EdTech Magazine

JULY 12, 2019

It can be tough to determine reliable sources of information about how to keep devices secure, how to protect sensitive information and how to ensure compliance with applicable laws. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how K–12 schools can balance privacy and security protocols. Technology Planning Starts with an Assessment.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing to Learn: How Writing Positively Impacts Learning & Academic Success The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) states that writing is “ one of the most important skills that students acquire and develop during K-12 schooling. Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016).

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100mentors

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

We conclude this series with the last but not least IB requirements for teaching and learning in the Diploma Programme (DP): assessment and self-management skills. This final installment covers h ow to cultivate students’ self-management skills through teaching informed by assessment. How can you turn this around?

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 11, 2018

Lately, I have been focusing on “common assessments” versus “common understandings.” ” I have written about this in the past and shared the following ideas on why “common assessments” do not necessarily do what they hope they do.” Assessment of learning. Assessment of learning.

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Digital Promise

JULY 15, 2021

I have been extremely fortunate to be a part of OTAN’s Digital Leadership Academy (DLAC ), first as a participant in 2016, and now as a coach to mentor other adult educators in meeting their program goals. Early on, the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment is taken by each member to determine their top strengths.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

GoogleEduOnAir 2016 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Google Edu On Air 2016 is FREE PD for You! Click here to register for Google Edu On Air 2016. Do you want to travel and help other teachers learn how to use Google Apps in their classroom? © Shake Up Learning 2016. That’s right! Tips and Tricks .

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Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

Find out what family engagement is, how to nurture it, and how to create a community built on family-teacher relationships in your school. How to Increase Family Engagement. Journal of Education and Practice, November 2016, 7, 82-98. Encouraging family engagement is more than common courtesy. What is Family Engagement?

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2017

At the beginning of the 2016-17 school year, 82 percent of Morgen Owings Elementary School’s students were working below grade level. We have work to do, but shifting our mindset regarding assessment has made a huge impact. With only so many hours in a day, and days in a week how do we decide which assessments we need?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Ralabate (2016) gives us five fundamental questions that allow teachers to begin to transform their practice. Valid Does my assessment evaluate the specific learning objective I am attempting to assess? Context matters: How Should We Conceptualize Equity in Mathematics Education? Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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100mentors

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

We conclude this series with the last but not least IB requirements for teaching and learning in the Diploma Programme (DP): assessment and self-management skills. This final installment covers h ow to cultivate students’ self-management skills through teaching informed by assessment. How can you turn this around?

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

When a competency-based approach to assessment is in place, students must show what they know as well as what they can do. According to a 2016 report by iNACOL, 36 states are currently investigating policy surrounding competency-based education. Below are five ways to approach competency-based learning assessment.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Part Two: The Funding Figuring out how to fund the development of education technology continued to be complex: Investors in US edtech startups hit a high-water mark in 2015 with US companies raising $1.45 In 2016, that edtech figure looks like it will be closer to $1.03B. Check out what your local school pays for broadband here.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

adults ages 18–65—around 118 million—perform at or below the lowest proficiency levels in problem solving in technology rich environments ( National Center for Education Statistics, 2016 ). The goal of the assessment was to analyze how technology is implemented in adult education classrooms throughout the city.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Teacher-prep programs, she added, bear a large part of the responsibility here: Many teachers-in-training receive just one course in how to teach reading — a teaching task which experts agree is extremely complex — before heading into the classroom. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 14, 2018

While we should continue to work with legislators, vital stakeholders, and other key policy-makers to change this practice, we need to ensure that students are best prepared for these assessments. Testing has evolved, and many assessments now include what are commonly referred to as “technology-enhanced items.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

From how to form reading groups, how to reach individual children, and how to communicate with parents, Dr. Robb's advice is practical and extensive. But we know the more stories children to hear and the more stories they talk about, the more they develop what's needed to break the code and learn how to read.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016. The latest iteration is more focused on use and design, which emphasize how these technologies are used within schools. These reports, some observers believe, mark a thoughtful step toward ensuring digital equity.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Over time, they have learned that some of the skills that are most critical for success are difficult to teach and even harder to assess. It’s not always as simple as purchasing a curriculum, or even modifying an existing set of assessments, because in many cases, these materials don’t yet exist.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 23, 2016

