eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2025

Virtual teaching roles appeal to a broader range of candidates, including those in rural areas and professionals seeking a better work-life balance. These programs also allow districts to tap into talent pools beyond their geographic boundaries, increasing the diversity and quality of applicants.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2025

However, educators still need to teach students the ability to be critical consumers of information, whether produced by humans or generated by AI tools. That makes teaching students to trace information to original sources even more essential. Todays students rarely line up at the reference desk. The stakes are higher.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

However, in an increasingly complex and interconnected world, there is a growing need to enhance this traditional model with innovative teaching methods (Barker, 2000). Systems thinking helps students understand the broader purpose of their education and how different disciplines interconnect.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. However, it also raises critical ethical, operational, and strategic challenges. The Leadership Imperative: Building Trust and Driving Adoption AI initiatives cannot succeed without strong leadership.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2025

For many counselors, the prevalence of children using social media to self-diagnose suggests a larger problem related to lasting social and emotional impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, unregulated virtual spaces and the importance of teaching media literacy skills. We say, Okay, it looks like youre upset. Lets take a deep breath.

Ethics 160

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Without this guidance, AI can be confusing and complex, the researchers say, and can prevent both adolescents and adults from using the technology ethically and productively. Many teens in the survey also had a “strong moral compass,” Hayes said, and were confronting the ethical dilemmas that come with using AI, especially in the classroom.

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Essay Ethics Fairness Assignments 167

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Now, educators are trying to navigate the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the field. Brain-based learning is an educational framework that informs teaching methods by leveraging scientific knowledge about how the brain learns and develops. References: Caine, R. McClintic, C., & Klimek, K. S., & Suyanto, S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

They are not intended to replace human educators, just complement traditional teaching. Many educators and administrators feel unprepared to manage these legal and ethical challenges effectively. Managing these issues proactively safeguards schools and promotes the ethical use of AI.

Disabilities 139

Disabilities Ethics Schools Plagiarism 139

Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

We can teach students to critically analyze AI-assisted work and promote authentic learning as we do. Take class time or record a video for your online class to teach your students what you expect them to do with AI for each assignment, what not to do, and what you’ll be looking for in their finished product. Furze, Leon.

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Critical Thinking Assignments Academic Integrity Intelligence 127

Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

AI prompting encourages critical thinking by fostering problem-solving, analysis, and synthesis while promoting ethical reasoning (Mollick and Mollick, 2023). Moreover, effective prompting can highlight ethical concerns, such as AI bias and misinformation, which promotes digital literacy (Kasneci et al. Cotton, Debby R.,

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Critical Thinking Skills Ethics Academic Integrity 81

Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Since the public release of ChatGPT in December 2022, educators have faced the challenge of effectively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their teaching. This allows educators to gain insights from students interactions with these technologies, fostering a deeper understanding of their applications and promoting ethical use.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. However, it also raises critical ethical, operational, and strategic challenges. The Leadership Imperative: Building Trust and Driving Adoption AI initiatives cannot succeed without strong leadership.

Ethics 74

Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 74

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam is the co-founder of the Vietnam Innovative Educators Foundation (VIEF), a professional network of over 157,000 educators committed to advancing technology-enhanced and student-centered teaching practices nationwide. This mindset ensures that tools never overshadow the human core of teaching and learning.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

AI prompting encourages critical thinking by fostering problem-solving, analysis, and synthesis while promoting ethical reasoning (Mollick and Mollick, 2023). Moreover, effective prompting can highlight ethical concerns, such as AI bias and misinformation, which promotes digital literacy (Kasneci et al. Cotton, Debby R.,

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Critical Thinking Skills Ethics Academic Integrity 69

k12 Digest

JUNE 30, 2025

Ethical Intelligence > Artificial Intelligence However, the rise of smart classrooms must be matched with ethical intelligence —a term I use to define AI’s role in diplomacy. Let us build classrooms that not only teach but transform. Just as no two cultures are the same, no two leaders should be trained the same.

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Intelligence Ethics Culture Education 180

k12 Digest

JUNE 30, 2025

Ethical Intelligence > Artificial Intelligence However, the rise of smart classrooms must be matched with ethical intelligence —a term I use to define AI’s role in diplomacy. Let us build classrooms that not only teach but transform. Just as no two cultures are the same, no two leaders should be trained the same.

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Intelligence Ethics Culture Education 180

Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

The key is to teach your students ways to improve their thinking and using the Paul and Elder model can be an effective tool. Teaching students to analyze critically the information generated from AI chatbots will become necessary for a progressing society. Ultimately, our students look up to us and use our guidance in their learning.

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Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 98

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

As AI automates many of the mechanical aspects of programming, the value of CS education is shifting, from writing perfect code to shaping systems, telling stories through logic and designing ethical, human-centered solutions. According to Amy Patterson, Chief Program Officer at Urban Arts, “We’re not just teaching video games.

