Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers. This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. 2011, Nurmi et al., Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. Plagiarism-detection software can address the most pressing needs of classroom educators faced with assessing students’ written work. The Challenge: When identifying plagiarism, teachers need to be confident in their assessment.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Please feel free to comment if you believe I’ve missed a key document or piece of crucial information, or if you have a question regarding the context of a specific statement or document. In any case, do not be surprised if I periodically return to this post to update or add key facts and documents.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

history class, students are given a document-based question on John Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government (1690). Tier II support is the first layer of additional support when assessments indicate students need remediation of skills to become proficient, independent learners.) In a high school U.S. In the U.S.

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UDL Personalized Learning Chromebook Assessment 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

A seminal 2011 paper established the so-called “Google effect,” our tendency to forget information that we can easily look up on the internet. Then, in a series of experiments, they documented how university students were less likely to recall these facts when they thought they had saved them in a computer file for future reference.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

My appointment came at a time when 77 percent of McComb’s kindergarteners had not met the required performance on the state’s kindergarten readiness assessment. They wanted student-centered teaching and learning environments where success would be determined by growth rather than state assessment proficiency or seat time.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The advent of interactive large format displays further expands the options for achieving the documented benefits delivered by this transformative classroom technology. Among their many features and benefits, IWBs offer the following: Teacher-directed viewing of any website, app, video or document to support learning objectives.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A deepened relationship with the Danielson Group , pioneers in advancing the principles of the Framework for Teaching, now provides Frontline the ability to offer Professional Growth clients the new 2022 Rubric and training content with assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

More than a dozen studies have documented that students, on average, made sluggish progress in reading during the pandemic. For the same reasons that many low-income students struggled to learn remotely during the pandemic, it was also hard, if not impossible, for students to take an online assessment of their progress. In 2016, U.S.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Here are a few ideas for items that you could include on the document: Strengths and weaknesses. 14] Also set a few student goals for the upcoming semester during the meeting to involve parents in the assessment process.[8]. To Involve Parents in the Assessment of the Child in Parent–Teacher Conferences: A Case Study.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

He also shares how the district uses case management technology to track these interventions, support clinicians and help assess when students need help—and when they don't. We've been offering EBT interventions as part of that model since the 2011-2012 school year. EdSurge: Tell us about your Evidence-Based Treatment interventions.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Notes from a breakout session at TCEA 2011 Google Academy A Day in the Life - Google Apps for Teachers Julia Stiglitz - Business Development Manager Google Apps for Education 50 Ways to Use Google Apps in the Classroom - Great presentation with links to many of the examples! google google academy google apps tcea tcea 2011'

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Social learning spaces “provide a place for students to interact with their peers…and take command over their own learning” (Matthews, Andrews & Adams, 2011). Encourage self-assessment. Teachers can bring multiple students together for shared tasks on documents, slide decks, drawings, or spreadsheets.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 28, 2015

We started in 2011 with the first all-iPad education conference in the country. Assessment: The iPad used as a tool to assess student performance in a variety of ways to include formative, summative, objective, and subjective elements. This will be the forth year for the conference. and several countries outside of it!

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Starting in December 2011, she began using Edmodo, an online platform that enables innovative and social learning, as a way to share online videos and content on the relevant topic for her students to view and assign online polls for her students to complete in order to foster discussion on the topic the next day.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 4, 2015

The whole conversation brought me back a blog post I wrote following ISTE’s 2011 conference in Philadelphia. In the years since 2011, I’ve seen librarians emerge to assume roles of increasing leadership in so many areas. But it wasn’t only that conversation that got me thinking. But a few issues continued to bug me.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The alternative diploma, attained through the LEAP Alternate Assessment, Level 1 (LAA1) graduation pathway, allows students with severe disabilities to forgo typical academic expectations and requirements, and it doesn’t end with the high school diploma. The document simply says, “No grade.”.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 19, 2020

provides this great document ( you can see the version with live links here ) for things to consider for teaching in 2020. There are so many great resources and ideas shared in this document, but this especially resonated: Don’t change your expectations, change your approach. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.,

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The Principal of Change

MAY 28, 2017

As many schools are moving towards comprehensive reporting, sharing with students through thorough comments and assessments what they have learned, many students still ask, “What’s my grade?”, I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient. Louisiana had long erred on the side of social promotion, often passing underachievers through school despite low reading and math levels.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 123

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The transition started back in 2011, when Chicago International Charter School (CICS), a charter school network focused on college preparation, hired Distinctive Schools (a school management organization) to redesign and manage four of its 14 schools. In the pilot, teachers meet with students once a week to discuss progress in classes.

