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How Kai Cenat saved my high school English class

eSchool News

Most students who decided to use generative AI to cheat on one of my assigned essays would do so by plugging my prompt into ChatGPT or Google Gemini, watching the AI generate a complete essay in moments, and then lazily pasting the text into their Google Doc.

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China’s kindergarten coders: The AI arms race begins at age 4

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Beginning in kindergarten, children are exposed to age-appropriate AI tools, taught how to interact with large language models, and trained to think computationally in ways designed to mimic how AI “thinks.” Learning AI like a language Neuroscientists have long known that language acquisition is far more effective in early childhood.

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Lights, camera, literacy: Student-created book reviews inspire a global reading culture

eSchool News

Rather than writing traditional essays or book reports, my students were invited to create short video book reviews of their favorite titles–books they genuinely loved, connected with, and wanted others to discover. The assignment? In multilingual classrooms, these skills are often overlooked in favor of silent writing tasks.

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Educators Speak Out About Leadership, Identity and Systemic Change

Edsurge

Before we usher in the 2025-2026 EdSurge Voices of Change Fellows, we want to reflect on the important themes our recent cohort of fellows wrote about in their personal essays. Hind Haddad, an Arabic language teacher in Columbus, Ohio, experienced many microaggressions as a Muslim educator.

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My Journey in Alternative Grading: From Curiosity to Clarity

Faculty Focus

As a TA, I even received rubrics with that language. Because everything was graded complete/incomplete, three-sentence reading responses held the same weight as thousand-word essays, making it unclear how much time I expected them to spend on a given assignment. Students were still demotivated by a lack of clear expectations.

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8th Grade ELA Teacher Essentials: 11 Top Teaching Tools

Teachers Pay Teachers

Maintain a steady stash of supplies Anyone who’s taught language arts (or any class, really) has heard “I forgot my pencil” more times than they can count. For students who are testing below grade level, incorporate the CCSS for language arts that are closer to their actual abilities.

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Catch them Learning: A Pathway to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

Cult of Pedagogy

Use rubrics as a shared language of the route that teachers and students can use formatively to navigate the path toward high-quality work rather than as a summative tool to justify grades. Evaluating the detectability of AI-generated texts among student essays. link] Fleckenstein, J., Keller, S. Kller, O., & Mller, J.