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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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2024

AI in education carries with it ethical and philosophical implications, too, including how to handle transparency and accountability, along with how to address the role of human teachers and balancing technology with human values. And technologists should focus on ethical AI and ensure collaboration with educators. “Ai

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The traditional methods of testing and evaluation must evolve to accommodate the capabilities of AI. Demonstrating learning needs to move from testing memorization to showcasing transferable skills. Demonstrating learning in the AI era The advent of Gen AI in education is reshaping the way we assess and demonstrate learning.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. Below is a taxonomy of generative AI for educators to consider.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

One in six employers is hesitant to hire young adults due to their lack of a strong work ethic and practical job skills, even as they struggle to fill critical labor gaps. It’s one thing to score well on a test; it’s another to see a project you worked on come to fruition and make a real impact.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Felix Lloyd, CEO of Beanstack, shares, Our engineers designed and trained Benny with extensive educator input and real-world testing to ensure Book Talks are meaningful, age-appropriate, and safe. Before beginning any work with AI, we established ethical guidelines to ensure that our use is human-centric and transparent.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some believe it will cripple the education system and replace human workers ; others denounce ChatGPT as a free essay-writing and test-taking tool that makes it laughably easy to cheat on assignments, while the validity of responses generated by ChatGPT has also been called into question. What is ChatGPT?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

percent of students reported having a test, quiz, or exam within their first week of school. percent), studying for tests (48.8 Navigating the ethics of AI in education The use of these AI-powered tools isn’t without controversy in some schools. In a survey conducted on Brainly.com on August 21, 2024, 60.5 Alarmingly, 72.6

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Moreover, it facilitates adaptive assessments, moving beyond traditional testing to evaluate critical thinking skills. Adaptive assessments, powered by AI algorithms, will provide a more nuanced understanding of students’ capabilities beyond conventional testing. How will AI improve the role of education?

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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. A disclaimer for all educators: During my testing, ChatGPT, Claude, Le Chat, and other AI tools would routinely generate rudimentary questions in response to my prompts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Encouraging the use of AI to support tutoring efforts, act as a creative aid, and assist research and planning will be crucial in helping students learn to utilize the technology in a way that is both productive and ethical.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Key points: Balancing innovation with ethical considerations is crucial to harness the full potential of AI for the betterment of education Learn about the impact of artificial intelligence in education Discover more about why AI in education is essential for learning The integration of AI in education brings both benefits and risks.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

What should teachers be expected to know about student data privacy and ethics? Was that information included in codes of education ethics? The curriculum is based on their report examining how much data privacy and ethics preparation teachers receive while in college. What are ethical and responsible uses of data?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Encouraging the use of AI to support tutoring efforts, act as a creative aid, and assist research and planning will be crucial in helping students learn to utilize the technology in a way that is both productive and ethical.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Many educators recognize that standardized tests don’t measure everything—and that some of the most critical types of growth can’t be measured by a numerical score. Seven years ago, during my first year of teaching, all of my eleventh graders failed the Georgia State End of Course Test in American Literature. Something didn’t add up.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The course is so new it hasn’t even entered beta testing yet (it will this spring), but it’s set to include modules on common vulnerabilities, phishing attacks and cryptography, all of which challenge students to get hands-on as they complete controlled experiments in each of these areas.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This approach not only enhances engagement but also aligns with ethical considerations in education. When students can touch things and interact, as opposed to watching a teacher write notes on a chalkboard and copying it into their notebooks, test scores improve. Why is engagement important?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

There is a mismatch in female students who score highly on science and technology aptitude tests and those same students’ interest in STEM career paths. The persisting gender gap has leached into the motivations female students have to enter STEM. When developing curricula, educators should keep diversity and inclusion top of mind.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2023

SAN DIEGO (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Internet Safety Labs , a non-profit organization dedicated to independent software product safety testing, today announced a big leap forward to help ensure mobile app safety for K-12 students, families and educators with the introduction of the App Microscope.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Here are some quotes from Michael Bloomberg about testing students , with my annotations in italics… “Many companies (including mine) use tests in hiring.” The hiring ’tests’ for your financial software, data, and media company are multiple choice tests of factual recall and procedural regurgitation? Your thoughts?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Educators have relied on data to make informed decisions for as long as it’s been available (the foundations of standardized testing got its start in the 19th century ). For much of that time, the main worry was whether or not that data was being accurately interpreted.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2023

8), and moral character traits such as “honesty, kindness, integrity, [and] ethics” (p. Parents want their children to have learning opportunities across a variety of modalities, and they want learning to be assessed through demonstration of mastery as opposed to traditional assessments like standardized tests.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

According to National Assessment of Educational Progress test results, roughly two decades of academic progress has been lost during the pandemic. Drawing on scientific knowledge, learners brainstorm designs, and then build, test, and analyze them iteratively to generate original solutions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Despite its benefits, AI can also bring ethical challenges to education. They should also rigorously test their programs to identify potential bias and then continually monitor them. As students see their proficiency improving in each skill, their confidence grows and they become motivated by their results. Is the AI unbiased?

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Now, educators are trying to navigate the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the field. Technology has permeated every facet of our lives, making many tasks easier, and even doing some of our work for us. Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Listening to a lecture, writing notes, filling out worksheets, and taking tests will almost surely not be enough. The AI Revolution: Google’s Developers on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (60 Minutes) AI in the K-12 Classroom (AVID Open Access) Artificial Intelligence (U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Despite its benefits, AI can also bring ethical challenges to education. They should also rigorously test their programs to identify potential bias and then continually monitor them. As students see their proficiency improving in each skill, their confidence grows and they become motivated by their results. Is the AI unbiased?

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

In my second year, in an effort to get technology into the hands of the students, foster authentic inquiry, and break the “test-prep” mentality which has come to dominate many a school landscape, I launched Inquiry Fair. Tools to Support Inquiry-Driven Learning. It gives you goosebumps, doesn’t it?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

For instance, consider a scenario where a district uses standardized test scores to evaluate teacher performance. If the data is skewed by socioeconomic factors or if the test itself is biased against certain groups, it could lead to unfair evaluations.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The role of vendors when it comes to ethics and transparency in educational technology. Personalized or Individualized Learning? I think that theres some definite positives, but I just want to make sure we dont lose track of that data privacy piece that protects our kids, Ryan Cox (Osseo Area Schools District 279, Minnesota).

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Bier and others involved in the project say that they are testing the approach in a variety of educational settings, including public and private K-12 schools, community colleges and four-year colleges. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) What’s new in your approach?

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2024

However, assessments, particularly quizzes, tests, and papers, need to be developed to focus on the higher levels of Bloom. This is not to say students should not be asked to perform tasks that align with Costa’s Gathering Level of Questioning, nor work at the knowledge and understanding levels of Bloom.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2025

Training lags behind uptake Despite increasingly embracing AI, only 31 percent of teachers claim to have received training or substantial guidance from their school, with many respondents hoping to receive instruction on how to deploy the technology effectively and ethically.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

And whatever career they pursue, “they’re going to be under stress and pressure a lot and we want them to make ethical decisions. For example, Bertram Gallant asked: How much value is there in a multiple-choice test that emphasizes memorization?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

They also were required to pass a test on national and state civil rights laws and professional ethics, as well as a rigorous state test required for the grade-level and subject-matter area. “I had to study for it,” Durfey said of the science test. “It was like going back to school again.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. In that model, colleges are typically charged on a per-test basis.

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