Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 24, 2015

For the last two years, I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the traditional approach to assessing students and reporting grades. This year I decided to overhaul my gradebook and assess students based on their mastery of particular skills, also referred to as standards-based grading. Redesigning My Gradebook. 4 = advanced.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Throughout this series, we have delved into the characteristics of 21st-century teachers, students, classrooms, and the very nature of learning itself. They understand how to navigate group dynamics, allocate tasks based on individual strengths, and reach consensus while valuing diverse perspectives.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Collaboration transcends classroom boundaries, involving a myriad of stakeholders – colleagues, students, parents, and the broader educational community. In my experience, these connections don’t just bring new ideas and perspectives to the classroom; they also offer support and inspiration from a global teaching community.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Performance assessments that integrate evidence of teaching practices and student learning measured in a variety of ways (such as student work, lesson plans, assignments, in-person or video observations based on standards, and/or National Board assessment). 2008): Successful Collaboration.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2022

The Company’s integrated learning platform empowers teachers by offering easy lesson creation, ready-to-use formative assessments, and personalized, data-driven recommendations from a library of educational resources. Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”). Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

Over the last few years my classroom has gotten a lot of attention. I came to the Cobb County School District in 2006. Our classrooms were chaotic—everyone sitting in disarray. Defeat was built into the expectations of the special education classroom, and it was hard for me to see any viable escape.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

Here’s what I’m using all the time in my classroom right now. 36 Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life. She also has a Technology Jump Start Course with 8 modules to help get you comfortable with technology in the classroom.) Haiku Learning is the tool I use to blend my classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

In some places, principals and administrators consider themselves well-equipped to assess research claims, ignore the bunk and choose promising products. They don’t have the skills to assess whether promising findings with one group of students may realistically translate to their own buildings.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2013

His most recent books are Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know, 6th Ed. In 1968, Dr. Popham established IOX Assessment Associates, an R&D group that formerly created statewide student achievement tests for a dozen states. He is inordinately compulsive. It is really dull reading.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

And then when they’re in class with the teacher, the teacher can work with one student or a group of students or even the whole class — depending upon what they’re trying to get at — to help them better internalize the direct instruction they’ve been watching. The essential element is one-to-one computing. Doug: Yeah.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2020

Two months after the COVID-19 crisis forced educators across the United States to leave their classrooms and start teaching online, the scope of the changes and challenges have now become clear, and educational leaders have started to identify what’s working and what still needs improvement. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 25, 2016

Anxiety disorders are some of the most common disorders to affect children (McLoone, Hudson, & Rapee, 2006). In addition, there is a high degree of comorbidity with anxiety, meaning the diagnosis of other disorders, such as ADHD in conjunction with an anxiety disorder (McLoone, Hudson, & Rapee, 2006, p.

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N2Y

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In 2006, President George W. Modeling is when the well-prepared teacher presents a new procedure or concept to a group of students by showing and explaining. Modeling is not reserved for the large-group setting. Many special education teachers use modeling in small groups to introduce a new concept.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

” In other words, this is meant as a learning technique, not for assessment. Cepeda et al (2006) reviewed 254 studies, and found that students across studies recalled 10 percent more information after spaced study than after massed (all at one time) study. They can be easily implemented in the classroom, and by students at home.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. The latest, MEDSKL , aims to provide comprehensive medical content for use inside and outside the classroom. MRU courses also include discussion forums and practice assessments.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 28, 2019

Back in 2006, my students created a podcast, “Miss Bell’s Chime Time!” Chris and I chat about the power of podcasting in the classroom and how easy it is to get started. 06:43] – He also plans on producing the Infused Classroom Podcast. [07:08] How to Get Started Podcasting in the Classroom. [20:25]

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I pointed out that one of the key technologies for the future would be the World Wide Web (I was of course unaware at the time just how vital it would become) and that managed (virtual) learning environments would become a useful means of organising and supporting online learning for large groups of distributed learners. London: Kogan Page.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 4, 2017

Having been involved in leading the Google Teacher Academy from its inception in 2006, EdTechTeam was responsible for managing the revamped Google for Education Innovation Academy in 2016… and also helped to organize and fund the free 10 year anniversary celebrations in Sydney, London, New York, and Mountain View.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. In one of the first studies of its kind to show specific links between spatial and mathematical skills, Cheng and Mix (2013) assessed children in both spatial and math skills.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

I went on to suggest that teachers needed to modify their classroom management, curriculum design, resources development, assessment and evaluation methods and communication techniques, if they were to remain effective and responsive practitioners. 2006) E-Learning Groups and Communities. and Moonen, J. and Wheeler, S.

