Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

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. Step 2: Put students into small groups and give them 5 minutes to construct a solid thesis statement in response to the essay question. After all, the thesis is the most important sentence of an essay.

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Essay Writing English Languages 422

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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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Essay Writing Attention Feedback 173

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APRIL 15, 2024

Exploring diverse writing exercises, experimenting with different perspectives, and seeking inspiration from various sources can cultivate creativity and enhance essay writing skills, with the option to have professionals write me an essay providing valuable insights and further honing one’s craft. Start small.

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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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Essay Writing Plagiarism Communication 157

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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

JUNE 28, 2021

Ability to maintain one calendar for teachers who share the same students, which helps to avoid assigning “big assignments” like assessments and essays at the same time. She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school. It can be easily shared with other teachers or administrators.

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Essay Assignments Writing Middle School 545

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APRIL 29, 2024

From the three-paragraph essay to one that lives up to the purpose of essays is a big leap both scholastically and skills-wise. Here, we delve into practical tips and strategies to transform your writing from good to great, ensuring your essays are clear, compelling, and academically rigorous.

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Essay Writing Skills Plagiarism 158

eSchool News

MAY 22, 2017

In an age of technological advancement, it’s easy to feel obsolete. Katherine Schwab recently wrote an article that not only put my fears at ease, but declared the written word as vital to emerging technology. She outlines some critical and practical ways writing is needed when designing user interaction with technology.

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Writing Technology Education Essay 219

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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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Essay Writing Plagiarism Evaluation 148

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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English Writing Teaching Essay 288

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 318

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 264

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

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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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Language Languages Communication English 124

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers. Misconceptions about AI in education 1.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 322

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Online technology tools can be an incredible asset in the classroom, enhancing the learning experience for students and making the teaching experience more pleasant and less stressful. There are even learning resources for English as a Second Language students. Teachers can use this for in-class instruction or out-of-class teaching.

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Essay Writing English Languages 278

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.

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 139

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This year marks a significant milestone in integrating advanced AI technologies into educational practices, heralding a new era of teaching and learning. Language translation : Gen AI can translate educational materials for diverse language needs, making learning more accessible and inclusive.

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Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 332

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.

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Writing Skills Plagiarism Teaching 246

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

It’s easy to think of the ways that technology can make humans feel alienated or alone: less in-person interaction, or feelings of FOMO—that’s the Fear of Missing Out—from social media. But technology has also brought people—and teachers and students—together in new ways that have inspired learning. Here’s part one and two.)

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Technology Students Languages Language 164

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As part of the cohort and with the free, standards-aligned resources from America250 available to all (including the contest for students), I get to try new technologies and ideas right in my classroom. I combine the picture books with Gilder Lehrman essays in my classroom. This principle can be extended to the classroom.

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Students History Essay High School 332

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

But one university is trying to incorporate unstructured data—in particular, college admission essays—to predict how likely a student will persist and graduate on time. “We We always felt there could be intelligence in narrative data that we weren’t tapping,” says Ron Mitchelson, provost and senior vice chancellor of East Carolina University.

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Essay Languages Language Intelligence 102

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. MATHia is an intelligent math software supported by sophisticated AI technology and is designed to provide individual student support and insightful data.

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Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 324

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 281

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 182

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

It’s possible to combine PBL and maker education across the curriculum–and during a must-see ISTELive 24 session , Nicholas Provenzano , a teacher, technology coordinator, and makerspace director at University Liggett School in Michigan, demonstrated just how to do it.

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Curriculum Failure Essay Art 288

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

But one university is trying to incorporate unstructured data—in particular, college admission essays—to predict how likely a student will persist and graduate on time. “We We always felt there could be intelligence in narrative data that we weren’t tapping,” says Ron Mitchelson, provost and senior vice chancellor of East Carolina University.

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Essay Languages Language Intelligence 97

eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

[ Editor’s note : “My Tech Essentials” is a new monthly feature on eSchool News that highlights the choice of ‘must-have’ technology used by one tech-savvy educator; with the hope that other educators might also find these peer-tested tools useful. Our 1:1 approach to technology has allowed us to move into an era of blended learning.

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Essay Education Blended Learning English 201

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 195

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

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. They can just have the essay generator do it.”

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Essay Lecturing 199

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

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.” We used a natural language processing algorithm to review their responses.

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Motivation Teachers Essay Languages 208

eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

The spotlight is on Mike Daugherty , Director of Technology and Innovation in Ohio’s Chagrin Falls Exempted Village School District. We are focusing on the efficiencies AI can create, how AI can be used to increase student learning, and the ethics of using this new technology. What is your biggest IT challenge today?

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 260

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 171

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Embracing the insights of the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force, I have leveraged LLMs (large language models)like ChatGPT-4 as tools and allies in refining my writing. Whether crafting essays, conducting research, or aiding in multidimensional tasks, AI’s role is undeniable and pivotal.

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Essay Writing Critical Thinking Languages 276

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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Writing Teaching Essay Languages 207

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 Languages 159

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But the increasingly sophisticated technologies that people have come to rely on should not absolve personal responsibility for learning how to spell, write or communicate, says Dave Eggers. Increasingly there’s less choice about when you use technology and when you don’t.” By no means is Eggers a luddite. The centers all have laptops.

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Technology Writing Beliefs Essay 167