Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. In all fairness, it was pretty sweet.

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Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

How do you extrapolate that to the to the to the Internet? Part of it is the pandemic spurred a lot more adoption of computers, laptops, better Internet bandwidth, all those pieces. Take the US history course you develop it. Trick now that sometimes takes the form of a fully online school, but that’s actually fairly rare.

Learning 130

Learning Discussions Gamification Technology 130

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I Plus, Croft says, tabletop games don’t have to rely on one-to-one devices or fast internet. But does better engagement improve their grades?

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Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 215

Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

Reidel has been teaching high school civics and history for over two decades. I mean, that's the thing that's been amazing is just to sit and reflect upon these pillars, in my mind, of American history who are so much more than what we often describe them as. history and civics class—are also things that I'll take back as my project.

History 181

History Social Studies Study Writing 181

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 23, 2016

A common and recurring question from parents is how to keep their children safe while using the internet. Every parent is aware of the dangers lurking in the dark corners of the internet. For years, it was a fairly simple process of monitoring history and blocking certain search terms.

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Internet Fairness History Curriculum 112

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

In her 2018 bestseller “ The Library Book ,” author Susan Orlean uses the history of a fire that destroyed parts of the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986 to explore transformations that libraries and librarians have undergone over the last hundred years. In most cases, lack of resources is considered a liability.

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Schools History Disabilities Fairness 113

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

We taught sixth-grade students ancient history through an archaeology simulation we developed on black-and-white Macintosh computers. Whether or not this is true (it’s not), the underlying reality is that for much of human history, education meant mastering a finite and unchanging set of knowledge and skills.

Education 133

Education Knowledge History Science 133

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

If the teacher wants to use games to learn history, Minecraft won’t throw students into a fully fleshed simulation of the American Revolution. A note: Any time students use the internet, start with a discussion on how to use it safely. There’s merely what You decide and where those decisions land You.

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Writing Reading Teaching Evaluation 199

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

A Google Docs version history where it appears as though text was copied and pasted in all at once? Consider, for example, that many of the popular GenAI tools were designed by stealing tons of copyrighted data from the Internet. This is not fair” (Syed, 2023). 2023; Perkins et al., 2024; Weber-Wulff et al.,

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

But Nicholas Lemann, a professor of journalism at Columbia University and author of “ The Big Test ,” a book published in 1999 about the history of the SAT, disputed that claim, saying the number of students whose acceptance to a college hinges on their test scores each year is “infinitesimal.”

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Testing Exams Internet Fairness 162

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 10, 2017

Because work is created and shared in the Cloud, users can access it from Internet-connected locations by logging into their Google account. Revision history. You can find this option under File>See Revision History (or click Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H) and it comes up in the right sidebar. Great for writers work shops.

Writing 101

Writing History Fairness Curriculum 101

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

But because it’s a classic, ChatGPT and other tools have plenty of information about it, since many of those tools have been trained on recent Internet data. The assignment he revised was from a course he taught in 2012 about the history of mathematics and cryptography that fulfilled a campus writing requirement.

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Assignments Instructors Writing History 148

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

Like when we have states that say they're trying to recruit diverse educators, but [are] also telling them, “Erase yourself and your history as you're filling out that application.” And so they're pulling and drawing from an orientation, lens, history, and it's inserted into how they're approaching teaching. Board was a tactic.

Teachers 29

Teachers History Culture Attention 29

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Who your children meet on the Internet is not the same as the kids in the neighborhood or at school or on a youth sports team. You can check their browser history and who their friends are without feeling like you’re spying on them. As a general rule, unregulated online friends are a really really bad idea.

Questions 103

Questions Internet Ethics Fairness 103

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Siemens: It seemed like a good opportunity to expand the audience and get a message out about the importance and history of openness, and where things might be trending. Because, most people in the field have some view of, “You create a more fair, just, and compassionate world by having a more educated population.” And, why now?

Education 145

Education Participation Fairness Accessibility 145

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

Like an ad on the internet? This could be the single most successful ad in the history of education. Well, I think we're way too early in the history of this general adoption [to predict the outcome].If Going into undergraduate education was] really, the one time in our nine-year history that we did something entirely different.

History 99

History Culture Failure Fairness 99

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Additionally, for some independent schools, the potentially disruptive nature of these devices and online spaces presents perceived threats to institutional history and norms. While it is possible to enable greater student agency without digital technologies, computers coupled with Internet access are powerful amplifiers.

Schools 112

Schools Internet Lecturing Mobile Devices 112

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

A Google Docs version history where it appears as though text was copied and pasted in all at once? Consider, for example, that many of the popular GenAI tools were designed by stealing tons of copyrighted data from the Internet. This is not fair” (Syed, 2023). 2023; Perkins et al., 2024; Weber-Wulff et al.,

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

We typically talk about the “last-mile” – the connection between the larger Internet network and neighborhoods and communities. 5G can provide a cost-effective way to deliver fiber-like Internet speeds to schools, through Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). The metaverse will unlock an unprecedented level of digital equity in education.

Hybrid Learning 297

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 297

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Now, three school years later, it is fair to say that this generation of students will be like no other. For the cost of an internet connection and technology such as a VR headset, students of all backgrounds will have access to new learning experiences. The metaverse will unlock an unprecedented level of digital equity in education.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

EAB

JULY 11, 2023

But what is that value for students to continue to have a safe space or a space in which they are welcomed, to feel safe about who they are and their history or their identities? The students today have so much more access, and it's not just because of the Internet. Affirmative action, diversity efforts are not about fixing history.

Culture 40

Culture History Questions Essay 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

What about history (because those who don’t understand history are forced to repeat it) and civics (so we understand how government works)? If you haven’t guessed it yet, it’s the Internet. Let’s be honest: The Internet is a monster. Teenagers spend average nine hours a day on the Internet.

Internet 92

Internet Skills Teaching Fairness 92

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Fair is fair, speak out! With fewer and fewer undergraduates studying English, history and philosophy in college, the site for such conversations may be shifting away from campus. Prior to the pandemic, Andrews had considered opening a bar with a classroom in it, and she already owned the internet domain nightschoolbar.com.

Art 218

Art Instructors Study Reading 218

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2017

An epic legal battle between authors and publishers and the Internet giant over alleged copyright violations dragged on for years. The rest come from the Internet Archive’s ongoing scanning work and local digitization efforts, according to Furlough. He’s also vice provost for information collaboration and a professor of history there.

Fairness 167

Fairness History English Internet 167

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2020

At Oberlin College, most students in Jane Sancinito’s survey course on the history of Rome kept their cameras and microphones off so as not to create internet bandwidth burdens. Instructors who regularly convened live virtual class sessions didn’t always see much of their students, either.

Counselling 182

Counselling Fairness Students Exams 182

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Where middle school math might have failed to inspire students who were learning remotely over the last year-and-a-half, classes on theatre arts, animal science, sports history or yoga managed to do the trick. As Long As I Have Internet, I Can Teach’ Around that time, Cathryn McNamara was jumping into the fray. School was closed.

Internet 201

Internet Fairness Participation Science 201

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear and demonization have long torn us apart. I’ve done a fair share of couples therapy. “I know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy,” he said. “I

Beliefs 181

Beliefs Learning Fairness Skills 181

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

It was a really bad part of the history where the government was oppressing the population. I went and searched on the Internet there and found that they just released pictures of all of the people who had been captured in these concentration camps that they created. We'd just be crazy not to learn from that.

Textbooks 136

Textbooks Fairness Testing Motivation 136