eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It is well-documented and often repeated in teachers’ professional development that the right type of co-learning can deepen understanding and long-term knowledge gains. How do we evaluate their knowledge? ChatGPT assisted in refining the essay topic or thesis statement, but the initial idea was student-generated.

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Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 337

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Differentiating the content, or how students access knowledge, understanding, and skills. For example, providing concept maps or graphic organizers, engaging learners in discussion (synchronous or asynchronous), or encouraging a reflective practice via a writing prompt. There are three main ways to approach differentiation.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. Each student progresses differently based on prior knowledge, learning preferences, and exposure to the language.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

AP classes are focused on preparing students for the rigor of college coursework, so AP teachers need to look beyond the test to help students gain the skills and knowledge they’ll need in college and in their careers. Essay Rubrics: Early in the semester, provide students with the rubric for the essay sections of the test.

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Exams Essay Testing History 317

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

As a case in point, Project Topeka featured an automated essay scoring tool that provided grades 6–8 students with individualized line-level feedback on argumentative essays responding to six different prompts. 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

APRIL 2, 2019

Writing is more important than ever, but many of today’s students are lousy at it. Warner has been teaching writing at colleges for more than 20 years. And he’s written two books on the topic, including his most recent, called “ Why They Can’t Write. John Warner has some ideas about why that is, and how to fix it.

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Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Although this allowed students to access knowledge, they weren’t empowered to become learners and make choices for themselves. Ten to fifteen years ago, the whole class would read The Old Man and the Sea, analyze how Santiago develops over the course of the text, and write an essay.

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Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Seventy percent of high school juniors and seniors believe AI-powered tools, including ChatGPT, can be a resource in brainstorming ideas for their college essays or short answer responses. AI-powered tools can help students brainstorm ideas for a college essay. ” Please review the complete survey findings at [link].

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Essay Exams Testing Reading 287

eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

In response to these new tools becoming available to the public, many teachers found themselves resisting AI, considering the ways in which it could complicate verifying academic honesty in student writing and artwork, acknowledging the inaccuracies that AI can generate, the human biases that impact the dataset AI uses, and more.

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Essay Education Textbooks Writing 241

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. Do you like watching sports live or on TV?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

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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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

It could be a video, a photo essay, a 3D rendering, or even an interpretive dance performance. Educators talk about writing across the curriculum–what about arts across the curriculum? Provenzano is also the 2013 winner of ISTE’s Outstanding Teacher Award. This is where PBL and maker education intersect. Why maker education?

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Software is great for generating immediate, automated feedback on students’ mastery of basic knowledge and skills. Consider, for example, essay grading. But software cannot give feedback on many of the qualities that really define great writing—such as whether the students’ rhetoric and logic will resonate with her intended audience.

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Essay Feedback Intelligence Coaching 274

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. Related: 4 things you should know about digital portfolios.

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Essay Failure Writing Students 204

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. That said, given the right prompts, AI software can truly deliver some lovely, thoughtful college-level writing.

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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

AI can help students write stronger essays, solve tricky math problems, and even manage their stress levels, all while giving TAs more time to focus on what matters most–building meaningful connections with students. MagicSchool.ai can translate into Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Tagalog.

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Teaching Assistants Teaching Quizzes Intelligence 301

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

How can I best support students with very poor writing skills when the class is not one specifically focused on writing? I'm already encouraging them to use the Writing Center and giving feedback that highlights one or two specific grammar/ clarity issues to focus on. Inoue, director of the writing center at the U.of

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Writing Skills Teaching Essay 155

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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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 339

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As Pink writes in the book: “Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.” How to learn : Give students a voice in their courses by letting them choose how to learn about a topic and/or demonstrate their knowledge. They might write an essay, compile a slideshow presentation, or create a video, for instance.

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

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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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Essay Lecturing 194

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 11, 2023

Writing a comprehensive review is harder than it sounds! The Ask a Tech Teacher crew put together a basic guide for accomplishing this in a balanced, clear manner: Tips and Tricks to Write a Comprehensive Review Students working on research papers are well aware of the significance of a review. So, how to write one?

