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JUNE 24, 2024

Creative writing techniques can make essays more engaging and original while maintaining the required objective structure. However, it’s possible to use creative writing ideas to help you come up with a unique essay. However, essays are more objective, as they require facts and evidence to support your claims.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment. 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. It’s intimidating.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

No wonder: This language model algorithm is smart enough to produce logical and grammatically correct texts for any prompt. According to a new study from Academic Help , 67 percent of students use AI for creating texts – the basis for their essays and other papers. The issue here is not only about the academic integrity violation.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Every English teacher has experienced the frustration of introducing a writing skill, like how to write a thesis statement, over and over again without it “sticking.” That said, I can only read so many essays in a year. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Write an essay prompt on the board.

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JUNE 28, 2024

Essay writing is a crucial skill for academic and professional success because it teaches clear, logical, and persuasive communication. In this blog post, we’ll unlock the secrets to successful essay writing and share 10 proven tips to help you level up your writing game. What is Effective Essay Writing?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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. For example, students can prompt ChatGPT with Help me outline a persuasive essay on solar energy, and it will provide a structured outline.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Explore the benefits and drawbacks of AI in essay writing, including its impact on student learning. AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them? AI’s influence in essay writing is growing, highlighting both advantages and significant issues.

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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. Learning a Language: Acquiring a new language involves mastering vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and cultural nuances.

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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. Differentiating the content, or how students access knowledge, understanding, and skills. writing an essay, completing a multimedia project, tackling a performance task).

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Concerns about academic dishonesty, loss of critical thinking skills, and inappropriate content creation have sparked discussions about banning AI tools like ChatGPT, Grammarly, and others. While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 332

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Students are grouped based on their skill or ability levels and rotate through all the stations. Teacher 1: Provides targeted instruction tailored to each group’s needs, abilities, and skill levels. Teacher 2: Delivers the same instructional content or activity to all groups, regardless of their skill levels.

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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

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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2016

On their mission to assist writers in their skill development, Purdue University offers their Online Writing Lab (OWL) as a free resource for users around the world. There are even learning resources for English as a Second Language students. The Purdue Online Writing Lab. Boomessays.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I specifically love the contest as it’s a chance for students to tap into their individual interests and emphasize their skills and talents in their submission. I combine the picture books with Gilder Lehrman essays in my classroom. The length is manageable for a classroom setting, and the essays cover a wide variety of topics.

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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. Close reading has become essential for all assignments, and many teachers have used claim-based essays based on each reading as formative assessments.

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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 83

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Student agency empowers learners to play a more active role in their own education by taking charge of the learning process under the guidance of skilled educators. Students learn independence and other skills needed for success. These are skills that will serve students well once they graduate.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2017

Schwab profiles a report titled “2017 Designs in Tech” which references writing as among the unicorn skills in design. Both are acquired skills, and Schwab highlights the report’s author John Maeda’s trouble with finding designers who also know the importance of words. My success is based on my ability to put my skills to good use.

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Writing Technology Education Essay 229

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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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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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

The pioneering program empowers educators to teach computational thinking, which are the critical skills that help students solve real-life problems and challenges by expressing them in a way that computers can solve. K-12 students, a full year ahead of schedule. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projections.

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STEM Science Essay Learning 246

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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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's supposed to give them the opportunity to develop those skills and I’m not seeing it necessarily in the conversations I'm having.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2024

When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments — that they’d click a button on a chatbot instead of doing the thinking involved in responding to an essay prompt themselves. The large language model is absent judgment.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

.” — Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin And even some professors with doctoral degrees in English are wondering whether colleges need to do as much these days to teach the skill of writing in light of new AI tools. asked Melissa Nicolas, a professor of English at Washington State University, in an op-ed last year.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo, powered by ChatGPT technology, includes features meant to help students work through math and science problems, analyze text, chat with historical figures, navigate college admissions, and revise essays, among other features. It is also designed to help teachers create instructions for assignments and review student performance.

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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. He took initiative and persevered— all skills I didn’t teach him.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 164

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

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. (We published an excerpt of Wolfram’s post here.). I recently read.

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JULY 12, 2023

It enhances cognitive abilities, emotional intelligence, moral and ethical development, identity formation, communication skills, social awareness, and creativity. Fiction, essays, science. Essays convey the author’s thoughts and analysis of a particular topic. It can be different.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

These efforts are often described as attempts to “ help non-computer science students build the tech skills required for today’s jobs ” so that they are ultimately “ more employable. ” When coding shows up in the curriculum of a liberal arts program, its primary purpose is usually pretty obvious: help students get hired.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 211

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“The National Civics Bee is designed to showcase the knowledge and skills all of us need to thrive in the 21st Century. Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in participating states are invited to submit a 500-word essay addressing a community issue. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

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Math Middle School Middle School Essay 265

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In addition, many students are using AI to write coursework and essays, which has caused a lot of outrage. Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. Factors like body language, tone, empathy, classroom dynamics and real-world context are important.

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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 184

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

This essay was adapted from a piece posted on Medium. I have changed their names in this essay to protect their privacy and they’ve agreed to have their story shared.) All of these families speak a language other than English in their home, and eight of the families are immigrants to the U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan provided strategies and resources for teachers to use in their classrooms, and through this assignment, he learned a variety of skills including how to design compelling professional learning opportunities, how to find and evaluate sources and how to communicate his findings clearly to an audience. Here are a few.

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