Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

And plenty of educators are using podcasting in their teaching as well, getting students sharing conversations about ideas. What are some of the ways podcasts are now used in a teaching setting? Because let's say a student essay of 2,000 to 3,000 words, you can't easily read that out on a podcast. And I've done this myself.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

As the school year gets underway across the nation, many schools and districts are launching new technology initiatives and programs designed to improve teaching and learning. One of the district’s top technology initiatives : Fifth and eighth grade students partnered on a peer-reviewed argument writing assigment.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Three years ago I was teaching a graduate computer science course with 20 students. When teaching many students at once, some ordinary things become near impossible. Instead, I decided to enhance my approach to problem solving by incorporating peer review—letting students participate in the feedback and assessment process.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

This article explores AI’s historical evolution, critically assesses its benefits and challenges for teaching, and provides evidence-based strategies for faculty to integrate AI effectively. A century later, AI is no longer fiction but a dynamic force in community college education, reshaping how faculty teach, and students learn.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

This article explores AI’s historical evolution, critically assesses its benefits and challenges for teaching, and provides evidence-based strategies for faculty to integrate AI effectively. A century later, AI is no longer fiction but a dynamic force in community college education, reshaping how faculty teach, and students learn.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 89

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Many institutions still rely on Turnitin, but the professionals who must check dozens of essays on a daily basis know that this expensive service can be way too slow. . That’s quite an advantage since copied materials often come from peer-reviewed articles. Low flexibility is another major disadvantage.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. This is no small lift when so many educators feel exhausted, frustrated and confused about the path forward in teaching and learning. We can empathize.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 13, 2019

If they’re short answer or essay — the preferred way to check understanding — grading takes a long time. Other times, teachers employ this method because not only the one being reviewed benefits but so too does the reviewer as they must know what the lesson is about to effectively review classmates.

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Feedback Peer Review Writing Critical Thinking 105

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Whether it’s a group of retirees who cluster in the back of your corner coffee shop or the so-called Ponzi schemes of MFA programs like the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, assessment comes in the form of peer feedback—marginalia and discussion. Assess the process When James Wilson teaches creative writing, he grades 50 percent on process.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

In addition to assessing students’ grades and essays, admissions officers have long looked to the SAT and ACT to help them decide who will make it in their campus settings, and beyond. But the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the sudden decision by many colleges to make submitting such scores optional. They also simply may not work.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Here’s her story: Last Fall, my El Camino Real High School colleagues and I set out to change the way we teach writing. We could also identify exemplar essays we pulled from the first Revision Assistant exercise that we used in self- and peer-review assignments. We decided to give it a try.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Assessment is a critical component of the teaching and learning process. Based on my classroom teaching experience, I believe that recognizing the importance of student feedback fosters active engagement and self-reflection in the student learning process. appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Assessment is a critical component of the teaching and learning process. Based on my classroom teaching experience, I believe that recognizing the importance of student feedback fosters active engagement and self-reflection in the student learning process. appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

When students share organic ideas and peer review projects, they build authentic knowledge that everyone takes ownership in, but the saying is easier than the doing. This should follow the well-accepted five-paragraph essay used in many elementary classrooms. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

The better question is, even in the era of AI, how can we best teach our students? As promising as this may sound, I want to add a caveat: In over ten years of teaching freshman English, I learned that the more I policed student work, the less energy I had to be a good teacher. Peer review. Analyze what it writes.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

The better question is, even in the era of AI, how can we best teach our students? As promising as this may sound, I want to add a caveat: In over ten years of teaching freshman English, I learned that the more I policed student work, the less energy I had to be a good teacher. Peer review. Analyze what it writes.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Among the top results: a slick animated video called “Problems in Public Education,” a rant arguing that all public education “kills creativity,” and a video essay titled “public ‘education’ has become indoctrination and distraction.” Negative View of Teaching? And that was just on the first page.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A new peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Public Humanities , aims to strengthen the connections between university-based humanities work and the wider world, creating a space for academics and practitioners to share what they do and how they do it. A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. and elsewhere.

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