The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2019

Nicole Naditz on episode 478 Standards-based grading — where students are assessed by specific standards — is being discussed or implemented in many districts. Nicole Naditz – Bio as Submitted Nicole has been a Program Specialist in Instructional Technology at San Juan Unified School District since 2018.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 9, 2017

Some point to the essential reductionism of the examination process , questioning the validity of the way that student learning is assessed. Others express concerns that traditional forms of assessment are measuring forms of intelligence and/or competencies that are no longer relevant. DigiExam: the future of assessment?

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 8, 2015

The challenge for me was to design an “assessment” that was meaningful. I had tried everything from the traditional book report style assessment to more creative movie trailers, but I didn’t feel like they accomplished what I wanted from a silent sustained reading assessment. Sans the wine, of course.)

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Why Formative Assessments Matter -I have been a long time advocate for the need to shift our assessment focus from the summative to the formative. In this post from June we look at what formative assessments really are, how they are beneficial and some easy ways to make it happen in the classroom.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The classes are a product of RIFLI’s plan to create a 1:1 classroom computing model that, according to RIFLI’s Director Karisa Tashjian, “blurs the lines between language/content learning and using technology.” Assessment. This is not the case when assessing its students’ digital literacy levels.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 16, 2017

This post will outline the aims of the PYP (the Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate) and the role that technology plays in helping teachers and students to achieve those goals. What does the PYP say about technology? Technology has made these things possible for all teachers. Making the PYP Happen).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The two companies are no strangers: Workbench has been integrated with Google Classroom, which allows educators to assign Workbench projects to students, and track, review and assess their progress. In 2015, it acquired Launchpad Toys , a storytelling tool designed for children to create their own cartoons.

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Evelyn Learning

AUGUST 22, 2023

ASSESSING THE DOWNFALLS Declining Academic Performance: While the U.S. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, we can now cater to individual student needs. Infographic : A flowchart showcasing how adaptive technology identifies students’ proficiency levels and tailors content to match their learning trajectory.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 16, 2018

Greg Smedley Warren @kindersmorgie shares his tips and tricks for using technology in kindergarten. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Engaging Kindergartners with Technology: Augmented Reality, Ipads, QR Codes and More. It should be simple.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

Students also reported being more motivated by audio and video feedback because it was clear and personalized (Voelkel & Mello, 2014; Henderson & Phillips, 2015). Video-based feedback on student assessment: Scarily personal. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology , 31(1). Henderson, M., & Phillips, M.

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eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

This year, many districts are replacing state standardized tests with PARCC or Smarter Balanced, two Common Core-aligned assessments designed to measure college readiness. Schools using PARCC have the option of taking a mid year assessment as a means of monitoring student growth.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 2, 2016

“Technology is just a tool. In my book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers , I describe the many ways in which technology has impacted our traditions, rituals, communication, language, relationships, values, and learning. Below are my top 2015 posts on integrating technology to help you better guide your learners.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Many school districts are now going through a process of determining which pandemic-related practices should be kept, improved, or discarded, and the use of remote and blended learning technologies is frequently being raised during these types of discussions. Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2020

William Horton says it best, "Unless you get instructional design right, technology can only increase the speed and certainty of failure." Below are some lessons we learned after hitting the reset button on our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative in order to get it right that I captured in a 2015 post.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

In a recent discussion, I was asked about “common assessments” in a classroom. The thought here is that no matter what classroom you were in, the assessments would look the same. If I ask students to show that they understand the same objective, does the way we assess truly have to be the same?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The world’s biggest private nonprofit test maker is dipping its toes into the world of education technology investments. ETS is best known for offering assessments like the GRE and TOEFL exams. And ETS contracts with OECD, which creates the global education assessment benchmark test known as PISA. With more than $1.3

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As you might know there are some amazing formative assessment tools on the web. STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have done 100?s

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

million grant from the Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation, GlassLab aimed to prove that educational games could be just as fun as their mainstream titles, and serve as reliable formative assessment tools. The first word in GlassLab’s name stands for games, learning and assessment). Launched in 2012 with a three-year, $10.2

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

With a wealth of leadership experience in the education technology industry, Hedrick will lead the 40-plus-year science company as it continues to grow as a values-aligned Perpetual Purpose Trust dedicated to helping educators build a science literate society. Hedrick is the third CEO in Vernier Science Education’s 40-plus-year history.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

We have so many great opportunities in our area, including Exxon Mobil, Lamar University, and Lamar Institute of Technology right in our own backyard. Like all districts in Texas, we live and die through accountability ratings based on how our students perform on the state’s STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) tests.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 20, 2020

Now educators can make their instruction more effective and provide practice linked directly to progress monitoring and formative assessment results using free digital tools from Microsoft. The creation of assessments and their implementation can all be integrated through the use of Microsoft Teams.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” Seriously, this platform has the potential to revolutionize how educators like us interact with technology. Starting with the Hub’s landing page: those 25 core apps are like the Swiss Army knives of the educational technology world. If you’re familiar with the research by van der Kleij et al. Feskens, R.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2015

note : This year the editors selected ten stories we believe either highlighted an important issue in 2015 and/or signaled the beginning of an escalating trend or issue for 2016 (look for No. I teach graduate level courses about educational technology, such as Online Tools for Teaching and Learning. You don’t have any tests.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Ever since taking the helm as CEO in 2015, Marten Roorda says ACT has closed 10 deals in which it has invested in, acquired or formed strategic partnerships with educational companies. Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

Bencivenga, who will be coaching entrepreneurs on acquisitions at EdSurge Immersion NYC in September, founded DataCation (later named CaseNEX DataCation) in 2007, and made his first acquisition in 2011, buying the assessment business DataDriven Classroom. CaseNEX DataCation bought Pals, a reading assessment platform, in 2012.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

Top EdTechTeacher Blogs of 2015. How can we craft learning environments that take advantage of technology to help students become independent, engaged, and reflective of their work? Having technology is just one important piece. Having technology is just one important piece. Knowing how … Read more.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2017

Across the country, educators and policy makers are searching for ways to develop and implement innovative assessment programs to address accountability requirements and to reform instruction. As both local and state educators consider new assessment models, they find themselves coming up against many issues of time.

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Doug Levin

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

K-8 Market (2015-16 School Year). The top line finding is eye-opening: The 2015-16 school year will mark the first time that the majority of state mandated summative testing in U.S. elementary and middle schools will be administered via technology and not in a paper and pencil format.

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Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducted a study on the correlation between test performance and technology usage in the classroom. In the last quarter of 2015, they released their findings in “ Students Computers and Learning: Making the Connection”. Digitally Mature Leaders .

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

A few weeks ago, the VILS team published a guide to successful technology integration that highlights six elements for success that we’ve learned from working with the many schools in our networks. Greater interest and investments at the edge of education innovation (e.g.,

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

5) As for O’Byrne and Pytash (2015), the terms blended learning, hybrid learning, and mixed-mode learning are all terms that are used interchangeably to refer to “a pedagogical approach that combines face-to-face (F2F) instruction with computer-mediated instruction” (p.

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Tom Murray

APRIL 22, 2016

In December of 2015, on the same day that President Obama signed the “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA), the U.S. Department of Education released the 2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP). One major theme of the plan discussed in the webinar, is the need to move from passive to active use with technology.

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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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 28, 2015

STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Share My Lesson.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Alan November, Edtech commentator and former school technology director. But as educators and edtech companies look to track the most effective tools and practices, two big questions are at the fore: How do we measure technology’s effectiveness? Multiple choice tests and high-stakes assessment had few fans at ISTE.

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