In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better?

Coaching from artificial intelligence chatbots, personalized and accessible at any time, is now shaping how some students write.
Edutopia

5 Ways to Increase the Quantity and Quality of Students’ Writing

Having students move beyond descriptive paragraphs and five-paragraph essays can help improve their ability to write—and their love of doing it.
Education Week

Creative Writing in Science Class

Making up their own stories helps students learn material in fresh ways. It may sound unorthodox, but as a middle school science teacher, I’ve found that one of the best ways to engage students is ...
EducationNC

Perspective | How improvement science transformed my students’ reading and writing

An Alamance County middle school teacher helped her students analyze texts to improove their reading comprehension.
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Writing in Public (in the Classroom)

A few weeks ago my ProfHacker colleague Mark Sample posted a wonderful article on his personal blog, “On Reading Aloud in the Classroom.” In that post, Mark takes on the perception shared by many in ...
Education Week

Students in My Math Classes Next Year Will Do a Lot of Writing. Here’s Why

I started my teaching career at a large comprehensive high school, teaching math exactly as I had been taught. Each day, I introduced my students to a new type of problem, solved a problem for them, ...
The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: Evidence increases for writing during math class

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Essay writing and ...

Pennsylvania schools to embrace cursive writing once again

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

AI in the Classroom Is a Problem. Professors Are the Solution.

Recently I raised the subject of ChatGPT with a group of Ph.D. students, on the cusp of faculty careers. Which writing task would they like to hand over to a bot? And which one would they rather not ...
UMass Lowell

First-year Writing Classes Get Creative

Math major Nicquela Roach says she expected her first-year writing classes to be “just a lot of long papers.” They weren’t. In fact, Roach’s College Writing II professor broke the ice by having ...