Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Whether text, video or something else entirely, each of these mediums encompasses a form of writing. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. engagement and passion.

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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. AI Writing Review enables students to submit their drafts for lightning-fast feedback. Clicking on the Brisk extension lets teachers see the reading level of any text on the internet.

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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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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. You can talk to ChatGPT like you would with a person, and it will generate text that sounds similar to human writing.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A growing number of companies now let students outsource their homework to a bot—or, more specifically, an algorithm that writes term papers for them based on chosen keywords. 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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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. As always, students won’t have anything written for them or be given answers—Review Center provides rapid feedback on nearly any writing assignment.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They serve as trustworthy alternatives to internet searches, where the information surfaced can be unreliable, untrue, and unsafe. A middle school student interested in researching animals navigates to a subcategory about circus and performance animals and ends up writing a paper on the hidden cruelty behind wildlife selfies.

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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. Services include: Live Tutoring One-on-one academic support in math, science, reading, writing, and more.

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Essay Schools Internet Feedback 155

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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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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JUNE 23, 2016

What is ‘writing’? What they have defined as ‘writing’ is actually writing conventions, tools, and activities rather than its purpose, goals, and definition. This focuses on recording words that are then communicated to others. Today in the 21st Century schools, they’d be wrong.

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Writing Teaching Essay Plagiarism 92

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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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. And at first, our school blocked its use.

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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. Tips for Students to avoid plagiarism while writing. Students have to follow the method prescribed by the school or University.

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Plagiarism Essay Writing Knowledge 161

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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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

writes Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee, in a company blog post. The majority of schools aren’t negligent and many have put data security frameworks in place, writes Toni Birdsong, a family safety evangelist for McAfee, in a company blog post. They should not, nor should they write them down.

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Writing Counselling Students Essay 172

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Some of his writing stretched my thinking in new directions. 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.

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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 Language 204

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

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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. Quick writes on the computer. Digital Citizenship. The question is: Will they participate safely?

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Skills Students Plagiarism Knowledge 155

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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. . Not to mention that you’ll have to spend several hours teaching your students to write without plagiarism, and the program won’t offer too much help with that. .

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

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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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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 174

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

eSpark, an online supplemental curriculum provider for math, reading, and writing, is bringing AI-powered phonics practice to foundational reading instruction this school year. 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.

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

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

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. When our school buildings closed, districts and teachers were tasked with creating remote learning plans for their students. First, educators had to rethink infrastructure.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2018

We are also bringing them robotics kits and tools to learn about the Internet of Things. For example, if a student is writing a paper using pen or pencil, a teacher in the substitution stage will switch that pen or pencil out, and have their student type the paper instead. .

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STEM Essay Education Coaching 132

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

The tool, called Flipgrid , is based on a simple idea—that people on a team (or in a class) might want to share short videos within their group but not with the whole internet. And many teachers use the tool to ask students to give answers in video messages rather than writing out an essay.

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Discussions Essay Instructors Internet 120

Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

During interviews, Venzke says, some schools claim they’re using these tools to comply with laws, such as the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA). For example, asking students to write personal essays or complete worksheets for guidance counselors often leads to schools collecting very sensitive data.

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Schools Counselling Students Internet 162

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors and students press pause for winter break, journalists at EdSurge are likewise taking some time away from writing and editing during the last week of 2023. In each essay, Green examines an element or experience of being human today — the QWERTY keyboard, sunsets, Dr Pepper, Canada geese — and then rates it out of five stars.

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Reading Essay Instructors Culture 147

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

In some cases those investigations led to legal action against companies offering paper-writing services, says Lelo. The problem, though, is that some sites simply set up shop on a new internet server to avoid the ban, and officials say there is no way to completely restrict access to such sites through blocking IP addresses alone.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Attention 157

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So, she may have her students type in Google Docs with their tablets instead of writing by hand, to offer them the instant feedback of the platform’s interactive built-in spelling and grammar checker. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 325

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2018

Jennifer Lockman, a journalism major at UCLA, contacted me about her thoughts on how technology has changed the way she and other professionals write. Luckily for us due to the evolution of technology, everyone with an Android device or access to the internet can get the help needed to write and polish a paper. 1 Take notes.

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Writing English Essay Internet 84

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2016

At EdSurge, we scour the internet for tools to help teachers find the best edtech products out there. Send them a Mark Twain essay or an Agatha Christie mystery. PicLits —Use images and word banks to prompt students to write stories. The site also offers tips for writing a strong rubric. Your students liked Poe?

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Essay Lecturing Writing Internet 104

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Connective uses of technology are for communication purposes, which range from gaining fluency with social media, to composing an essay or a presentation, to writing an email. Discovery means accessing the internet, or some educational software, to learn things, practice new skills and answer questions.

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Essay Textbooks Questions Technology 167

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With tools such as Wakelet, ELL students can write in their native language and teachers can translate on their own. Prior to the advent of the internet as a research tool, librarians in university settings and some high schools focused heavily on citation methods and formats.

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