Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Doing some assessment, finding out where they are at and moving on from there. On June 9, the National Education Association heard a flurry of criticism from its union members after publishing an article titled, “ As More Schools Look to Personalized Learning, Teaching May Be About to Change.” Moving from an assessment. “I

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Hapara

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Definition of personalized learning There is no one definition of personalized learning. The very nature of personalized learning defies definition. In an ISTE article , he clarifies that education is not something imposed on a learner in personalized learning. The education field has yet to agree on how to define it.

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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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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In my last post we explored surprising findings that many recent high school graduates (and by definition digital natives) arrive in the workplace or college, without sufficient computer skills. The percentage results are shown below, courtesy of this CNBC article. Students are bad at Google search.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The purpose of this post is to introduce you to this concept, provide you with some definitions of what it is, and discuss some ways to integrate it in your instruction. How to implement: Assign students to read a specific article or blog post. Ask them to apply critical thinking questions to assess its credibility.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Here are key steps districts need to enact to build healthy financial plans: Step 1: Diagnose your district’s needs and financial realities To address the post-ESSER financial cliff, districts should reevaluate their definitions of student success in light of devastating learning loss experienced during the pandemic.

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The Jose Vilson

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There’s definitely more work to do on the hyper-local/district level in poring through data, but a country with thousands of school districts, myriad decision-making structures, and a pandemic that killed over a million people within its borders fared better than average.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

That makes it a definite win for the students. The second is that it encourages teamwork, a useful skill for the future, which is the subject of the last point of this article. On the one hand, teachers may write assessments, or give audio or visual files regarding student performances directly to them.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Not all asynchronous learning is the same and new trends emerge as new technology emerges–and more importantly, our collective definitions and vision for what learning is and might be change with them. If these distinctions confuse you, maybe stick with the above definition for now. As always, there are always exceptions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

However, if you look at the definition of the word, you’ll find: 1. Assess Your School or District Mark Wise told me about how they assess their entire district with a massive project for eighth-graders. Now, some people think that to say every child is a “genius” is a stretch. Of course, there is!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2021

I picked everyone’s brains and came up with a list of five webtools you definitely must look at: Classcraft. I chatted with my PLN, browsed forums where I knew efriends hung out, and taught a slew of online grad school classes to teachers who always are willing the discuss their newest favorite social studies tech tool.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Yet the change isn’t happening fast enough for many parents and researchers who say the tests remain deeply ingrained in the work of school psychologists, in particular, and that they are still regularly misused to gauge young children’s potential and assess whether they are “worthy” of extra help or investment.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

A few weeks back I passed along an Education Week article to administrators in my District that highlighted the many technology challenges that states anticipate with common tests. When will the powers that be consider the best way to assess learning of content? Supporting National Standards and National assessments?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

We have created common unit assessments, focusing on what we believe to be the most important standards, and we are required to meet and discuss assessment results to evaluate our teaching effectiveness. The reconfiguring and implementation of these two areas—curriculum and assessment—undoubtedly costs money and time.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 10, 2019

As it turns out, there’s no one definitive answer. Choose one definition and esports qualifies as a sport. ” At first glance, this definition seems to back the assertion that esports is not a sport. Most of which clearly bears no resemblance to most definitions of sport. What about competitive video gaming?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

I found what they had to say about formative assessment and their use of technology inspiring, and have included their videos below. A mathematician friend of mine summed it up well when he said, “I have to say the AlphaZero articles left me slack-jawed. What is Formative Assessment? Woot Math in an Algebra 1 Classroom.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 11, 2023

Progress Monitoring : Regularly assessing students’ performance to determine whether interventions are effective or if adjustments need to be made. This can be done through weekly or bi-weekly assessments, observations, or other data collection methods. This helps in identifying students who may need additional supports.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments. They can also take practice assessments using the devices.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Without clear definitions, it can be difficult to pinpoint which skills students are lacking — and to create and assess programs that build those skills. Read the original version here. What about working memory and goal-setting?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Research Articles Debunking Learning Styles Theory For convenience, I divided it into into three main parts: 1. Recommendation against incorporating learning styles assessments in education. Highlighting the difficulty in proving a theory definitively wrong but emphasizing the need for evidence to support classroom application.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