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Writing Essay Evaluation Feedback 113

eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2015

For years, he would have his students demonstrate their understanding of the great industrial philosophers by writing a comparative essay. Next page: How YouTube helped a shy student thrive — and score a hit video).

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Technology Essay Teachers Social Studies 185

eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

Both were focused on enhancing the learning and knowledge that their textbooks covered, and also on making their curriculums better and more engaging. Right now, Morris and Thomasson are developing a video series focused on the writing process. “We That’s not the way professionals write.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For example, a high school student exploring topics related to climate change could navigate to an interesting article about the pros and cons of Daylight-Saving Time that leads them to write a persuasive essay arguing for a nationwide Sunshine Protection Act.

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Peer Review Essay Skills Critical Thinking 278

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 22, 2019

It brings the best of today’s AI functions to classroom writing programs. The use of AI in writing and education is also displayed through overwhelming employment of various forms of writing checkers powered by AI. In order to accomplish these goals, proper writing skills are a necessity.

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Writing Essay Intelligence Disabilities 110

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

For example, to become better writers, readers, and critical thinkers, Quill.org offers low-income students an AI-powered literacy tutor that provides students real-time coaching and feedback on literacy activities that pair nonfiction reading with informational writing.

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Education Testing Feedback English 303

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In my school, every teacher assesses writing. Even in the tech lab, which is my purview, I provide mini-how-to-write lessons before tech projects that include writing. That’s not just for essays or reports but slideshows, blog posts, comments in forums, and more. Use technology to produce and publish writing.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Students 90

eSchool News

MAY 20, 2020

By taking our engaging STEM courses this summer, students will not only acquire foundational knowledge but also be positioned to excel next school year. SAT Prep—This course will cover in-depth what students need to know for the math, reading, writing, and essay portions of the SAT, including test-taking techniques and practice problems.

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High School High School STEM Laboratory 246

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2024

What does it mean for learners to trade off the zone of proximal development for ease of access to the creation of knowledge?” Postman explained the importance of memory in a culture without writing, but how in a culture with writing, memory is considered a waste of time. Heath posed a question that I can’t seem to shake.

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Teachers Essay Writing Culture 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

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. share knowledge with others to enrich them, collaborate, or accomplish a particular task.

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Writing Teaching Essay Plagiarism 92

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 2, 2020

A few well-know issues that diminish the standards of a students’ writing are listed below: Method of citation: There are different styles for citing references. Tips for Students to avoid plagiarism while writing. Hence, the task of writing works cited has to be conducted parallel with the task of writing the paper.

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Plagiarism Essay Writing Knowledge 162

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

As the person in this role, I work hand-in-hand with our schools and teachers to ensure they have the tools and knowledge they need to recognize and address social-emotional concerns, apply SEL in their daily activities and support our overall efforts to enrich our school community. This same approach would work in other classes as well.

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Teaching English Students History 300

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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Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 202

Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

Both of these tools help to make reading and writing more accessible for all learners. Riley Mulcahy Marketing/Admissions Associate, Compass High School For Mulcahy, the use of a visual tool—a graphic organizer—was pivotal to achieving his writing aspirations. The result: He eventually graduated college as an English major.

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Universal Design Disabilities Mobile Devices Students 209

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2023

Fiction, essays, science. Essays convey the author’s thoughts and analysis of a particular topic. L iterature’s I mpact on S tudents Moral development and self-improvement Books are not only a source of knowledge. These can be: preparing for exams, writing diploma papers, conducting research, etc.

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Essay Ethics Critical Thinking Intelligence 29

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

That makes this a great moment to read and write. Treating others’ essays with care is a great way to begin to engage with new people. Treating others’ essays with care is a great way to begin to engage with new people. Being generous with your knowledge is another great way to extend your network, Phillips says.

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Essay Knowledge Writing Educational Technologies 201

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The social-emotional aspects of programming are as important as the content knowledge. For instance, children work on identifying patterns in math lessons, engage in iterative writing and revising activities during writer’s workshops, and break down multi-step directions to play games in gym class.

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Science Education Learning Essay 218