eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

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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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 328

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 286

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This support means they can learn and improve as they write, without waiting for me to read through every draft. His essay, Money Cant Buy Happiness, included valuable reflections on emotional fulfillment and references to The Great Gatsby, yet his ideas were scattered and the language needed refinement.

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English Writing Teaching Essay 300

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

eSchool News

MAY 7, 2019

The core tenets of computational thinking are the building blocks that help my students become better learners and problem-solvers across every area of their work—from all areas of reading and language arts. When they read a new book or prepare to write an essay, their process must begin with finding data.

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Skills Essay Critical Thinking Learning Styles 279

eSchool News

MAY 4, 2017

You take a student’s essay, start reading it, and it doesn’t feel right. You go to PlagiarismCheck , Copyscape , or any other resource to check that essay for plagiarism and…ta da! The essay has obvious signs of plagiarism. Everything starts with suspicion. You were right.

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Plagiarism Essay Writing Languages 250

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What: Teaching techniques designed to meet the needs of a diverse group of learners with varied needs, skills, abilities, and language proficiencies. writing an essay, completing a multimedia project, tackling a performance task). Consuming new information (e.g.,

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Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning Motivation 544

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Example: Two Teacher-Led Stations – One Differentiated, One Guided Reading and Discussion Reading Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 Teacher 1: Differentiated Instruction Station At this station, students are grouped by their reading comprehension levels.

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Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 394

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Communication as a student in a foreign land depends heavily on knowledge of the language. The Ask a Tech Teacher international team has a few broader issues to think about when considering what barriers face students in foreign lands: Language: The Biggest Communication Barrier for Foreign Students? Ive been on the same page also.

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Languages Language Communication English 134

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Teach your students to count to 10, order food in a restaurant, or just say “good morning” by using a language-learning product such as Mango Classroom , Rosetta Stone , or Duolingo. Read and write different types of literature. Here are eight opportunities for your school or district to celebrate. Learn Spanish!

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Culture Essay Elementary School Elementary School 278

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. AudioPen is an AI-powered tool that converts voice notes into text that’s easy to read and ready to share with students and fellow teachers.

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Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 334

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. Some specific ways TAs can utilize AI to support their students would include: Paraphrasing: Rephrasing materials for lower reading levels. Documentor.cc

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Teaching Assistants Teaching Quizzes Intelligence 301

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

When I was young, we were tracked, starting in first grade, into “high” or “low” reading groups, gifted, etc. As more and more students were educated with their peers, we started to realize that having all students read the same book and take the same test doesn’t work. To do this, we have to change the way we “do” school.

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Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

includes new student and educator interfaces, advancements in content recommendations based upon individual student interests and Lexile reading level, gamification, and improved enhancements to the state-of-the-art monitoring and reporting functions. myON has announced a redesign of its personalized literacy environment for PreK-12.

Gamification 258

Gamification Essay Learning Writing 258

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Sight words are those words that a child should memorize in order to help them learn how to read and write. There are even learning resources for English as a Second Language students. Boom Essay’s Grammar Guide outlines the basics everyone should know in order to get their message across clearly and without error.

Essay 278

Essay Writing English Languages 278

eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

As the Curriculum Specialist with Vancouver Public Schools, I oversee Secondary English Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Running Start, and College in the High Schools. 1) ThinkCERCA : Since the onset of the Common Core State Standards, much of the focus in reading has shifted to informational texts.

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Essay Education Blended Learning English 215

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I combine the picture books with Gilder Lehrman essays in my classroom. They are at an early college level, which fits in nicely with my students reading college-level literature. The length is manageable for a classroom setting, and the essays cover a wide variety of topics. This principle can be extended to the classroom.

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Students History Essay High School 339

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The university has created a way for automated software to give students in large STEM courses feedback on their writing in cases where professors don’t have time to grade hundreds of essays. Wilson researches the application of automated essay scoring. “I U-M presents a really interesting model of adoption.

