Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Writing Essay Ethics Plagiarism 187

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

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My classroom is composed of a handful of honors level students, English language learners, and several students with IEPs and 504 plans. Right now my students are writing their first argumentative essay in response to a Lord of the Flies prompt. It’s challenging to support so many students at different levels.

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Skills Essay English Writing 394

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 300

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

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

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. Think of SAT requiring essay writing or IELTS and TOEFL measuring writing abilities.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 286

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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Language Languages Communication English 134

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 274

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 Language 250

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.

Teachers 479

Teachers Art Feedback Writing 479

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.,

Blended Learning 544

Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning Motivation 544

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.

Skills 279

Skills Essay Critical Thinking Learning Styles 279

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 332

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 139

Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 139

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. Find poetry, essays, memoirs, and short stories by Hispanic and Latinx authors or about Hispanic and Latinx culture to read aloud. Learn Spanish!

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Culture Essay Elementary School Elementary School 278

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

It could be a video, a photo essay, a 3D rendering, or even an interpretive dance performance. Provenzano is also the 2013 winner of ISTE’s Outstanding Teacher Award. Maker education is when a person can demonstrate understanding through the creation of an artifact.

Curriculum 300

Curriculum Failure Essay Art 300

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 Language Languages Intelligence 106

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2016

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. Teachers can use this for in-class instruction or out-of-class teaching. Boomessays.

Essay 278

Essay Writing English Language 278

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 Language Languages 198

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

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. They are at an early college level, which fits in nicely with my students reading college-level literature. This principle can be extended to the classroom.

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Students History Essay High School 339

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.

Teaching Assistants 301

Teaching Assistants Teaching Quizzes Intelligence 301

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.

Essay 103

Essay Language Languages Intelligence 103

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. Duolingo , a popular language-learning app, has literally been using AI for years. This includes on-demand tutoring along with AI tools that offer feedback on written work.

Feedback 334

Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 334

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.

Writing 246

Writing Skills Plagiarism Teaching 246

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

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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Essay Education Blended Learning English 215

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.

Metacognitive Skills 339

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 339

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.

Grades 176

Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 176

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.

Education 83

Education Essay Culture Math 83

eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

Using the new writing tools, educators can create assignments –complete with their own writing checklists — that direct students to write essays integrating their reading journal entries, graphic organizers and myON’s embedded dictionary, within the myON platform. “We We are extremely excited to launch myON 3.0”

Gamification 259

Gamification Essay Learning Writing 259

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 ?”

Writing 198

Writing Essay Feedback Evaluation 198

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.

Motivation 206

Motivation Teachers Essay Language 206

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Each group receives targeted support in writing argumentative essays, with the instruction tailored to their specific needs. Writing Support: The teacher provides scaffolding as students begin drafting their essays, offering sentence frames and transitional phrases to help them build coherent paragraphs.

Teaching 394

Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 394

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.

Essay 178

Essay Ethics Feedback Language 178

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.

Fairness 191

Fairness Testing Grades Essay 191

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 286