eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It’s generally easy to determine if students have used an AI tool to generate a response to a writing assignment or to generate an entire essay. We have to rethink the full-length essay as the end-all, be-all for assessing student writing skills,” Miller said. It’s intimidating.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 321

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Just as the internet revolutionized learning, AI will be the next game-changer. While the fears of using AI to cheat aren’t unfounded, how many educators have actually tried writing an essay using just AI? Just like the internet, AI isn’t going anywhere–so let’s teach our kids to work with AI, not against it.

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Ethics Education Internet Essay 294

eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

While there are legitimate concerns about ChatGPT and cheating, let’s not forget that educators had similar worries about the use of the internet in classrooms just 20 years ago. And now, doing a Google search is just a basic tool for students to put together an essay.

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Plagiarism Essay Academic Integrity Learning 297

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Computers live in teachers and students’ pockets, the Internet makes information and media ubiquitous commodities, apps offer to aid with all our daily routines, and artificial intelligence unlocks new possibilities for differentiated instruction. Consider, for example, essay grading.

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Essay Feedback Intelligence Coaching 274

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With school libraries beginning to function as digital media centers, these tools enable students to explore new modes of thought and include: Planning, drafting and executing podcasts or audio essays. Workshops on internet and information literacy. Access to audiobooks and online tutorials. Modern Librarian Roles and Responsibilities.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 357

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Bridge the gap between learning and fun with Paper Live’s daily extracurricular classes hosted live by some of the most entertaining instructors on the internet. Paper Accepted gives students access to feedback from college admissions experts who will review their applications and personal essays.

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Essay Feedback Math Assignments 255

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

For instance, after subscribing to a service called EssaySoft, you can tell its essay generator to write a paper on, say, “symbolism in the great Gatsby” (or whatever you need for class). Oh, and if you don’t like it, just click “re-generate” and get a new bot-written essay. They can just have the essay generator do it.”

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Essay Lecturing 201

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. Clicking on the Brisk extension lets teachers see the reading level of any text on the internet. This includes on-demand tutoring along with AI tools that offer feedback on written work.

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Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 327

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Brainfuse offers a comprehensive suite of services, including math, science, reading, writing assistance, and college prep, all available online from anywhere with an internet connection. Writing Lab Expert feedback on essays, reports, and college applications.

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Essay Schools Internet Feedback 163

Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2017

I did not know how to use headers, footers or page number in Microsoft Word, so I got five points off every essay for an entire semester. The report found that in the United States about five million homes (17.5%) with school-age children did not have access to the internet.

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Essay Education Students Internet 167

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They serve as trustworthy alternatives to internet searches, where the information surfaced can be unreliable, untrue, and unsafe. Databases provide full-text access to a wide range of content, including books, magazines, primary sources, images, charts, and peer-reviewed articles by credible authors representing diverse perspectives.

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Peer Review Essay Skills Critical Thinking 271

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

Better internet would help tremendously in our community,” Angel said. Personally, I do not have any type of internet at home. When we have assignments, such as typed essays, I am not able to work on the assignment at home. In rural communities, the problem is even worse — only one in three can access the internet at home.

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Internet Essay Assignments English 162

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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Exams Testing Multiple Choice Questions Internet 218

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. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Critical Thinking 157

Critical Thinking Internet Essay History 157

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

Laptops and internet connections are not available in every household , and even students who usually have such resources available may now find themselves competing for them with siblings or parents studying or working from home. And broadband Internet connections aren’t available everywhere, especially in rural parts of the U.S.

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Distance Learning Syllabus Internet Learning 212

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

In some cases the very technologies that were intended to improve writing, like automatic-essay grading software, have backfired by encouraging a kind of paint-by-numbers approach to writing. That’s why the subtitle of my book is “killing the five-paragraph essay and other necessities.” But Warner is not anti-tech.

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Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! Chelsey McClelland I really loved that every module opened with a fun way that AI can be used — it's not just ChatGPT writing an essay or MagicSchool AI making your lesson plan. I knew of ChatGPT from reading articles online, but I didn't know how it worked.

