eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2015

Homegrown online assessments prove invaluable to one district. Assessments are critical to our efforts to improve instruction in K-12 education. At Hopewell Valley Regional School District (HVRSD), we began the transition to online assessment more than three years ago. Online assessment saves teachers’ time.

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Online Assessments Assessment Common Core Data 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I polled my PLN to find specific tech areas students needed help with in preparing for the Assessments. Pay attention to these and your students will be much more prepared for this Spring’s Common Core assessments: Keyboarding. And typing on an IPad virtual keyboard is not the same. Common Core requires this.

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Common Core How To Assessment iPad 150

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core.

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Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. Students rebel by learning the powerful ways authors convey meaning and affect their audience.

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Robotics Chromebook Edmentum Mobility 41

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

That means new teachers must learn how to teach science, technology, engineering and math on-the-job. Many schools now provide digital devices for students, often a Chromebook or an iPad. New teachers need to learn rudimentary tech troubleshooting like these 25 common problems , and then teach them to students.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Chromebook iPad 150

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. These assessments might be used to engage learners in discussion before an inquiry.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.”

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