eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Tell me indicates that I, the teacher, have asked a question and want an answer. Each student should know that their voice matters–not just because they happen to be answering my question but because we all have something to learn from what they say. I want to judge what has been said. Then, say Tell us __.

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Culture Feedback Language Languages 271

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. How I Used (and Didn’t Use) AI in My Classroom : How quickly should we incorporate AI in our classrooms? What should we use?

Art 295

Art Math STEM Participation 295

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Students also use Gemini for real-time academic help, such as asking follow-up questions and details about a particular topic. Albuquerque Public Schools is focusing on grant writing and lesson planning. With Gemini’s help, the district won four grants totaling $100,000, all by using Gemini to aid in grant research and writing.

Education 211

Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 211

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

From a young age, I was captivated by a single question: “Can learning be more meaningful than memorization?” My journey has been one of constant evolution—from questioning the system to becoming someone who works to reimagine it. As a student, I found myself disengaged, even though I deeply valued the idea of learning.

Interdisciplinary 246

Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 246

eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

Using Book Creator, educators can align writing goals to multimedia production, making literacy more interactive, purposeful, and relevant. It also includes question sets to aid in developing reading comprehension skills and vocabulary. Furthermore, the collaborative features allow for group projects and shared books.

Quizzes 158

Quizzes Social Studies Learning Students 158

Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Navigating the Disorienting Dilemma As we reason through this innovative technology, we will question truth and reality. Step Up Your Thinking Game An advanced thinker not only poses questions to others but focuses within. What other questions could be asked to dive deeper and more concisely into the information?

Critical Thinking 97

Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 97

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. A red use would be inappropriate or unethical, such as asking ChatGPT to write an essay based on an assigned prompt. Providing straightforward questions to consider can “help people proceed when they don’t know what to do.”

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Essay Ethics Fairness Assignments 171

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. How I Used (and Didn’t Use) AI in My Classroom : How quickly should we incorporate AI in our classrooms? What should we use?

Art 146

Art Math STEM Participation 146

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

So, in 2019, when I found out that a former manager of mine was starting a school that answered the same questions that plagued me, I knew I wanted in. By asking these questions, we instill the importance of decision-making skills in students and a sense of responsibility for their learning that traditional school models otherwise lack.

Schools 141

Schools Failure Ethics Textbooks 141

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Blunt says her use of whiteboards includes “anything they want and anything I want,” she has four frequently-used prompts for making retrieval a regular part of her classes: brain dump: Ask students to write down everything they remember about a topic for 2 minutes. “Present students with a multiple choice question.”

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

For example, at the end of our discussion on memory formation, I ask students to quickly write down the most important concept they learned and one question they still have. In our next class, I address the most common questions, creating a feedback loop that keeps everyone engaged.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Minute Papers 64

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Course Context I teach a required, writing-intensive course for students in their junior year of their undergraduate studies. In addition to a heavy writing component, there is also a heavy reading component. Spinning Questions. Students spin the wheel and respond to questions in small groups. Conversation Cards.

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Instructors Assignments Participation Students 91

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it.

Plagiarism 118

Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 118

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. How I Used (and Didn’t Use) AI in My Classroom : How quickly should we incorporate AI in our classrooms? What should we use?

Art 150

Art Math STEM Participation 150

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

From a young age, I was captivated by a single question: “Can learning be more meaningful than memorization?” My journey has been one of constant evolution—from questioning the system to becoming someone who works to reimagine it. As a student, I found myself disengaged, even though I deeply valued the idea of learning.

Interdisciplinary 144

Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 144

Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Navigating the Disorienting Dilemma As we reason through this innovative technology, we will question truth and reality. Step Up Your Thinking Game An advanced thinker not only poses questions to others but focuses within. What other questions could be asked to dive deeper and more concisely into the information?

Critical Thinking 111

Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 111

k12 Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

As we consider the role of AI in our lives, one quote has kept popping up on my echo-chamber social media feeds: “I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes” (Joanna Maciejewska). Maybe we are asking the wrong questions?

Essay 130

Essay Writing Art Knowledge 130

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

The team began with the open-ended question, “How might we pilot different practices related to cell phone/social media use to gauge the effectiveness or impact on student well-being, engagement and sense of belonging?” These TAs receive leadership training and help younger students develop alternative study strategies.

Schools 183

Schools Students Feedback Participation 183

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship.

Education 121

Education Essay Culture Math 121

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

The course’s six modules began with essential questions — What is computational thinking? They then advanced to writing code that instructed how to build a specific tower using the cups. For each of them, the computational thinking course offered practical strategies and new perspectives. “We We learned so much. Where does it occur?