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MindShift

APRIL 17, 2018

Research confirms that in order for ELLs to acquire English they must engage in oral language practice and be given the opportunity to use language in meaningful ways for social and academic purposes (Williams & Roberts, 2011). can increase engagement for students and the teacher! We then post Figure 30.2

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MindShift

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Studies show that the best predictor of STEM career choice in adulthood is linked to whether kids self-report seeing themselves as scientists when they grow up by 8th grade (Maltese & Tai, 2011). Assessment is real time and authentic. Ownership is given to the learner, while the teacher serves as facilitator. Benefit No.

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Education STEM Assessment Report 28

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A 2011 study by University of Massachusetts researchers had also found standardized test-score gains by students in two EL schools in Rochester, New York, compared with peers in other city schools.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Report 111

Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Pick and play games for intentional moments in the classroom, such formative assessment, differentiated instruction, and reflection to name a few. Student Digital Portfolios - Rethinking Assessment Using Google and iPads by Holly Clark This session discussed the importance of student-created digital portfolios.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2015

If you’re looking for a longer definition, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) defines it this way: Close, analytic reading stresses engaging with a text of sufficient complexity directly and examining meaning thoroughly and methodically, encouraging students to read and reread deliberately.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I have been working with ASCD for the past few years to publish my book, Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons. Assessing One’s Progress How am I doing with my maker project? It has finally been released for sale! I need to know more about how to do this part of my project.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Back in 2011, I was getting my feet wet with blended learning and experimenting with new pedagogical practices in my geography class. I used traditional grading practices, assessing student progress through quizzes, tests, project, midterms and finals each year. Learning journey for 8th grade geography built on Piktochart in 2011.

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Learning Personalized Learning Blended Learning Course 148

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. DeLorenzo screened the candidates, assessing their capacity for change, and six districts were approved , among them the three districts mentioned above that had already begun experimenting with the model.

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Learning Report System Case Study 111

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

We are focusing primarily on communication—both delivering it and managing it—rather than learning or assessment techniques. If you don’t have enough of it, teaching and assessment won’t even be possible, let alone optimized. Formally measuring and assessing learning should not necessarily be a priority during this phase.

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Hapara

JANUARY 28, 2022

It takes away the need to navigate to various websites and apps and search their Google Drive for important academic documents, and puts everything in one single dashboard. A key role of ERLC is to facilitate the effective implementation of curricula, including instruction, assessment, and student learning outcomes. Wayne Poncia, CEO.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 25, 2020

How about document achievements, encourage progress, enable self-assessment and self-correction that is immediate and personal, and provide broader definitions of academic success to families and communities. This post was originally written by Terry Heick in 2011 and updated in 2020.

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EdTechSandyK

JANUARY 16, 2014

If you''ve never had the chance to learn directly from Alan November before, I encourage you to watch this TEDxNYED Talk he gave in 2011. link] Student self-assessment/self-grading/control over their own learning What does life-long learning look like? Learn how to assess. They have to understand how to assess information.

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Insight Education Group

JUNE 14, 2017

Atul Gawande, an acclaimed surgeon and research scientist, wrote in a 2011 New Yorker article , “Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.”. We must teach them to seek information from multiple sources and assess that information for its validity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

State officials at the highest levels have been aware of these problems for years and have repeatedly failed to fix them, according to internal documents. Tennessee’s VR office has long struggled to serve its clients effectively, federal documents show. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. That to me speaks volumes.”.

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