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How to combat misuse of AI in student writing

eSchool News

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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2024: The year of generative AI

eSchool News

Students often demonstrate their learning through written explanations in the forms of short answer questions and essays. This shift has the potential to make assessments more engaging and more reflective of real-world skills and knowledge application. Gen AI is flipping this on its head.

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Creating Inclusive Classrooms with Co-Teaching and the Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

Teacher 2: Review and Targeted Support – Homework Review and Intervention Note: Teacher 2 reinforces and builds on prior knowledge by reviewing homework and providing targeted instruction, ensuring students understand the content before moving on to new material.

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Beyond simple search: The benefits of topic browsing in library databases

eSchool News

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. They serve as trustworthy alternatives to internet searches, where the information surfaced can be unreliable, untrue, and unsafe.

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How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research

Edsurge

I think there's a feeling amongst a lot of people that there's something broken about the way we produce knowledge in academia,” he says. And it seems to me that the answer to this attack on expert knowledge and on scholarly knowledge is not to retreat. Let's open up our knowledge production processes.

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With Innovation and Empathy, Remote Learning Becomes Accessible for All Students

Edsurge

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. While it is true that we cannot control the pandemic, we can have a causal positive impact on the lives of those around us through our work with students and families.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

For example, instead of traditional essays, instructors might assign reflective portfolios, oral presentations, or collaborative projects that require students to engage deeply with the material and demonstrate their understanding in ways that go beyond what AI can produce.