Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? Then the state hands off to a vendor who writes a test. asks Mark Moulton.

Testing 167

Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

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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Teaching Ethics Education Teaching Methods 328

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

I’ve structured the grade interviews so they mirror our argumentative writing process. ” It’s a fair question. Then as grade reporting approaches, I sit down with every single student for a grade interview. Students come to these grade interviews prepared with a formal argument. They begin with a claim.

Grades 419

Grades Essay Exams English 419

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I would write the day’s learning objectives and agenda on the board and spend each class period moving my students as a unit through a series of learning activities. The result is a learning experience that is more attuned to individual needs and differences, ensuring each student has a fair chance at success.

Blended Learning 419

Blended Learning Education Feedback Fairness 419

eSchool News

JULY 21, 2017

As Dan Rothstein, executive director of the Right Question Institute, tells the story: “The teacher presented the following equation: 24 = (smiley face) + (smiley face) + (smiley face).” Then, she asked her students to think of as many questions as they could about the equation. 3) Write down every question exactly as stated. (4)

Internet 271

Internet Fairness Students Questions 271

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. Do you like watching sports live or on TV?

High School 52

High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

He has steered the course ever since, each spring when he takes breaks from writing books or pieces for The New Yorker, and it has become legendary in journalism circles. 4: On the Writing Process , and I was eager to talk to him about his craftsmanship as a teacher. McPhee lays out his course in his latest book, Draft No.

Writing 167

Writing Teaching English Reading 167

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And people are taking a fresh look at the question of whether everyone is getting education fairly. After all, the pandemic is forcing some serious reflections about what’s really essential teaching in schools and colleges. Wolfram is steeped in math tools.

Math 175

Math Writing Reading Fairness 175

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 256

Critical Thinking Social Studies Evaluation Fairness 256

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The critical question is, “ What is the right type of co-learning ?” Individual essays, science fair partner projects, group programming assignments, digital and physical art pieces–every single assignment from now on has a silent partner. The student must still write down that they did not use the tool.

Essay 337

Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 337

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s titled “ The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking ,” and it found that students who took notes on a TED talk by hand did better on conceptual recall questions afterward than those who typed their notes on a laptop. But there’s one problem with the research, Miller points out.

Study 215

Study Peer Review Fairness Writing 215

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Keeping the UC San Diego academic honesty policy in mind, consider the following: A student prompted Gemini to rewrite their text to improve the quality of their writing and submitted the AI-generated version of their text. A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2015

When we have our STEM Fair each year, parents are amazed by what they see and hear from the students. As students plan investigations to answer a question posed to them, they conduct tests, record and analyze data, and communicate their results. Take a question and turn it into an investigation and project. Science practices.

Science 240

Science Interdisciplinary STEM Learning 240

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The tweens took up the challenge, organizing the Tech Boost Conference and providing all the breakout sessions on topics that interested them — coding, making video games, writing music, using digital arts and a host of other cool tools now literally at their fingertips. A lightbulb-moment video kicked off Alphonso’s talk.

Middle School 278

Middle School Middle School Schools Fairness 278

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 8, 2019

If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to infuse technology more robustly, consider these 12 questions from Section D* of the 4 Shifts Protocol. If you’re not where you want to be yet, pick a couple of questions and select your desired answers instead (e.g., Let me know what questions you have.

Questions 99

Questions Technology Fairness Coaching 99

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

One of the obligatory questions in the interview process is What will you do if you disagree with the Governor? I think that there are some big questions that we have to ask as a state after the Governor’s school funding veto. 5 big questions for the Iowa Council on Educator Development. Budgets reflect policy priorities.

Questions 111

Questions Schools Fairness Failure 111

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

For example, to become better writers, readers, and critical thinkers, Quill.org offers low-income students an AI-powered literacy tutor that provides students real-time coaching and feedback on literacy activities that pair nonfiction reading with informational writing.

Education 296

Education Testing Feedback English 296

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Grass Head Science Journal – Growing Hair Experiment – Kindergarten & First By Class of Kinders Grade: K-1st Subject: Earth Sciences, Writing This experiment for kids includes a journal and a breakdown of the steps. The next day, have students write a secret message using a white crayon on white paper.

Elementary School 75

Elementary School Elementary School Science Schools 75

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2018

This is a common question administrators and educational practitioners ask when considering LMS adoption at the district level. Since young learners are still developing their reading, writing, and fine-motor skills, the notion is they are not developed enough to benefit from using an LMS.

