EdTech4Beginners

JUNE 19, 2016

Assessment for Learning (AfL) is the process of finding out how much progress students have made in their learning and then planning next steps for them. What does successful AfL look like? Strategies to ‘see’ the progress of learners are vital in lessons – constant checking of who is excelling and who is struggling. Once this information is acquired, it is important to do something with it i.e. instant feedback or a challenge for the next lesson.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 19, 2016

David Freedman said: The College Board has suggested a “college readiness benchmark” that works out to roughly 500 on each portion of the SAT as a score below which students are not likely to achieve at least a B-minus average at “a four-year college” – presumably an average one. How many high-school students are capable of meeting the College Board benchmark?

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Battelle for Kids

JUNE 19, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 5, Number 7. Driving Question: How Does Deeper Learning Connect the Real Work World and STEM Education? The fastest growing career fields in our country's changing economy are geared towards science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). However, for many young people, particularly women and students of color, STEM fields are still out of reach.

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The Jose Vilson

JUNE 19, 2016

A few weeks ago, I attended my son’s prospective school’s fundraising fair in their backyard. They had the standards: a bouncy house, a ball toss, a face-painting station, and a plastic frog pond. They also had some unique features: a DJ that played Black music standards like Shalamar, Michael Jackson, and James Brown, a raffle for a dinner voucher at Sylvia’s, a principal in a smock running around with the kids and parents in a playful manner.

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Teacher Tech

JUNE 19, 2016

Google Keep- Love at First Sight Guest Blog post by Rayna Freedman (@rlfreedm) Digital PostIts I fell in love with Google Keep at first sight. Once I saw the color-coded notes, reminders, labels (think hashtags), and image upload capability my head began swirling with possibilities for my 5th-grade students. What a great tool to help […]. The post Google Keep: Lit Circles appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

JUNE 19, 2016

Individual teachers across the world who are flipping their classes, are often working in isolation and small pockets. However, as the movement has grown, there is an increasing need to think systemically about how to scale flipped learning. . I believe three systems need to change for flipped learning to flourish on a large scale in a school or district: technological systems, pedagogical systems, and evaluation methodologies.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 19, 2016

June 19, 2016 This is a quick post to share with you this interesting find from ICTEvangelist. Mark Anderson has recently published the second version of his popular periodic table of iPad.read more.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 19, 2016

The Northwest Evaluation Association today announced plans to enter the high-profile and high-stakes state accountability testing market by launching a new “States Solutions” division. Primarily known for its Measures of Academic Progress test—an interim assessment taken by students across the U.S.—the nonprofit NWEA is diving into the more turbulent, and potentially lucrative waters of summative assessments.

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My Paperless Classroom

JUNE 19, 2016

Learn how to use these great Google Apps for Education tools at this years ISTE Conference | TeacherCast.net. The post TeacherCast Top 14 Ways To Use Google Apps While Attending The #ISTE Conference appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 19, 2016

What makes Twitter unique is that unlike some other social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat, which are generally designed to stay connected with those you know face-to-face, Twitter is a place where one goes to connect with others with whom you may have never met, but share an idea, passion, or interest. People on Twitter, or Tweeps, can find each other using a specific hashtag, or perhaps they are all fans of a celebrity or a product.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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MiddleWeb

JUNE 19, 2016

Mike Fisher, a middle grades teacher turned literacy and tech integration consultant, suggests ways parents can involve their kids in reading and writing throughout the summer months, on their own and with family members. At his house, it's Harry Potter time!

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EmergingEdTech

JUNE 19, 2016

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week … check out how a teacher puts together. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 19, 2016

Using 30 second video reflections has become one of my favourite ways to share on Twitter. There are a few reasons why I see this as powerful: It forces you to focus on what you are wanting to share because of the 30 second time limit. You become more conscientious of what you are going to share because you know that anyone in the world can see it.

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techlearning

JUNE 19, 2016

Most kids will find this arts-meets-math creation tool engaging (and silly), and coordinating lessons support learning.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Adam Welcome

JUNE 19, 2016

I think we need an Education Drill Team - let me explain. via GIPHY The more I read, the more I watch, the more I hear from other educators around the country and world - the more I realize we're all kind of on different pages. We may be reading the same book, or even the same series, but we're really not in sync as an education community. Some districts focus on these initiatives, some focus on others - some have 1:1 in their schools, some technology/innovation isn't even talked about - some ha

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techlearning

JUNE 19, 2016

They have fascinating resources available on their website, including their Bird Guide and the popular Bird Cams.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 19, 2016

June 19, 2016 The visual below is based on a post we shared here a few days ago. It features a number of important Chrome extensions to help students research during the different stages in a.read more.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 19, 2016

For technology to have an effective impact on student learning a solid pedagogical foundation needs to be in place. In my mind, pedagogy trumps technology and the importance of instructional design cannot be overstated. With this foundation in place the possibilities to empower students to take ownership over their learning and demonstrate conceptual mastery are limitless.

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