eSchool News

MAY 30, 2025

Easy to find, not always true: Helping students evaluate AI-generated content For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub For years now, the promise of AI in education has centered around efficiency–grading faster, recommending better content, or predicting where a student might struggle. But its a start.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2025

AI literacy includes the ability to use AI tools effectively and ethically, evaluate their output, ensure humans are at the core of AI, and adapt to the evolving AI landscape in both personal and professional settings.”

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Ethics Critical Thinking Intelligence Evaluation 212

Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2020

This project uses the 5Es instructional model–engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate–to guide students through a learning experience focused on a topic of their choice. The goal of this learning cycle is to give students the agency to decide what they want to learn about before the school year officially ends.

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Evaluation Online Learning Questions Activities 545

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

–What questions or suggestions do they have? I suggest that teachers record a short video or screencast reviewing the directions for the second station to reduce questions and confusion as students work through that second station on their own. Finally, I would encourage teachers to end their lessons with an exit ticket activity.

Evaluation 546

Evaluation Feedback Writing Assignments 546

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Too often, a teacher’s questions in a video conferencing session are met with long silences. ” First, it is important to remember that participating in a real-time discussion is scary and feels like a risk for students who are shy, anxious, or need more time to process the questions. Facilitating Online Discussions.

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Discussions Participation Questions Assignments 546

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Another strategy for maximizing the asynchronous time is to design a student-centered inquiry on a high-interest topic or essential question for students to self-pace through. The topic or question driving a 5Es inquiry cycle can be related to the work students are doing in class. ” which has a collection of excellent examples.

Learning 546

Learning History Blended Learning Questions 546

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

” I get this question a lot, so I want to start by highlighting a few of the benefits of flipped instruction and flipped modeling. Engagement Strategy #1 Pair the Video with Questions. You can use Screencastify (a new feature ) or Edpuzzle to insert questions into the video itself.

Multiple Choice Questions 543

Multiple Choice Questions Blended Learning Discussions Art 543

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

It helps students understand what is expected and how they will be evaluated. Answering those questions creates clarity about what teachers and students are working toward, making it easier to design a rubric to measure progress toward those learning objectives.

Fairness 545

Fairness Assignments Feedback Evaluation 545

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Understanding what teachers find cognitively engaging in their work can help them 1) evaluate where they are investing their time and energy resources, 2) reflect on whether those tasks are energizing or draining, and 3) make adjustments in their approach to workflows that they find mentally draining. What did they do well?

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Blended Learning Teachers Learning Grades 535

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

It is in the moments when students are practicing and applying that they encounter obstacles, have questions, and need additional support. I encourage teachers to consider the following question. Studies in Educational Evaluation , 45 , 17-26. The Flipped Classroom Model: Using Video Strategically. 77, 81–112. Valiandes, S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

The Gems evaluate the uploaded information and offer a review of the district’s current curriculum. Students also use Gemini for real-time academic help, such as asking follow-up questions and details about a particular topic. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is using NotebookLM and Gemini for curriculum review and district guidance.

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Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 196

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It is a process where students evaluate their work, reflecting on what they’ve learned, how well they’ve understood complex concepts, how much progress they’ve made toward mastering key skills, and where they may need to invest time and energy to improve their concept knowledge and skill set.

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Evaluation Assignments Failure Discussions 428

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

The 5Es instructional model is composed of the following stages: 1) Engage, 2) Explore, 3) Explain, 4) Elaborate, and 5) Evaluate. Engage : Develop a Question to Drive Your Inquiry Cycle. As a group, they identify an area of focus and craft a question to frame and focus their work together. Evaluate: Assess the Effectiveness.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Our AI guiding principles started this process of building an ethical AI mindset, which provided pathways to critically question AI in our system. Defining AI in each of these spaces has resulted in the emergence of specific questions that guide AI usage and encourage innovation with AI.

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Ethics Education Intelligence Culture 327

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Do they know how to question a graph they see on social media? They can explore questions like, What trends do we see in this data? In social studies , students can interpret historical or demographic data, question sources, and discuss how data is used to shape policy. And it doesnt require a separate course.

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Ethics Education Culture Social Studies 278

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tutoring practices that include non-evaluative feedback and mindful approaches support writers’ growth holistically. I don’t start from a deficit approach, but rather, I listen to writers’ concerns and accompany them through their academic journey with a non-evaluative and mindful approach.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Language 119

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

I fear schools will revert to what is comfortable and what aligns with existing mental models instead of questioning the status quo, taking inventory of the lessons learned this year, and paving a new path forward. I believe these are aspects of education we have the opportunity to re-evaluate and reimagine in the wake of COVID.

Mental Models 541

Mental Models Education Hybrid Learning Blended Learning 541

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2019

NewseumED is committed to helping students “learn how to authenticate, analyze and evaluate information from a variety of sources” and supporting teachers in putting “current events in historical context through standards-aligned lesson plans, videos, primary sources, virtual classes, and programs.”

