Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

The teacher uses simple, concrete examples and visual aids to help students grasp the changes in properties that indicate a chemical reaction. Students engage in a guided practice where they observe a reaction and discuss the changes they see. Example: Writing Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.1

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

AI encourages cheating A common fear is that students will use AI to bypass learning. While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. For instance, students could compare human-written essays with AI-generated ones to discuss tone, bias, and effectiveness.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 322

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Whether text, video or something else entirely, each of these mediums encompasses a form of writing. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. engagement and passion.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

“I love teaching and helping kids grow,” she added, “but I hate that writing instruction takes up hours and hours of my life.” A 2016 study of 3rd to 8th grade educators found that only 55% of teachers said they enjoy teaching writing. 9% of writing assignments in grades six to eight include long form writing.

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Writing Teaching Education Feedback 154

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

However, students engaged in cheating well before tools like ChatGPT became household names. According to a survey , as many as 58 percent of high school students have plagiarized work, and 95 percent admitted to some form of cheating.

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Plagiarism Education Assignments Essay 322

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

It gives college applicants the benefits of enhanced feedback and collaboration with a team of experts including strategists, writing coaches and former admissions staff members from elite colleges such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, MIT and Stanford. Highlights of the platform include: ?

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Technology Coaching Essay Feedback 244

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Over the past decade, we’ve seen students engage in multiple ways productively (with one another, with the subject matter, with their peers worldwide). Additionally, multimedia projects offer educators alternative ways to see evidence of student thinking.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 337

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. My goal was to change the climate and culture in my classroom to help students feel more comfortable with trying, failing, and, most importantly, improving. Encourage student engagement. Focus on growth, not scores.

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Essay Failure Students Writing 183

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. To what end?

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 204

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

It could be a video, a photo essay, a 3D rendering, or even an interpretive dance performance. With PBL, “the kids do a significant portion of the heavy lifting–that’s how I look at it,” Provenzano said, noting that students should do at least 51 percent of the work. This is where PBL and maker education intersect.

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Curriculum Essay Failure Art 288

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Engage students in meaningful activities : Keep students engaged and motivated until the last day of school by planning meaningful end-of-year projects or events. Interactive projects : Implement projects that allow students to apply what they have learned in a real-world context.

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Achievement Schools Counselling Feedback 289

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In addition, many students are using AI to write coursework and essays, which has caused a lot of outrage. Proponents argue AI can make education more personalized, engaging, and effective while reducing costs and workload for teachers. This promotes better student engagement and accelerated learning.

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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 183

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

For example, to become better writers, readers, and critical thinkers, Quill.org offers low-income students an AI-powered literacy tutor that provides students real-time coaching and feedback on literacy activities that pair nonfiction reading with informational writing.

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Education Testing Feedback English 290

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The most-cited applications included providing feedback on student work, creating professional development materials, supporting writing and content generation, creating course content, and enhancing accessibility for students with special needs. Schools need to train educators and students on responsible AI usage.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 191

Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

To reduce learning barriers in the classroom, teachers need to plan for different methods of student engagement and make materials accessible to all students. Riley Mulcahy, founder of the RILEY Project , provides a unique perspective as a former student and current administrative assistant at Compass High School.

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Universal Design Disabilities Mobile Devices Students 211

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

The assignments he cared to turn in demonstrated his clear lack of interest in the class subject matter as well as a real gap in his writing ability. I wanted to get him interested in my class and to support him in applying the strength of his verbal voice to his writing.

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Essay Writing Assignments Learning Styles 104

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

It can also assist teachers with tasks such as planning lessons, tailoring instruction, creating texts and images, and providing recommendations on what students could work on next. Khanmigo was launched last year in grades 5-8 and used in core content areas, which are typically math, reading, writing, and science, according to the district.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 262

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The ways and means of learning in the classroom should mirror the culture and community of the students in it. The skills I want my students to leave the classroom with are not necessarily how to identify the eight parts of speech, analyze Shakespeare, or write a seven-paragraph argumentative essay.

