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DECEMBER 20, 2023

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Peer Review Essay Skills Critical Thinking 273

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JUNE 10, 2025

For instance, there’s a corner of TikTok reserved for tech influencers who rack up thousands of views and likes teaching students how to most effectively use AI programs to generate their essays, including step-by-step instructions on bypassing AI detectors. It’s not especially high-tech or even particularly ingenious.

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Assignments English Teachers Essay 198

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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Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 158

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Instead, I decided to enhance my approach to problem solving by incorporating peer review—letting students participate in the feedback and assessment process. I then had each review work by three other students according to a feedback rubric I created; I moderated the process throughout. Advice for effective peer review.

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Feedback Peer Review Critical Thinking Assignments 143

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JULY 25, 2023

Because let's say a student essay of 2,000 to 3,000 words, you can't easily read that out on a podcast. I think after a certain amount of time, many students learn how to sort of quickly write an essay the day before the deadline. Some people just switch out a written assignment for an audio assignment. And I've done this myself.

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Teaching Peer Review Essay Knowledge 148

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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. The best alternative is at your disposal.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

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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. Can our students, teachers and caregivers—especially those experiencing it for the first time—navigate web browsers and technology? Let’s be frank.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

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AUGUST 22, 2018

It’s a problem thesis that has convinced others to write (a check, that is), including Omidyar Technology Ventures, which is leading a $3.2 For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative). based company.

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 112

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. Use technology? Where did you feel tense?

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 111

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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. The pitch: Use deeper technology to make admissions more deeply human. “I They also simply may not work. Yet Zwick, author of the book “Who Gets In?

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Fairness Counselling Testing Disabilities 217

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. Even with the advances technology offers in responding directly to students, it can be too time-consuming for large classes. Peer feedback is about supporting and learning, not criticizing.

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Feedback Peer Review Writing Critical Thinking 96

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APRIL 17, 2017

By the time we were finished with a pilot test, we discovered that a technology tool helped us and our students in some unexpected ways. 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 75

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For example, instead of traditional essays, instructors might assign reflective portfolios, oral presentations, or collaborative projects that require students to engage deeply with the material and demonstrate their understanding in ways that go beyond what AI can produce. Educational Technology Research and Development, 51 (4), 89102.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For example, instead of traditional essays, instructors might assign reflective portfolios, oral presentations, or collaborative projects that require students to engage deeply with the material and demonstrate their understanding in ways that go beyond what AI can produce. Educational Technology Research and Development, 51 (4), 89102.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 87

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Peer review in the classroom: Student perceptions, peer feedback quality and the role of assessment. Program-based review and assessment: Tools and techniques for program improvement. Linways Technologies. Carless, D., & Winstone, N. London, UK: Routledge. Gaynor, J. 8: 1079–94 McConlogue, Teresa (2020).

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Peer review in the classroom: Student perceptions, peer feedback quality and the role of assessment. Program-based review and assessment: Tools and techniques for program improvement. Linways Technologies. Carless, D., & Winstone, N. London, UK: Routledge. Gaynor, J. 8: 1079–94 McConlogue, Teresa (2020).

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

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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 works best for vocabulary, word study, technology problems, the day’s activity, and that sort. Does it sound right? If it does, go for it!

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Students Writing Peer Review Essay 81

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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.” And that was just on the first page.

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Peer Review Education Essay Attention 127

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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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Essay Peer Review Art History 218