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MindShift

MAY 14, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and measure progress with tests.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

While higher education advertising has historically been dominated by for-profit providers such as the University of Phoenix, spending by those schools began to flatten out or fall in the mid-2010s while advertising spending by public and private nonprofit universities began to rise , another analysis, by the Educational Marketing Group, found.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Reid emphasized the importance of listening and grounding equity work in the voices of the students and other community members, and also making sure achieving educational and racial justice is a process of removing barriers for all students, rather than taking something from one group and giving it to another.

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Learning With Lucie

AUGUST 18, 2016

This week I got a chance to attend a meeting lead by Lars Hasselblad Torres, Director of the Generator as he kicked off a collaboration project between Burlington's makerspace the Generator, area schools, and Champlain College to help educators vision how MAKING can support Project Based Learning in their classrooms.

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MindShift

MARCH 23, 2017

Department of Education conducted between 2000 and 2006, which followed about 10,700 children born in low-income households in 2000. ” They were also more likely to be hyperactive and throw tantrums in the classroom. They do not catch up,” says Anna Johnson , a psychologist and an author of the new study.

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MindShift

MAY 23, 2016

A group of young women who had graduated from high school between 1997 and 2006 sat at the front of the room crying and laughing about their experiences learning math at Railside High (a research pseudonym for the school). Each student in the group has a role: team captain, resource manager, recorder-reporter and facilitator.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2012

Affiliated with the Learning and Collaborative Technologies Group, Institute for Information Technology, Downes specializes in the fields of online learning, new media, pedagogy and philosophy. psid=2012-08-08.0905.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Via the AP : “A South Carolina solicitor says a sheriff’s deputy will face no charges for tossing a student across a classroom after she refused to put away her cellphone.” Testing, Testing… “Big changes ahead for how California assesses school performance,” KPCC reports. This is a great headline.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2012

Tom Greaves, The Greaves Group www.projectred.org Project Red - large scale research project funded by Pearson and Intel; Collected data from over 1000 schools around the country and looked at 136 variables. Assessments for Learning IV. Practical examples are needed; show what it looks like in a classroom.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

How do we best help them to understand the value of new technology and how it might benefit their students lives (rather than how might it help my fit into their classroom). Attention When we relate the relevance of using emergent technology in the classroom we must describe how adoption is advantageous.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 5, 2010

In her dual role at ESR she oversees production of publications and marketing/communications strategies as well as providing direct professional development services on whole school reform, classroom management, school climate and culture, and advisory development and implementation.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. ” BYOD programs allow students to use their own technology (usually smartphone or tablet) in a classroom. Flipped Classroom.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Coaches of all sports have done this for decades; why is it still so rare in classrooms?). However, when you moved to the small-group exercise using the ‘mystery text’, I saw such off-task behavior in only 1 student.” This is really what makes any assessment truly “formative” in education. Actionable information. Hodder Murray.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

But DeVos “believes that technology has a role to play in the classroom,” Edsurge writes in response to the confirmation , which I guess means ed-tech can overlook all of her horrible beliefs that further educational inequalities as long as it means more people buy digital things and hire Edsurge to facilitate that process. .”

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Knowledge can be created by the individual through reflection or developed through interaction at the intra- or inter-group levels. Once created, individual, groups, departments, or the organization can control the dissemination and access to a larger number of people. Individual content knowledge: Resume and portfolio of work.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

In Rachael McIlvaine’s eighth-grade science class at West Middle School here, a chatty but focused group of three takes turns closing their eyes, dipping a plastic spoon into a foil roasting pan and fishing for M&M’s, trying to capture as much candy as they can. Insulating the classroom. KANSAS CITY, Kan. — million in 2001.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2006 I described and recommended the community-based model to support sustainable OER-based pedagogy. His focus has been on traditional institutions of learning and the traditional classroom model. Is it the improvements we’ve made to the IMathAS quantitative assessment platform? Others don’t.

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