eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Switching seamlessly between languages like many bilingual learners do AI-powered translation tools are improving, but they dont match the way multilingual individuals naturally switch between languages in real life. Bilingual students often engage in code-switching, blending languages based on context, audience, and emotion.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Now, educators are trying to navigate the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the field. The impact of technology on the human brain is still being studied, but there is a body of research which is decades old and has increased its capacity to inform education with advances in medical imaging technology.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Key points: Creating a culture where all students see themselves as capable math thinkers starts with leaders Key questions that unleash powerful PLCs Ethical PD: Doing right by the teachers who do right by the world For more news on teachers PD, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub One of my first vivid memories of math is of timed tests.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Thanks to a $30 million gift from an alumnus, the small, selective college in Maine is establishing the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence , which aims to integrate machine learning, natural language processing and big data into instruction and research across the college. “We

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is one way teachers can use AI tools to curate an entire class’s flow, its study materials, and practice tests without the aid of an army of teaching assistants. Teachers can use the Magic Design tool to effortlessly create presentations using just natural language prompts.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Perhaps one of the most famous studies to come to this conclusion was the Tennessee Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) project in the 1980s. In the kindergarten years alone, the study found a “definite advantage for small classes in achievement.”. More positivity reported about participating in learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For English Language Learners (ELLs), this scenario is even more daunting due to limited vocabulary or fear of making mistakes. In fact, studies show that a lack of confidence and linguistic resources often prevents ELLs from fully engaging in creative writing, despite their rich cultural and personal experiences.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Research has found multiple benefits of integrating science and math instruction , as well as science and English language arts instruction , such as increasing student understanding, strengthening critical-thinking skills, and helping students acquire STEM skills they need for postsecondary success.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

“It’s so important that we have people who are thinking about the ethical implications of the technology we’re building today.” These days, programming languages are accessible enough for pretty much anybody willing to do the work,” said Roger Kay, a longtime technology industry analyst.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

This potential hinges on the responsible and ethical use of AI, taught through a framework that addresses critical concerns such as bias, misinformation, and the preparation of students for a world transformed by AI. This partnership will enable teachers across Canada to offer ethical, quality AI training to their students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Researchers like Warschauer are studying whether and how conversational agent technology—the kind that powers smart speakers such as Alexa and Siri—can enhance the learning benefits young kids receive from hearing stories read aloud and from watching videos. Language is an important vehicle to help children understand and learn.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued. She first got involved as a student at Oxnard College by participating in research ethics training. She signed up. “Me

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

When Marc Watkins heads back into the classroom this fall to teach a digital media studies course, he plans to make clear to students how he’s now using AI behind the scenes in preparing for classes. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2023

It enhances cognitive abilities, emotional intelligence, moral and ethical development, identity formation, communication skills, social awareness, and creativity. Poetry uses language and rhythm to express feelings and emotions. Religious literature explores religious issues, ethics, and morality.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For English Language Arts (ELA) teachers, AI-powered writing tools help to provide immediate feedback, guiding students through the writing process and fostering a more personalized approach to learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It’s not science fiction anymore; right now, in every single field of study, AI is being used. For example, in our Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom guides , we have a project that’s specifically for foreign language teachers. Or, “What does it mean to recognize emotions or to understand the context of language?”

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Alongside colleagues from universities across the country, our team systematically analyzed over 400 studies from the last 13 years, representing the experiences of over half a million K-12 students from more than 50 countries. Among more than 400 studies, none reported data on student sexual orientation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

From cloning to social media, it is more essential to understand the ethical implications of an idea and how it will impact people than it is to build well-designed code. Virtue is conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles. In first grade, students recently studied and wrote poetry—a very classical activity.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. In the absence of ethics and values to drive the deployment of AI , its arrival in schools is a risk.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. This vision of Holocaust education as an ethical awakening and an inoculation against hate is powerful, but top-down mandates also introduce significant challenges for educators.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

The surveys included over 20 demographic questionscovering areas like housing, food security, disability status, and employmentfollowed by 1540 experience-based questions exploring academic confidence, mental health, study habits, and perceptions of inclusion. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There is a precedent for using such terms as a means to distinguish the backgrounds of language users, often as a means to differentiate between native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS) of a language. 2020) compared language usage in NS and NNS of English among engineering lecturers. Kuswoyo et al.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. Huang et al. 2023, 396). Transcriptions ease and enable learning for many students with disabilities.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The higher ed award honored Timothy Renick, Senior Vice President for Student Success and Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University. With advances in educational data mining, we can infer learners’ emotions from their natural language interaction with systems, their facial expressions, even their body posture.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Meanwhile, researchers who study early childhood education say that these tools can either empower classroom teachers — or increase their workplace stress. That means thinking hard about the best ways and places to use new tools and the ethical implications of any choices. Technology is a double-edged sword,” Chen says.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While some educators rightfully voice concerns over the ethical aspects of such a tool, this article will draw on my own experiences using ChatGPT 4.0 Large language models 1 Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are complex algorithms developed through a type of machine learning called deep learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

This would facilitate more effective personalized guidance by the instructor and better awareness on the part of the student as to where they need to put additional focus in their study. One of the key challenges in developing the tool was the mapping of quiz and homework questions to the most relevant learning topic.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Strategy 1: Learn more about Disability Studies in Education (DSE). Grounded in the theory of Disability Studies, Disability Studies in Education (DSE) frames disability as a valuable form of diversity rather than a deficit (Collins & Ferri, 2016). Strategy 2: Consider your language. Brown, 2011, para. by doing this!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2019

What students and alumni were asking us was, ‘Is there a way for them to gain the technical vertical skills and the language and the networks—all the sort of fluency of being in tech?’” Students will use the works as a jumping-off point to discuss the ethics of the tech industry and the social impacts of digital technology.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Hutson (2024) identifies the challenges of AI in education as the blurred boundaries between human and AI-generated content, the inadequacy of traditional plagiarism definitions, and the need to balance the ethical integration of AI with the preservation of critical thinking, originality, and intellectual property standards.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There is a precedent for using such terms as a means to distinguish the backgrounds of language users, often as a means to differentiate between native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS) of a language. 2020) compared language usage in NS and NNS of English among engineering lecturers. Kuswoyo et al.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Click the link for an example of Abraham Lincoln to align with study of the American Civil War or this one of the American Revolution. It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Click to view slideshow.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Click the link for an example of Abraham Lincoln to align with study of the American Civil War. It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. Thinking Games.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

The ever-changing conditions require responsible decision making, the ability to make constructive and respectful choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on consideration of ethical standards, safety concerns, social norms, the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions and the well-being of self and others.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While some educators rightfully voice concerns over the ethical aspects of such a tool, this article will draw on my own experiences using ChatGPT 4.0 Large language models 1 Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are complex algorithms developed through a type of machine learning called deep learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

citizenship/ethics/etiquette. language usage. how to understand domain-specific language associated with technology, i.e., ‘cloud’. Depending upon the tool selected, learning will also link to a wide variety of academic topics, such as writing, social studies, and math. analytical thinking. critical thinking. persuasion.

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