Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. One time, I planned a novel study around a book my students selected, but I was forced by an administrator to trade it in for standardized test prep. Once I got to college, however, my A-student record failed me.

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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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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

However, it also raises critical ethical, operational, and strategic challenges. This strategy encompasses identifying core values, assessing stakeholder needs, integrating ethical considerations, and defining leadership’s role in championing AI initiatives.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Purpose and System/Problem Boundary Identification Purpose: In liberal arts, the purpose is to develop well-rounded individuals with critical thinking, problem-solving, and ethical reasoning skills. Experiment Design for Validity : Designing experiments or studies to test hypotheses and validate theories is a key skill.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Through our “Kindness Everyday” initiative, teachers build routines that promote gratitude, emotional regulation, and peer empathy, often starting the day with check-ins or story-based discussions about real-life ethical dilemmas. Collaboration is key in today’s educational landscape.

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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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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Purpose and System/Problem Boundary Identification Purpose: In liberal arts, the purpose is to develop well-rounded individuals with critical thinking, problem-solving, and ethical reasoning skills. Experiment Design for Validity : Designing experiments or studies to test hypotheses and validate theories is a key skill.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

Their mission is to ensure every student is “ AI ready ” — prepared to use emerging technologies, like generative AI, in an ethical and responsible manner in school, life and future work, regardless of where those careers take them. At Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS), educators are determined to make sure both answers are “yes.”

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

Try This in Your Class Tomorrow If you want to test this out without overhauling your syllabus, here’s a quick plug-and-play format: Choose a paradox related to your next topic. Ethics Why do people follow rules that conflict with their values? Sometimes they want the damn answer And that’s okay. Make it messy.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

Try This in Your Class Tomorrow If you want to test this out without overhauling your syllabus, here’s a quick plug-and-play format: Choose a paradox related to your next topic. Ethics Why do people follow rules that conflict with their values? Sometimes they want the damn answer And that’s okay. Make it messy.

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Syllabus Ethics Art Questions 85

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

While there was initial apprehension, the focus on ethical use and integrity has been reassuring and beneficial. Prioritize ethics and equity. We began with a pilot program to test AI tools in targeted areas before expanding to broader use. Many students and families were initially afraid of AI. Start small.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

She became one of the first Turnitin users at the large community college north of Los Angeles, testing out the software before campuswide adoption. 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. Ruys mused.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

The result: districts are facing shortages of educators who are not only qualified to teach, but certified in areas where compliance is non-negotiable, such as delivering IEP services, bilingual content-based instruction, or state-tested core courses. Pay special attention to Title I campuses and state-tested subjects. Fewer teachers.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2025

Some Newark teachers reported that the tutoring tool was helpful in the classroom, but the district has not released data on whether it helped raise student performance and test scores. Through Taubmans class, students are also identifying how AI increases the demand for skills that require human emotion, such as empathy and ethics.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Every test score, attendance log, learning app, or digital assignment generates data. Why it matters for K-12 teachers As educators, we regularly interact with data, benchmark scores, reading levels, engagement analytics from edtech tools, and state test results. It is essential. Our classrooms are data-rich, but are we data-literate?

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Ethics Education Culture Social Studies 297

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Is war more or less ethical with unmanned planes and drones? Practice perspective-taking by exploring pros and cons How strong are your students’ arguments when testing against a counterargument? A vegan diet is the only ethical way to eat. Is it ever okay to cheat on a test? When should teenagers have the right to vote?

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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

JUNE 13, 2024

” In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark conducted the now-famous “doll test,” which revealed the negative impact of segregation on Black children’s self-esteem and racial identity. Board of Education sought to eradicate. At first glance, AI chatbots offer a world of promise.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 5, 2024

While getting hacked by a bad guy can sometimes be inevitable, schools should take a proactive approach by hiring an ethical hacker to find the holes in their network before a bad actor can exploit them. Also known as penetration testing, these exercises can help make schools more…

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2021

Their applications are being tested, products are being built, data is being collected. Educators can facilitate conversations around ethics in technology with students so that these technologies develop equitably. But do you know how the two are related? But by and for who? Today’s schools can start laying the groundwork now.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2024

No one denies it can make student testing more efficient, faster, possibly leading to better educational outcomes for all learners. While experts acknowledge risks such as bias and access disparities, they foresee AI-driven assessments reshaping education by tailoring tests to individual needs and promoting deeper learning.

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Testing Plagiarism Ethics Fairness 174

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

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

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

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

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

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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Intelligence Ethics Education Teaching Methods 246

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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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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