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Ethics Science Game-Based Learning Motivation 152

Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

We can teach students to critically analyze AI-assisted work and promote authentic learning as we do. Take class time or record a video for your online class to teach your students what you expect them to do with AI for each assignment, what not to do, and what you’ll be looking for in their finished product. Furze, Leon.

Critical Thinking 98

Critical Thinking Assignments Academic Integrity Intelligence 98

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

What if grade school were designed to teach students how to make decisions and know themselves deeply as much as it taught them math and literacy? Our teachers explicitly teach students how to make time- and goal-management decisions during daily morning meetings. But it didn’t have to be this way.

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Schools Failure Ethics Textbooks 147

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Now, educators are trying to navigate the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the field. Brain-based learning is an educational framework that informs teaching methods by leveraging scientific knowledge about how the brain learns and develops. References: Caine, R. McClintic, C., & Klimek, K. S., & Suyanto, S.

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Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

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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Math Beliefs Culture Ethics 176

Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

The key is to teach your students ways to improve their thinking and using the Paul and Elder model can be an effective tool. Teaching students to analyze critically the information generated from AI chatbots will become necessary for a progressing society. Ultimately, our students look up to us and use our guidance in their learning.

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Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 122

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., He said that students have had access to the information we teach prior to AI. We should embrace this role as we teach in the age of AI. Schoeder, 2024).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 29, 2025

He has been teaching in higher education in some capacity since 2010.Dr. Additionally, he received training from the University of South Florida in Inclusive and Ethical Leadership. Lucia did to reduce 30-day readmission rates was published nationally. References Clark, C. Olender, L., Cardoni, C., & Kenski, D.

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Education Culture Counselling Ethics 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

It’s not that the ideas themselves aren’t important—it’s that we’ve turned teaching into a conveyor belt of information. What I Do Now (and What I Don’t) Let me make it clear—I still teach frameworks. One of my BBAs said it best: “You didn’t just teach me models. Slide decks. Learning objectives. Case summaries.

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Syllabus Ethics Art Questions 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 6, 2025

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Activities History Education Ethics 100

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

It’s not that the ideas themselves aren’t important—it’s that we’ve turned teaching into a conveyor belt of information. What I Do Now (and What I Don’t) Let me make it clear—I still teach frameworks. One of my BBAs said it best: “You didn’t just teach me models. Slide decks. Learning objectives. Case summaries.

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Syllabus Ethics Art Questions 85

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 8, 2025

In our Day 2 workshop, we will explore a multitude of instructional, productivity, and ethical considerations related to AI and teaching, and we will connect everything back to what we did in Day 1.

Ethics 52

Ethics Teachers Plagiarism Critical Thinking 52

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

After years of teaching, I noticed how often students carried academic, emotional, and personal burdens without sharing them. From Curiosity to Campuswide Inquiry The project began in two large general education courses I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: FSHN 101: The Science of Food and FSHN 120: Contemporary Nutrition.

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Disabilities Course Design Students Lecturing 53

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

Zachery-Ross: Ypsilanti Community High School has been selected as the first HP AI Spotlight School , an initiative focused on powerful teaching and learning with technology, especially artificial intelligence. While there was initial apprehension, the focus on ethical use and integrity has been reassuring and beneficial.

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Ethics Intelligence Critical Thinking Feedback 99

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2025

A lot has changed since then so it’s time for an update: When I teach professional development classes, by far the topic that surprises attendees the most is the legal use of online images. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. In this monthly column, I share the most popular post from the past month.

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Teachers Art Fairness Failure 109

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Just as we teach the alphabet, structure, vocabulary and syntax, we must teach the language of computers. Computer science curricula should be turnkey, ready for any educator to pick up and teach. To be intellectually ethical, computer science education should equip students with comprehensive knowledge about AI.

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Science Education Ethics Students 109

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

As teaching and learning increasingly shifted online throughout the early 2000s and 2010s, Turnitin became more embedded in classes. But she considers a lot of AI use to be in an ethical gray area, including when students write a first draft themselves and then polish it with an AI tool. This year, the college paid almost $47,000.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Earlier in my teaching career, my first-day-of-class deck included a slide about my professional and personal history to build trust and transparency. I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college.

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

Funding for “Grow Your Own” initiatives, emergency credentialing programs, and university-district partnerships has been reduced in several states, undermining efforts to build sustainable local pathways into teaching ( Brookings ). Co-teaching models, scaffolded instruction, and sheltered content strategies help meet this bar.

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Special Education English Languages Language 94

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Earlier in my teaching career, my first-day-of-class deck included a slide about my professional and personal history to build trust and transparency. I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college.

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Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 70