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Skills Teaching Students Essay 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

With GoGuardian in place, teachers had insight into how engaged students were and if they were understanding the lesson. Teachers began using GoGuardian to boost student engagement, pushing out documents or links to save class time. That lowered the fear factor and allowed them to go ahead and start using technology.

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Teachers Students Special Education History 197

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

As part of this program at Morris County Vocational School, in New Jersey, where I teach, students engage in research about key issues at our school and learn how to plan effective professional development to support the staff. As I became more comfortable, I began designing my own projects.

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High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 210

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2023

Young Software that “watches” students as they take exams from home is a contested area of edtech, one that pits colleges’ interest in preventing cheating against students’ privacy. As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’ Tapia In a moving personal essay, Ruby C.

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Education Exams Instructors Essay 169

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 195

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So, she may have her students type in Google Docs with their tablets instead of writing by hand, to offer them the instant feedback of the platform’s interactive built-in spelling and grammar checker. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 314

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

“Innovations that commoditize some elements of teacher expertise also supply the tools to raise the effectiveness of both non-experts and expert teachers to new heights and to adapt to the new priorities of a 21st-century workforce and education system,” writes Arnett.

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Teachers Teaching Assistants Intelligence Math 154

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

The ACT has seen the writing on the wall—and it doesn’t look good. In Pitzer’s case those values include social responsibility, intercultural understanding, interdisciplinary learning, student engagement and environmental sustainability.) Its reasoning?

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Grades Testing Interdisciplinary STEM 160

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

They enable students to brainstorm ideas, create mind maps, and engage in collaborative writing. For instance, in a literature class, students can use a virtual whiteboard to collectively analyze a text, identify themes, and organize their interpretations.

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Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

They enable students to brainstorm ideas, create mind maps, and engage in collaborative writing. For instance, in a literature class, students can use a virtual whiteboard to collectively analyze a text, identify themes, and organize their interpretations.

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Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Instructors who use a Lightboard to create instruction for asynchronous online learning can replicate what they would do in a traditional classroom when they draw or write on a whiteboard.

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Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

Using these tools, schools can filter web content; monitor students’ search engine queries and browsing history; view students’ emails, messages and social media content; and/or view their screens in real-time. Parents have become increasingly wary of this practice.

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Schools Counselling Students Internet 160

Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

Lets view the situation from the perspective of a student. They have after all been in school for the last 13 years and they have become really good at taking quizzes and exams and writing essays with thesis statements. My pre- and post-quiz data for the course reveals this.

Assignments 107

Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 107

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Instructors who use a Lightboard to create instruction for asynchronous online learning can replicate what they would do in a traditional classroom when they draw or write on a whiteboard.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

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.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 90

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While faculty members might feel good when students score well in their examinations and essays, there is little long-term fruit. We must seek deep learning in students, and deep learning will only take place if the students themselves consider the material to have significance. Konrad, A., & Boyle, M. Barkley, E.

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Assignments Motivation Science Study 131

Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

Lets view the situation from the perspective of a student. They have after all been in school for the last 13 years and they have become really good at taking quizzes and exams and writing essays with thesis statements. My pre- and post-quiz data for the course reveals this.

Assignments 95

Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 95

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.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 84

Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

East Campus in Muscatine, Iowa takes a different approach, one that is paying enormous dividends in terms of student engagement, academic success, and high school completion. And so on… The work that East Campus students do isn’t sitting at a desk regurgitating facts from a textbook.

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Students Essay Textbooks Lecturing 76

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Below is just a small sample of the range of activities and conversations they engaged in, as described by Andrew Rikard , an undergraduate at Davidson College and the facilitator of the inaugural cohort: “We built our own syllabus, decided what topics interested us and recruited experts to talk to us about those topics. Personal blog).

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Syllabus Students Essay Language 100