Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 18, 2023

Many students dread IB essays. Read how to draft an IB extended essay below Writing Strategies for an Extended Essay in the International Baccalaureate Program IB is a rigorous two-year project for personal and academic development. One of them is the extended essay. Hence, you need all the help you can get.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Evaluation 148

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Below is an image of teacher responses to the following questions: What are the benefits and challenges of the whole group, teacher-led model from your perspective? What: Teaching techniques designed to meet the needs of a diverse group of learners with varied needs, skills, abilities, and language proficiencies.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2020

Providing substantive comments on stacks of student essays, however, is highly time-consuming for busy teachers. As a result, teachers can be reluctant to assign many essays that require students to produce multiple drafts or provide extensive comments on early drafts of students’ writing.

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Evaluation Writing Essay Teachers 265

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

It begs the question, What is the value of racing through material if students don’t understand or retain it? 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.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

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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Education Essay Culture Math 120

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

It could be a video, a photo essay, a 3D rendering, or even an interpretive dance performance. Combining PBL with makerspaces (also called maker education) gives educators an infinite number of projects, assignments, and activities that engage students and truly immerse them in learning.

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Curriculum Failure Essay Art 300

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

The teacher uses guided reading strategies, asking questions that help students focus on basic elements like characters and setting before discussing the moral. The teacher uses questioning techniques to encourage students to cite textual evidence supporting their understanding of the story’s moral.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In English language arts, students need to analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot. 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

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Language translation : Gen AI can translate educational materials for diverse language needs, making learning more accessible and inclusive. Students often demonstrate their learning through written explanations in the forms of short answer questions and essays. Gen AI is flipping this on its head.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

From AI-powered tutoring that adapts to each student’s needs to real-time language translation for multilingual learners, these tools offer endless possibilities. This can be helpful in reverse as well–if students are more comfortable writing in their native language, they can do so, and then the TA can translate it.

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Teaching Assistants Teaching Quizzes Intelligence 278

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Using technology to score essays is nothing new.

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Fairness Testing Grades Essay 198

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. We recently completed an evaluation of an AI-equipped platform through which middle school students could draft, submit and revise argumentative essays in response to pre-curated writing prompts.

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Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 186

eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How do you know when a student has turned in a good essay? It can be tempting to answer this question as former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said in describing obscenity: I know it when I see it. In other words, she said, is the essay effective in communicating its ideas? It’s simply, does it work ?”

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Writing Essay Feedback Evaluation 197

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

As professors and researchers in university teaching and learning programs, we’re fascinated by this question. From 2012-2018, nearly 2,800 preservice teachers within one of the largest teacher preparation programs in Texas responded to an essay prompt, “Explain why you decided to become a teacher.”

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Motivation Teachers Essay Language 209

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching metacognition equips ELLs with the tools needed to navigate not only language acquisition but also the demands of various subject areas, from math and science to history and literature (Flavell, 1979; Schraw & Moshman, 1995). Translating phrases into Spanish helped him connect new terms to his native language.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Language 165

eSchool News

MAY 22, 2017

Paralleling writing with the rare and sought after creature who displays great power dismissed any questions I had about professional relevance. The best writing seamlessly puts these together so the audience does not even realize they had a question. Writing as Job Market Differentiator. Writing for Great UX. Writing for AI.

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Writing Technology Education Essay 225

eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

GIA is a type of AI that can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. This means that students will soon be able to use GIA to complete their homework, write essays, and even create their own works of art.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 264

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). What is ChatGPT?

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 337

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

These days, proponents of learning analytics are exploring how the advent of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools bring new possibilities and raise new ethical questions for the practice. Now, though, large language models can easily mark discussion posts as on or off topic with a minimum amount of prompt engineering, Pardos says.

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Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 202

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

But as generative AI tools like ChatGPT sweep into mainstream business tools, promising to draft properly-formatted text from simple prompts and the click of a button, new questions are rising about what role writing centers should play — or whether they will be needed in the future. Does it represent my voice?

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Writing Instructors Essay English 206

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The teacher’s 10th grade class had just finished op-ed essays on a topic of their choice, and Kyle had chosen to examine the economic impact of illegal immigration on the U.S.

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Essay Beliefs Language Languages 168

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2023

The technology, which emerged just a couple of months ago, can answer just about any question you type into it, and can adapt those answers into a different style or tone on command. After all, it’s tailor-made to craft the kinds of essays that instructors ask for. The result is it generates text that sounds like a person wrote it.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Language 204

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

This strategy challenges them to generate an inquiry question they want to explore and answer. Once they have their high-interest inquiry question, they can use the 5Es inquiry cycle engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluateto work through their investigation. They can do this on their own or with the help of AI!

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Testing Learning Critical Thinking Essay 195

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware. Anderson says.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 213

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

After all, students quickly spread the word on TikTok and other social media platforms that with a few simple prompts, a chatbot could write an essay or answer a homework assignment in ways that would be hard for teachers to detect. They're being cautious about the language they use to ensure they're not prohibiting the use of AI altogether.

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Teachers Education Instructors Language 217

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. So then the question became how to pull that off. Schools can also choose between different dates and formats for different tests. At-home testing is not a long-term option.

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Exams Testing Multiple Choice Questions Internet 218

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

Teachers’ perspectives on the rubric underscore the questions we must continue to ask as edtech products embed and evolve logics that reduce—rather than increase—transparency in how the technology facilitates student learning. 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

AUGUST 23, 2022

In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. During virtual learning from 2020 to 2021, that was condensed to 60 minutes and we spent much of our time focused on reading texts, answering text dependent questions and writing essays. With assistance, he was able to produce a five-paragraph essay.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 174

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. Do you wish your parents would ask you more questions about your day, or fewer questions? If you had to start a career today, what career are you most qualified for?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo is still in its pilot phase but is designed to guide students as they progress through lessons and ask questions like a human tutor would, according to Khan Academy spokesperson Barb Kunz. District leaders also developed plans in science and English language arts that focus on new approaches to learning to boost student achievement.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 262

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2023

No one questions whether literature influences the formation of student personalities. Fiction, essays, science. Essays convey the author’s thoughts and analysis of a particular topic. Essays convey the author’s thoughts and analysis of a particular topic. It can be different.

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Essay Ethics Critical Thinking Intelligence 29

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

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. But first she has them examine the role formal and informal language plays in their own writing. “I Where was your conventional language?

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

What a good question. 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. I still grade each point complete/incomplete.

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 70

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

To that last question, Sean Arnold, a STEM coach and special educator for the New York City Department of Education, has a suggestion. Arnold : This has been the big question from so many people in the city. How are schools adjusting? What resources are they turning to? And what’s most important to focus on? They have visual prompts.

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Universal Design Students Special Education Language 215

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience. Once teachers choose a lesson, the program provides a six-step process to help students analyze the readings and produce a cohesive essay.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 127

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

I had just transitioned back into the classroom at Latin School of Chicago from a job in publishing and this was not the kind of question that I had prepared myself to answer. Back then, the Chinese language program at Latin had begun piloting a proficiency-based model, which is structured differently from a traditional grade-based model.

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Grades Essay Language Languages 129