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AUGUST 24, 2023

Teaching Critical Thinking Through Essay Examples: Unlocking Minds We’re exploring a fun classroom adventure where teachers teach us to think carefully and write good essays using examples. We’ll see how these great teachers turn simple essays into smart thinking tools. Why Essays? It’s a way of life.

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Critical Thinking Essay Teaching Exams 148

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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

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 229

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Writing an essay paper like a pro needs specific critical skills. Keep reading to enhance your ability to curate a unique essay paper. We are talking about essay writing, which you find a daunting task. Writing an essay is mostly difficult for students as they need to rely on their research and writing abilities.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2017

If students are working 0n an essay, I dedicate one station each day to providing real-time feedback as they write. Before we end our conversation, I turn to them and ask, “Do you have any questions?” Then on the second argumentative essay, I may focus on 1) quality of their evidence and 2) analysis.

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Grades Blended Learning Essay Feedback 420

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The critical question is, “ What is the right type of co-learning ?” Individual essays, science fair partner projects, group programming assignments, digital and physical art pieces–every single assignment from now on has a silent partner. The essay was primarily or entirely structured and written by ChatGPT.

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Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 337

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

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Technology presents a unique opportunity to allows students access to your feedback in effective, efficient ways, following several steps. When Google Form responses get collected in a Google Sheet, they can be challenging to read if the answers are long (essays, open-ended questions, etc.). Surveying students or parents.

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Feedback Technology Quizzes Essay 216

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

While 89 percent of teachers reported in a recent survey that they believe generative AI will have an impact on teaching, recent reporting in the Wall Street Journal and The74 have rightly identified some of AI’s limitations in education, questioning the technology’s ability to serve as, for example, an effective tutor.

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Teaching Essay Teaching Methods Intelligence 325

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

OCTOBER 28, 2024

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. These questions are particularly significant for students of color, who consistently encounter more systemic barriers than their white peers ( Frausto et al.,

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Motivation Essay Learning Beliefs 332

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. Burns opening quote is a reminder that teaching is purpose-driven work and that student growth and development depend on supporting teachers and school leaders.

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Education Essay Culture Math 122

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Many teachers already are rethinking assessments and assignments to shift the question from how students will use AI to cheat, to how students can learn to use AI responsibly. In each of these cases, teachers evolved, adopting new strategies and tools to keep students learning. As AI matures, educators will need to do the same.

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Plagiarism Education Assignments Essay 331

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free.

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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Below is an image of teacher responses to the following questions: What are the benefits and challenges of the whole group, teacher-led model from your perspective? writing an essay, completing a multimedia project, tackling a performance task). Below are the benefits and challenges of teaching in a whole group lesson.

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Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning Motivation 544

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 300

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re swimming in a world of technologies that have huge implications for the future of schooling. Yet even with these technologies flooding into schools and classrooms, computers won’t be replacing teachers any time soon, and that’s why now, more than ever, teachers should be given the critical support they’re asking for in the classroom.

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Essay Feedback Intelligence Coaching 274

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2015

Through the contest, which began on June 10, schools can submit an original essay for a chance to win. Having protective solutions for a school’s technology is crucial, especially in K-12 environments,” Trident Vice President of Marketing Vickie Achee said. One classroom mishap can cost a school hundreds, even thousands, of dollars.

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Essay Schools Questions Accessibility 218

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 268

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

But even with all this excitement, there are still many questions to answer. One key question is, “How do school and district leaders ensure academic integrity as new technologies continue to emerge, like generative artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, and more?”

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Plagiarism 242

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. 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.

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Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 339

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself). See our ChatGPT Prompting Guide for Life Design + Career Education.

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 339

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing. They scored ChatGPT’s work using the same College Board rubric their essays were evaluated against.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 215

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s just more complex and time consuming, he says, to gauge how much a student has learned about, say, how to weigh two competing views of a historical event in an essay assignment. It might seem counterintuitive that the same technology threatening to hinder student learning might be used to boost it. It's complex.”

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Essay Social Studies Education Critical Thinking 199

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

AI can help students write stronger essays, solve tricky math problems, and even manage their stress levels, all while giving TAs more time to focus on what matters most–building meaningful connections with students.

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Teaching Assistants Teaching Quizzes Intelligence 301

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

In my work as a digital learning specialist, I’m charged with helping teachers try new classroom strategies and learn to use the technology tools that make those strategies possible. Improving teaching and learning practices with technology is not about replacing traditional teaching.

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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A similar question was asked by McKinsey three years ago , right before the worldwide pandemic caused the lowest reading and math scores in 30 years. New AI technologies can be used directly by publishers to auto-convert textbooks into engaging video lessons. When answering basic questions, AI can read a student’s answers.

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Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 278

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 Language Languages 163

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Texas found itself in need of a way to score exponentially more written responses on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, after a new law mandated that at least 25 percent of questions be open-ended — rather than multiple choice — starting in the 2022-23 school year. Using technology to score essays is nothing new.

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Fairness Testing Grades Essay 189

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation. That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay. That helped me finish that part of the essay. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 16(1).

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Essay Ethics Feedback Language 174

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2017

They then create a persuasive video essay as well as a watercolor painting showing why their chosen nominee best displays the qualities of peace. Teaching Basic Technological Skills. We use many of the headings to craft our graphic organizer questions so that students are able to navigate the information related to the question.

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Essay Students History Grades 240

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 175

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s a free AI chatbot that can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. A headline in the Atlantic magazine put it bluntly: “Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay?” By now you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT.

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Teaching Essay Questions Education 217

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2023

With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. The use of generative AI — the type of AI that can create original content, like essays or reports, based on its training data — only intensifies this feeling.

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Technology Education Intelligence Communication 148

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me. in the preamble of the U.S.

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 199

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JULY 30, 2024

These may include standardized test scores (SAT or ACT), high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and personal essays. Write a Compelling Personal Essay Your personal essay is an opportunity to showcase your personality, experiences, and aspirations. A well-crafted essay can set you apart from other applicants.

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High School High School Essay Fairness 159