Essay 138

Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 138

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). Machado was nominated by the Bilingual Department Chairperson Brian Donovan who submitted an essay describing how Machado helps his students.

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Essay English Languages Language 192

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Try asking a Gen AI chatbot such as ChatGPT to customize text to a specific reading level. Language translation : Gen AI can translate educational materials for diverse language needs, making learning more accessible and inclusive. Gen AI is flipping this on its head.

Metacognitive Skills 339

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 339

eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How do you know when a student has turned in a good essay? In other words, she said, is the essay effective in communicating its ideas? Co-hosted by Meredith May and Sean Tupa, the podcast explores how written language helps us communicate and engage with the world around us. It’s simply, does it work ?”

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Writing Essay Feedback Evaluation 198

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 83

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

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. This yielded a total of 160 teacher-assessed essays, which we could compare directly to the AI-given scores and feedback on those same essays.

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Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 175

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

Compared with the past, the majority of young adults don’t read for pleasure. In 1980, 60 percent of 12th graders said they read a book, newspaper or magazine every day that wasn’t assigned for school, one study found. Reading has the potential to open doors, expand horizons, and provide escape. It’s not that they can’t.

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Reading Essay Assignments Fairness 167

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. 20 years ago as a student.

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Fairness Testing Grades Essay 189

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

For more, read part one , and part two. For instance, after subscribing to a service called EssaySoft, you can tell its essay generator to write a paper on, say, “symbolism in the great Gatsby” (or whatever you need for class). Oh, and if you don’t like it, just click “re-generate” and get a new bot-written essay.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Essay Lecturing 194

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In an English class, for instance, teachers might give students a list of books relating to a certain theme and let students choose which book to read. They might write an essay, compile a slideshow presentation, or create a video, for instance. Choice in product lets students decide how to show what they’ve learned.

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

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 Languages Language 168

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The chatbot could be infused with 10 years of learning sciences literature to help analyze and explain in plain language what a dashboard is showing, he adds. Now, though, large language models can easily mark discussion posts as on or off topic with a minimum amount of prompt engineering, Pardos says. Who has agency in that classroom?

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Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 200

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

But he was reading and writing at a kindergarten level, according to diagnostic tests. John, whose name has been changed, is dyslexic and had been struggling with reading and writing for years. In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. So many students are unable to read and write proficiently.

Accessibility 164

Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 164

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2023

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. Poetry uses language and rhythm to express feelings and emotions. It can be different. Children’s literature, memoir, poetry.

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Essay Ethics Critical Thinking Intelligence 29

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I recently read. While I don’t agree that the Wolfram Language is superior to every other modern programming language, from C and Java to Python and Scratch, I think he makes some very compelling points. Wolfram’s own recommendation requires coding in a language. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Wolfram’s blog post.

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Science English Education Language 164

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.

Teachers 217

Teachers Education Instructors Languages 217

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

PebbleGo also has a read-aloud feature, so every student can follow along, regardless of their reading ability. Flipgrid is the video discussion platform that students use to record a video of themselves reading their persuasive essay. And those voices reach the world.

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Essay Learning Styles Students Elementary School 185

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Library innovations in the 21 st century include building a space that students actually want to inhabi, whicht is imperative to facilitating their learning and curiosity when it comes to reading. During the 2021-2022 school year, the Reading School District saw over 13,000 ebooks and audiobooks checked out through the Sora K-12 reading app.

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Schools Languages Language Reading 246

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I think students are reading and writing more than ever. I think students are reading and writing more than ever,” says Jeremy Hyler, an eighth-grade English teacher at Fulton Middle School in Michigan. “Is The internet is awash in surveys touting the inseparable connection between kids and technology. Is it quality writing?

Writing 164

Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 164

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

But Mayfield’s true passion is language—particularly writing. Mayfield spent his grad school years studying natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine learning. It deemphasizes the role of essay writing and communication—the stuff that in fact is probably more valuable for the majority of students.

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Achievement Writing Essay Languages 165