the question that nonprofit association Educause poses annually to college faculty, staff, administrators and researchers from around the world. Artificial intelligence tools have the potential to help process big datasets, but privacy, ethics and equity worries about the use of data remain unresolved.

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Hybrid Learning Essay Hybrid Courses Ethics 148

Edsurge

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. Artificial intelligence has emerged as a technology that can help these students make decisions. There are companies that already use AI to help students with the admissions process.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. These intelligent tools can adapt pacing based on the student’s ability … and provide targeted, corrective feedback in case the student makes mistakes, so that the student can learn from them,” states an eSchool News report released earlier this year.

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