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Evaluation Participation Discussions Skills 311

eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

Our AI guiding principles started this process of building an ethical AI mindset, which provided pathways to critically question AI in our system. Defining AI in each of these spaces has resulted in the emergence of specific questions that guide AI usage and encourage innovation with AI.

Ethics 334

Ethics Education Intelligence Culture 334

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 170

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Unlike summative assessment, which typically occurs at the end of a learning cycle to evaluate students’ overall progress toward the unit’s desired results, formative assessment is ongoing and designed to inform instruction, indicate areas where additional differentiation is needed, and guide learning. Check for understanding.

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Feedback Quizzes Coaching Discussions 431

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2024

Ask better questions–and teach students to ask their own Increasing the rigor of the questions we are asking is another way to support critical thinking. That means asking questions that go beyond basic knowledge and comprehension to require higher-order thinking skills such as application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Critical Thinking 338

Critical Thinking Metacognitive Skills Knowledge Achievement 338

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Then each student shared their ongoing assessment document with his/her parents as a “Comment only” document, so parents could follow their child’s progress and post questions. Students are able to post comments and questions in response to our feedback and this often leads to a conversation about how to improve.

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Grades Feedback English Evaluation 420

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). Write each question so it can receive its own response.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2024

It equips them with the knowledge to critically evaluate information, understand scientific concepts, and make informed decisions in a rapidly changing world. The CRAAP strategy teaches students to evaluate information sources based on five criteria: Currency , Relevance , Authority , Accuracy , and Purpose. Is It CRAAP?:

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Science STEM Evaluation Critical Thinking 315

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2024

Two key tools educators have been using for decades are Bloom’s Taxonomy and Costa’s Levels of Questioning. Now, more than ever, educators need to focus on the four upper levels of Bloom’s 1956 taxonomy (with evaluation at the top) and the processing and applying levels of Costa’s levels.

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Evaluation Quizzes Ethics Knowledge 286

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Media literacy empowers students to critically evaluate sources, assess the intent behind content, and engage with diverse perspectives. Numerous applications and platforms can facilitate engaged learning and critical thinking , helping students consume information and analyze, evaluate, and create content responsibly.

Skills 310

Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 310

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2024

The use of AI in teacher coaching brings up similar questions. But some teachers said they still had questions about how accurately the technology can capture subtle classroom interactions, how useful its data will be, and whether it will be skewed by biases.

Intelligence 329

Intelligence Teachers Coaching Feedback 329

Catlin Tucker

JULY 25, 2016

The texts are paired with Think Questions and writing prompts that I can use or adapt. There is a short quiz paired with each article, so teachers can assess the students’ ability to comprehend, analyze and evaluate what they’ve read. StudySync has freed me from the limitations of our school book room.

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Online Learning Technology Blended Learning English 420

eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2020

Once you find the video you want to use, you can use the TED-Ed Lessons editor to add questions, discussion prompts, and additional resources. So how can we better evaluate risk? The TED-Ed platform is especially cool because educators can build lessons around any TED-Ed Original, TED Talk, or YouTube video.

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Evaluation Attention Discussions Questions 331

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Many teachers already are rethinking assessments and assignments to shift the question from how students will use AI to cheat, to how students can learn to use AI responsibly. Students analyze, evaluate, and critique the technology’s answers in order to build strong information literacy skills.

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Plagiarism Education Assignments Essay 332

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In the Baldwin Union Free School District , educators and leaders are working diligently to avoid brain rot as they strive to teach students how to ask questions, evaluate information sources, and become actively involved in their communities. One of the questions we ask is, Should you share this? Everyone should be doing this.

Critical Thinking 255

Critical Thinking Social Studies Evaluation Fairness 255

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 6, 2020

If the routines currently in place isolate learners or create distance between the teacher and students, then we need to re-evaluate them. If teachers want to start the day with a quick check-in, I recommend presenting a question for pairs to discuss in a two-minute talk format. 1 The Whole Group Welcome.

Coaching 453

Coaching Blended Learning Activities Questions 453

Faculty Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

Based on the focus, peer observations can be classified into two models: formative-developmental and summative-evaluative. However, the observer can add comments or questions about the classroom events to be discussed later in the post-observation meeting.

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Evaluation Teaching Teaching Methods Faculty Development 102

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The critical question is, “ What is the right type of co-learning ?” We must transfer the responsibility of evaluating how much of the work is original from the teacher to the student , and we must explicitly teach students how to take on that responsibility. How do we evaluate their knowledge? The answer: we ask them.

Essay 338

Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 338

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2018

My teaching team places an equal emphasis on evaluating the development of soft skills because our program is project-based. If they have a question, comment, or request for support, they attach a comment to their narrative explanation and tag one of us so we can follow up with them directly.

Students 420

Students Grades Achievement Evaluation 420

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Teachers should ensure students are using AI as a thought partner and for instant feedback, not simply to obtain answers to questions. Guiding questions for an AI-infused classroom include: How do we inspire students to value authentic expression in an era where AI often does the writing for them? is a requirement for AI literacy.

Ethics 337

Ethics Feedback Evaluation Assignments 337