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Baked-in bias or sweet equity: AI’s role in motivation and deep learning

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As educational AI research tries to keep up with AI development, questions remain surrounding the impact of AI use on student motivation and overall learning. Because the tool can assist with assignments like generating essays from prompts, students quickly integrated these technologies into the classroom.

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What Motivates Teachers to Enter the Profession?

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Society has always been fascinated to learn about the motivations of famous athletes, entertainers, and politicians and how they came to their profession. What if, similarly, we learned about the motivations of aspiring K-12 teachers, and used that to predict how effective they will be and how long they will stay in the classroom?

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Grades Fail at Motivating Students. Intrinsic Motivation Works Better.

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What makes this especially challenging is that the traditional ways schools have motivated students are no longer available. They have also eliminated grades as a motivating factor to do well in school. If students aren’t rewarded with an A for their five paragraph essay, why write it? They are disconnecting and disengaging.

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How to combat misuse of AI in student writing

eSchool News

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 important to make the writing process less intimidating.

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Combatting the Challenges of Whole Group Lessons with Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

I hope that a close examination of this approach to designing and facilitating lessons will motivate teachers to explore alternative models that free them from the front of the room. Pain Point: Teachers are frustrated by a lack of student engagement and motivation. Consuming new information (e.g.,

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How to help ESL students improve writing skills

eSchool News

It’s especially true when it comes to writing assignments: With poor writing skills, students can’t deal with essays and other homework the way they need to get a good grade. Think of SAT requiring essay writing or IELTS and TOEFL measuring writing abilities. Above-average writing skills are a must here to succeed.

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3 Reasons Teachers Should Use the Playlist Model

Catlin Tucker

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. This sustained engagement helps maintain their interest and motivation in the learning process.

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