Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

If you’ve got a child in the Georgia state school system, then you’ve probably heard of the Georgia Milestones Assessment System and how important it is. This post is a comprehensive guide on what the Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS) is all about. Grades 3 – 8 will take the End of Grade (EOG) assessment.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2019

At a time of major change at educational software and assessments provider Renaissance Learning executives decided to add one more item to their to-do list. Freckle can group students of similar learning levels for small group activities. It was spring 2018. A year of vetting math tool after math tool came to an end Monday.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

To help accomplish their vision – that every students get not just to but through college – Brooklyn Lab leverages Cortex, a digital learning platform where student data and work can be accessed by students, teachers, parents, and administrators alike. Positive Youth Development.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. Today, students are blessed with interactive platforms, personalized education, online learning, and educational software that have been designed to enhance the learning experience.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I’m a big believer in online web-based curricula that can be accessed from any browser, any digital device, any location. It makes learning organic, part of life rather than something that must happen from a certain book or room. Kiddom is an easy-to-use education platform designed as a centralized hub for teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2017

Students need access to tools that work. School, district, and state leaders make technology decisions every day that will affect student tech fluency, not to mention learning outcomes. But how do these leaders know whether their investments will lead to the student learning outcomes they desire? Rapidly emerging technologies.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2023

She specifically focused on social and cognitive processes in language learning, cultural differences in language learning behavior, sources of variation in learning, and primary language retention and loss. To learn more about the CGCS, visit CGCS.org.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Academic standards were the next to go. State SAT scores rose for 13 consecutive years. Charter school growth has remained stagnant.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2021

One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Across the country, kindergarteners are pressured to meet academic standards that both teachers and experts say many kids are developmentally not ready for. By giving students access to many types of dramatic play props, children have the freedom to explore and develop their own sense of gender and gender roles.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

But in the field of education, we don’t even have a complete set of static competency frameworks for digital data that are openly accessible and interoperable—to say nothing of dynamic data that support real-time pathway optimization. This data must be in a machine-readable format and interoperable to work in all apps and systems.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Open Up Resources offers two of the highest-reviewed curriculum for middle-school math and K-5 English, according to EdReports, which evaluates textbooks for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. It was a pleasant surprise when she learned about the brewing partnership between the startup and the nonprofit. “We

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Also, be sure to check out our tips video for parents , as well as our detailed review of Seesaw's potential for learning. Seesaw is a digital platform where teachers of all grade levels and content areas can create learning tasks and assignments for students. This allows teachers to assess student progress over time.

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N2Y

JULY 30, 2020

How might Stephen Hawking, one of the true geniuses of our time, have been judged if he were assessed without the benefit of his speech-generating device (SGD) and by someone who did not know who he was? Addressing learned helplessness. This results in lack of motivation to participate or perform in assessments or activities.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

Quality Standards: Consistently applying the same standards of quality to all curated OER is critical to any certification process. Considering factors such as level of authority, depth of learning, structure, advertisements, effectiveness, etc. One of the most common sets of structures are academic standards.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

With all of the digital tools available to teachers these days, developing learning experiences should be a cinch, right? In an ideal world,” muses Ralyea, “your state would produce a machine-readable standard translated into an easily consumable format. Will the system provide access to evidence-based resources?

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Empower Learning , a Utah-based developer of a learning management system (LMS), understands this pressure well. Eight years ago, some of its customers requested that Empower support the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) , an open data interoperability standard that was then in vogue with K-12 schools and districts.

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Gradelink

MAY 13, 2021

In the traditional grading system, letter grades are given for core subjects based on assessments like quizzes, tests, projects, homework, and more. All these assessments are scored and put into the gradebook and are averaged into a student’s letter grade. This method is quite user-friendly and familiar to all of us.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Department of Education spearheaded the #GoOpen movement, a collection of efforts to spur educators, publishers and technologists to make OER more available and easily accessible. There is also the US Department of Education’s Learning Registry, which contains resources created by various parts of the US Government. Last year, the U.S.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. They need to develop relationships with each student, learn about their individual situations, and help them as needed. Noguera, Ph.D.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

And we're serving more and more students who are just learning English. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

Last week, the topic was distance learning. As with every episode, there is a larger meta layer--in this case, why the jobs exist in the first place, and whether we are providing nearly 2 billion children and teenagers with the best solutions to the problem of learning. Gavin is co-founder and chair of Education Fast Forward’s debates.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

While it has been derided by educators for decades as incapable of truly measuring understanding, and while performance on such exams can be noticeably improved simply by learning a few tricks, the multiple choice question may have a larger, less obvious flaw that disrupts the tone of learning itself. You might be surprised.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

Furthermore, No Child Left Behind’s one-size-fits-all method of evaluating schools has been criticized as incentivizing low academic standards. These harsh punishments lead some districts to “teach the test” and prioritize third party assessment scores over student engagement and learning. Blended Learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Achieve3000 is the leading literacy solution in blended learning programs today, specializing in cloud-based, differentiated learning solutions for school-aged youth as well as adult learners. Our differentiated instruction solutions will give these kindergarteners-to-be the right start on the road to college and career success.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Unruly Studios (Boston) revolutionizes learning by combining coding and STEM education with physical play. They adopted a similar strategy in Maryland, offering schools quizzes that aligned to the state’s high-stakes assessment. Cast a wide net while maintaining clear focus “You can focus on growth, or you can focus on revenue.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 10, 2015

How To Add Rigor To Any Lesson, Unit, Or Assessment. Rigor is a fundamental piece of any learning experience. 10 Strategies To Add Rigor To Any Lesson, Unit, or Assessment. Require design thinking (often in project-based learning). by Terry Heick. It is also among the most troublesome due to its subjectivity.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Tacked-on learning technology can do this. But deep integration of technology–real at-the-marrow fusion of learning model, curriculum, and #edtech? You may need appreciate the way gamification can improve the visibility of the entire learning process. Where the learning happens. That changes everything.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2018

What's different because of our relationship with Purdue is that we now have access to real thought leaders in some of the disciplines that we're very excited to be able to participate in. It's something that learning about each other will bring us both to stronger places. Another example is we now have one one alumni association.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2023

Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system? Now, this integration can take just a few minutes.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 20, 2015

As most educators know, the Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy. Simply put, the standards outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade to be prepared for success in school, college, career and life.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

The Common Core standards, a set of English and math guidelines adopted by more than 40 states, challenge many commonly held beliefs — including how best to teach children to read. It’s creepy because you try your best, but some kids just can’t learn, and a teacher will get fired because of those kids.”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

Soft-launched last summer, the library currently houses more than 100 educational apps, which teachers can browse by subjects or categories (like assessment or presentation tools). So far, the library has since been accessed by around 250,000 teachers, who have made more than 9 million student accounts for the apps, according to the company.

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techlearning

MAY 24, 2018

At the IMS Global Learning Impact conference this week (#LILI2018), there were dozens of sessions covering the many ways interoperability is helping data play well together to create more user-friendly digital ecosystems. Christine Weiser, Content Director SETDA Launches New Resource to Support K12 Interoperability.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

His fellow panelist, Carnegie Learning CEO Barry Malkin, noted that smaller players can win adoption through reliable, third-party efficacy studies. EdReports has become a real big deal in K-12 publishing,” he said, referring to the nonprofit that reviews textbooks for alignment to academic standards. but even in China as well.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online GOOGLE FOR EDUCATION UPDATES ( edu.google.com ) Google for Education announced updates and new tools to help teachers keep innovation alive in their classrooms. The webinars are led by teachers and come pre-recorded and live on the Center.

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