Science 144

Science Teachers Critical Thinking STEM 144

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

All you need is designated time in your class, the right writing materials, and a prompt that really inspires them. This list of 8th grade writing prompts is sure to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards!) ” You’ll also find tips for getting middle schoolers to write in every class. Yes, even math!

Writing 52

Writing Grades Middle School Middle School 52

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

My Journey in Alternative Grading: From Curiosity to Clarity The first time I stood in front of 20 bored freshmen, all alone, teaching a course I had designed, also all alone, I was teaching a general education writing and speaking course at the University of Iowa. What a good question. You cant learn without laboring (76).

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 72

Teach Hub

JUNE 13, 2025

These kinds of questions open the door for an honest conversation without letting them off the hook. Each week, ask open-ended questions like, “What’s something fun you did this weekend?” That might mean writing an apology note or checking in on someone they hurt. For example, ask them: What happened? Who was affected and how?

Language 98

Language Languages Questions Writing 98

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

They consider whether communication is still a key leadership trait if AI tools can help people write emails or manage schedules. Younger ones have been forced to question it more openly. They debate. They ask, “What does kindness in leadership actually look like?” They’re not fractured so much as they’re adapting.

Beliefs 146

Beliefs Communication Lecturing Culture 146

Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 12, 2025

Whether it’s hearing an author share about the creative writing process, exchanging postcards with students in another part of the world, or even attending a mystery Zoom with a special guest, these moments help students see how we’re all connected. It can also inspire students to spend more time on their own writing!

Writing 52

Writing Questions Discussions Activities 52

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Sheza Shaikh centered mental health and belonging in her writing.

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Disabilities Course Design Students Lecturing 53

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2025

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom. Middle School and High School are designed for semester or quarter grading periods typical of those grade levels with topics like programming, robotics, writing an ebook, and community service with tech.

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Curriculum Grades Intelligence Middle School 112

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

I walked into my classroom and started with a question I didn’t know the answer to. The Paradox Effect That one question—unresolved, unanswerable, alive—did more to wake up my students than any HBR case ever had. “Why I never position the question as rhetorical. Students asked sharper questions. Another smiled.

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Syllabus Ethics Art Questions 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

I walked into my classroom and started with a question I didn’t know the answer to. The Paradox Effect That one question—unresolved, unanswerable, alive—did more to wake up my students than any HBR case ever had. “Why I never position the question as rhetorical. Students asked sharper questions. Another smiled.

Syllabus 85

Syllabus Ethics Art Questions 85

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Start with a question like: What animals or plants have you seen in your neighborhood? with guided questions. By organizing ideas visually, students can structure their thinking, make connections, and build confidence before they start writing or speaking. A synonym for is. One difference is because.

Language 52

Language Languages Participation Writing 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

The key question is: how can we transform AI from a potential source of plagiarism into a valuable educational resource? Getting Meta with AI in the Classroom: A Reflective Approach In a junior-level education course, I assigned students the task of writing a reflective paper on the various uses of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, in the classroom.

Ethics 87

Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 87

eSchool News

MAY 20, 2025

Thats the question our team of educators in the Oktibbeha County School District set out to answer when we created One-Two-Three-Read!, Paper pockets held fun incentives like extra recess, sitting in the teachers chair, or the rare treat of writing with a pen. A bulletin board reading Want a bright idea?

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Motivation Reading Achievement Feedback 167

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” Anne Trumbore “I have been an ensemble player in the transformation of online education from experimental and low status to ‘innovative’ and ‘disruptive,’” she writes. “I

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History Intelligence Writing Knowledge 117

Teach Thought

MAY 27, 2025

Prompting it to generate interview questions may fall under Applying , while using it to design a project or co-write a podcast script can reach Creating. The answer depends on the design of the task. Asking ChatGPT to summarize an article aligns with Understanding.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Critical Thinking Knowledge Reading 52

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Teachers regularly use technology, not just to teach, but to help students think deeper, ask better questions, and tell their own stories. Students explore big ideas through play, questions, and reflection. They dont just memorize factsthey weigh them, question them, and apply them. Every student has their own MacBook or iPad.

Schools 209

Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Beliefs 209

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. These questions werent accusations.

Academic Integrity 92

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

A good classroom management system, a novel list, and a set of writing prompts go a long way to set students and teachers up for success. Keep writing prompts on hand 6. Keep writing prompts on hand Some 8th graders claim they don’t like writing, but we all know those 8th graders just haven’t found the right prompt yet!

Grades 52

Grades Teaching Teachers Teaching Philosophy 52