You’d definitely want to check the transcript and show notes for all of these ideas. You’ll definitely want to go to Eric’s website Control Alt Achieve and his YouTube channel. And Eric Curts @ ericcurts from Control Alt Achieve and co-leader of their higher Google Educators group has so many fantastic ideas.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

At the beginning of the 21st century, the definition of digital equity revolved around the provision of a digital device to every student. World Cat is a comprehensive curation of books, CDs, articles, videos, and more available at all libraries in a geographic area or around the world, for all age groups. Books are read online.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2018

Laura: Hyperdocs are basically links that we provide for children to access different websites and articles that we want them to read. They love that it’s just connected to an article right away, so they don’t have to type out and do a Google search for an article, so it’s very hands-on and easy to use for the students.

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Waterford

JUNE 26, 2023

As Candra Morris, Waterford’s Director of Family Partnerships, notes in a recent article , “We must include opportunities to elevate family voices and to involve them in the process to ensure they get what they need.” Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement.”

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In this article, I cover a range of definitions of blended learning and discuss its advantages and disadvantages. Assessment and Feedback Challenges : Designing assessments that effectively measure learning outcomes in both online and face-to-face environments can be challenging.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 18, 2015

Adapted from an article I co-authored, Real-World Ready: Leveraging Digital Tools Digital tools are transforming essential elements of the education space. Increase collaboration : Just as social media has given rise to new definitions of community, digital tools are transforming community and the give-and-take between students and teachers.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 19, 2022

Today’s case in point is an odd article in Insider Higher Ed. “ HyFlex Is Not the Future of Learning ” starts off by complaining about that form of teaching, then becomes a general complaint about online learning. To begin with, the article fails to connect with or even name anyone else’s work on the subject.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Its dictionary definition is well-known, easily understood, and…meaningless, most of the time. Many books, blogs, and articles have been put out on the subject both in and outside the field. Next page: 4 ways to assess trust). What can I do and say to build that trust? The Research Behind Trust.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 14, 2021

Welcome to the second of two articles as I relate the importance of making sure STEM is considered a verb. There are a lot of definitions that relate to STEM education usually in regards to the nouns including Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Read about my 15 ways you can turn STEM from a noun to a verb!

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The Web20Classroom

MAY 10, 2017

This Blended Learning approach is both beneficial but its definition can be tough to nail down. Students need opportunities for collaborating with peers, creating new ideas, and formatively assessing their knowledge, all taking place in the digital environment. Private assessment and gradebook 2.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then, teachers highlight the target words and provide context-related definitions. To measure the effectiveness of the intervention, the researchers assessed comprehension of the target words using a multiple choice test.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2024

How can we assess and understand those strengths across languages to teach more effectively? My kids’ school district offers PebbleGo , which they love because it has a huge selection of books and articles, and because it provides built-in support, such as word definitions and the ability to switch between English and Spanish.

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myViewBoard

JUNE 6, 2022

But we’ve definitely tweaked some of the functionality. One such trial feature is the Assessment tool. The setup process is illustrated below, but the takeaway is you can create simple and straightforward assessments in your lessons right within Classroom. xlsx) to easily upload your assessment quickly and efficiently.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In a sense this could be correct, although it depends on the definition of technology. Doing involves “using tools”, a basic definition of technology. It provides the opportunity for independent learning, self-regulation, formative assessment, and self regulation. Analog tools. Deeper Learning Opportunities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

For purposes of this article, I’m going to work on a binary number video. You can also add audio notes with your voice, but sometimes I want to include a definition or detail. Assess the video. I could “copy it”, which means that if it’s an Edpuzzle, I can use everything that someone else has set up.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Teachers submit Chinese text, and the app transforms it into content with leveled vocabulary that aligns to world standards for Chinese language assessments, such as the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). There’s definitely a lot of source material.

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Linways Technologies

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

What is an Assessment. Assessment is a series of measurements that use various methods and techniques, to collect data on student learning in order to refine teaching programs and improve student learning capabilities. If you are interested in the broader definition, we’re only happy to discuss it with you in the comments.

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