Elementary School 174

Elementary School Elementary School Fairness Schools 174

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Keeping the UC San Diego academic honesty policy in mind, consider the following: A student prompted Gemini to rewrite their text to improve the quality of their writing and submitted the AI-generated version of their text. A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Teach Writing with Tech. Experiment with a wide variety of available digital writing tools to help your students develop their inner writer. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.

Teaching 195

Teaching Internet Writing Authentic Assessment 195

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” We have a larger population. A student on the opposing side retorted: “No way.

History 217

History Social Studies Education Knowledge 217

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

These improvised or newly created tabletop games do have to go through a fair bit of testing before being introduced as a lesson plan. Angie says despite testing the games in advance for timing and the desired learning outcome, actually using it in class can get derailed when students start to ask too many questions.

Teachers 215

Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 215

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 30, 2024

Write a Compelling Personal Essay Your personal essay is an opportunity to showcase your personality, experiences, and aspirations. Tip : Be authentic and honest in your writing. Visit Campuses and Attend College Fairs Visiting campuses can provide a firsthand experience of the university’s environment and culture.

High School 158

High School High School Essay Fairness 158

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

“I tried to explain that hacking was a clever way to solve a problem, but they weren’t buying it,” he writes. Since the publication of the first Make: magazine in 2005, there have been more than 50 editions, ten years of Maker Faires and a mushrooming of maker activities across the world. Understood—and embraced by literally millions.

Fairness 147

Fairness Writing Internet Questions 147

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The pandemic that 10 months ago transformed daily life left educators with a slate of questions that would have seemed unfathomable just a year ago: How do I teach online? Months after schools began going online, those are still open questions. Give yourself and everyone around you the permission to feel all emotions,” they write. “It

Counselling 181

Counselling Attention Hybrid Learning Writing 181

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Writing With Tech. Teach Writing with Tech. Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. fair use/public domain. Pick a topic: Tech infused Teacher/Classroom.

Instructors 158

Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 158

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

For questions, email askatechteacher@gmail.com. This includes topics like how to build your tech-infused classroom, using tech to differentiate for student needs, teaching reading and writing with tech (you can learn more about that in the class, Teaching Writing with Tech ), and favorite digital tools. fair use/public domain.

Instructors 31

Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 31

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Esther considered the question, sitting in a small room with Ms. I regularly refer to the Can Do Descriptors , which provide standard guidance to educators for assessing the current language proficiency of students in reading, writing, speaking and listening, and for planning instruction based on what students “can do.”

English 201

English Language Languages Teachers 201

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

Students were energetic, interested, asked great questions, engaged in excellent collaboration. Students got lots of questions and suggestions, both from classmates and from me, as they gave in-class presentations and discovered proofs in teams. There was also recognition at how much they had grown, especially in writing proofs.

Feedback 186

Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 186

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Multiple-choice questions don’t belong in college. For Nilson, who is director emerita of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation atClemson University, the problem isn’t multiple-choice questions, per se, but the broader issue of grade inflation. There are rules to writing good multiple-choice questions.

Testing 157

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 157

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Meanwhile, almost 40 percent of the American public still contest the results of a free and fair election, and with the 2024 federal election around the corner, political polarization in the United States seems neverending, leaving democracy in an arguably fragile state. Thinking historically is at the root of those skills.

History 198

History Education Social Studies Essay 198

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

There’s even an option to write stories together. As one educator writes about their experience with the tool, there are no individual user profiles, no way to collect likes and no followers — basically, no emphasis on comparison. Earlier, only a third of students playing a game would re-attempt a question they got wrong.

Gamification 205

Gamification Motivation Game-Based Learning Math 205

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 27, 2021

Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Teach Writing with Tech. Experiment with a wide variety of available digital writing tools to help your students develop their inner writer. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.

Internet 158

Internet Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Writing 158

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Teach Writing with Tech. Experiment with a wide variety of available digital writing tools to help your students develop their inner writer. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.

Blended Learning 158

Blended Learning Teaching Learning Internet 158

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. A video demo of the latest version of ChatGPT tutoring a student that went viral on YouTube has brought fresh attention to this question.

Intelligence 201

Intelligence Teaching Assistants Laboratory Assignments 201