Advice From a Student Assessment Researcher About What is Fair and Unfair in Today's Grading Systems From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. With almost 9,000 downloads and counting, this show is the most popular episode on Every Classroom Matters in 2016 so far.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2015, the PISA financial literacy assessment found that 15-year-olds in the U.S. Clearly, education should be doing more to ensure that students are graduating with financial literacy skills, and while most K-12 teachers understand the importance of teaching financial literacy, as shown in a 2016 survey , only 12 percent teach it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”. By the end of 2016, almost 90 percent of the district’s students and their families had access to free internet at home. The post How to do online learning well? Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. Of course, combining classes is easier said than done. But we have also seen other benefits.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Kate showed James this otherworldly site, and James tested how the AI was answering questions with intriguing bias depending on the type of question (“What’s the best way to stop terrorists?” vs. “How to bring peace to the Middle East”). Instead, I hope that you will feel more prepared with how to address AI in your classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

When an exam is designed to assess a wide set of skills and content, and success is calculated by one total score, students walk away identifying as a letter, number or percentage. Our team collaborated to determine how mastery was achieved for each of those standards, and developed sample tasks for each level of mastery on a given standard.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

According to the World Economic Forum’s 2016 “ The Future of Jobs ” report, which predicts how technology will transform the workplace, the social-emotional and learning skills below are exactly the ones that our children need now and in the future: Creativity.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Assessment. Research reveals that students ubiquitously perceive assessment as something that is “done to them [sic] by someone else — and is out of their control.” 2016, May). New Assessment Beliefs for a New School Mission, Phi Delta Kappan, p.22-27. 6, 2016, pp. Evaluation. Retrieved from [link]. [3]

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Researchers have devoted decades to studying how to study. You’re going to grossly overestimate how well you know the information if you test yourself right away.”. The post How to study smarter appeared first on The Hechinger Report. At least not if that’s all you do. Illustration: Stuart Kinlough/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the years after the law went into effect, the testing and data industries flourished, selling school districts interim assessments to track student progress throughout the year along with flashy data dashboards that translated student achievement into colored circles and red warning flags. Why doesn’t data analysis work?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The program began in March 2016 at MIT, a comprehensive middle school with 6th, 7th and 8th grades. Providing technology training for parents to increase engagement with schools, including understanding how to help their students use technology in learning. About the Literacy Initiative. Preliminary Results.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Updated: February 5, 2016. How to Manage a Classroom in Google. They have tons of resources and how-to’s. Assessment. Online Assessment with Google Forms – this document gives walk throughs for Flubaroo and other tools to help you assess using Google Forms. Google Classroom Resources.

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100mentors

JANUARY 23, 2018

“What organizations and individuals need is competence, which requires the abilities and skills to apply knowledge to accomplish tasks and solve problems” ( Toikkanen, 2016 ). Student understanding has traditionally been measured by final grades on assessments requiring memorization and regurgitation of facts.

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Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

How to Use Stress Management Techniques in School. Anxiety about grades and assessments is one of the major causes (outside of ACEs) of student stress.[12] Voices in Urban Education, 2016, 43, pp. Advances in Pediatrics, 2016, 63(1), pp. Social Science & Medicine, June 2016, 159, pp. Fatigue or lack of energy.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 17, 2015

I have often reflected on the idea of formative assessment. Second, it may be better stated as formative learning since I view assessment as a part of the overall learning experience. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Hope to see you there!

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2017

Our 1200+ students would begin the 2016-2017 school year armed with a fleet of shiny new Chromebooks. When I tried something new in my classroom that didn’t work, I shared and brainstormed with my Breakthrough peers on how to adjust and try it again.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 19, 2017

To meet this goal, Montgomery and his team created a design thinking curriculum, where students learn how to first understand a problem and end-user, then brainstorm solutions, create prototypes, analyze data, and finally, engage in multiple design iterations to solve a problem.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

However, despite the obvious need to better prepare teachers to deal with classroom management, only 42% of teacher preparation programs offer significant feedback to their student teachers in this area, according to this 2016 paper by the National Council on Teacher Quality. Assess the activity. Give them breaks.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2018

In fact, Verizon’s 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report concluded that the education sector ranked sixth in the U.S. Leverage an industry, thought leader, or vendor partner who can run a security assessment on your network. Administrators are tasked with keeping information about a school’s faculty and students secure.

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