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Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 207

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Just as the technological revolution of the printing press democratized the authorship and distribution of books, so too does social media and the internet allow for more voices to be heard and for a wide variety of authors—including our students—to connect with audiences around the world.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

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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Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 125

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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Teaching Culture Internet Students 203

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The internet is awash in surveys touting the inseparable connection between kids and technology. Even in middle school, Hyler still sees students struggle with concepts such as proper capitalization and tone, as they navigate between texting with friends and crafting essays or emails to adults. Is it quality writing? It’s a process.

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2022

And even though online education makes higher ed more accessible for some students, it throws up barriers to other students, including those who have limited access to the internet or to relevant devices. It also forecasts that faculty teaching will be “brought in line” with institution values and standards.

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Hybrid Learning Essay Hybrid Courses Learning 148

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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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. And Google Keep’s extension is a fast way to bookmark content on a site and review later in a Doc.

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Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2023

After all, it’s tailor-made to craft the kinds of essays that instructors ask for. In the past, any new approach to cheating has spread slowly, often in secret on dark corners of the internet. So professors have been quick to respond. It's been a very loud alarm bell for people in teaching and learning … at all levels,” he said.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Languages 204

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2023

This way, college kids might get closer to understanding how to write cause and effect essay. In an argumentative essay, the cause-and-effect lays forth the chain of events that led to the current state of affairs. Finding inspiration in cause and effect essay ideas lists on the Internet is a way out if you feel stuck.

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Essay Teaching Methods Instructors Motivation 146

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Students wrote essays arguing whether the bot furthered their understanding of his character or if the bot strayed so far from the book that it was no longer useful. The essays were fascinating. SalingerAI produced the type of canned answers one would expect from a bot trained by the internet.

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Evaluation Essay Students Questions 212

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.

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Essay Disabilities Multiple Choice Questions Math 115

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 2, 2020

Thanks to easy access to internet resources and a serious lack of understanding on the part of many students about what online resources can legally be used, plagiarism has become a huge problem in schools. Online tools like an essay checker are suitable for fixing grammatical and spelling issues. Hence, it is best to avoid those.

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Plagiarism Essay Writing Knowledge 155

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It sounds too simple when I read the dozens of articles that fill the internet so I asked the AI to tell me what it was: “ChatGPT is a computer program that generates text based on what you type to it. The hottest disruptive technology to come to education since iPads is ChatGPT. Highlighted Parts.

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Writing Plagiarism Intelligence Students 158

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

how the internet works. Nobody in the “learn to code” movement argues for this, and every educator would agree with Wolfram's analogy that teaching raw coding syntax alone would be like teaching English handwriting without teaching how to write an essay. Should we teaching coding without computational thinking or computer science?

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Science English Education Languages 160

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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Education Exams Instructors Essay 171

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! In our fourth year-end personal statement roundup, we’ve again asked thought leaders to share their outlooks on education, but with a twist.

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Education Coaching Essay Evaluation 139

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Among them: College admissions is notoriously unclear as to who gets in and why, and the Internet is filled with unsound, out of date advice. Students have the option to freely write admission essays and receive AI-provided feedback or can brainstorm using common application prompts.

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Visiting the internet includes certain rights and responsibilities. Internet use. Along with the rights and responsibilities of good digital citizenship (above), teach the safe and effective use of the internet. Digital Citizenship. While there is a wealth of information available, it comes at a price.

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Skills Students Plagiarism Knowledge 151

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In an always-online world, many students use public Wi-Fi networks to access the internet for homework and for entertainment. They should not, nor should they write them down. A password manager can help students keep track of them. Make VPN Your Friend. But very few use VPNs, or virtual private networks, to secure their online activity.

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Counselling Writing Students Essay 176

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MAY 6, 2022

Limited time offers like flash sales are just one example of the kinds of marketing gimmicks that have become common in the past few years as the internet has become flooded with online course providers promising to help people learn new skills to get ahead in their careers or personal lives.

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Instructors Essay Knowledge Internet 178