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Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

edWeb.net

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

Assessment. Online Assessment with Google Forms – this document gives walk throughs for Flubaroo and other tools to help you assess using Google Forms. Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments. 2015 – New Google Classroom Features. Sue Gorman’s Getting Googley Resource.

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Surge in Chromebook Adoption Leads to Increasing Need to Keep Students Safe    

Gaggle Speaks

For instance, there’s been a 52% growth in Chromebook usage for students in grades 6-8 and a 100% increase at high schools since 2015. Student access to Chromebooks has increased dramatically in schools nationwide over the past two years. Is Your School Using G Suite for Education?

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How to Prepare Students for PARCC/SBACC Tests

Ask a Tech Teacher

A good idea is to have students take some online assessments prior to this summative one. This is a reprint of an article I posted last Spring. They’re long tests with lots of keyboarding and other tech skills. Make sure students have practiced working at computers for extended periods. Problem Solving.

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Global K-12 Market for Personal PCs to Contract in 2016, Experts Project

Marketplace K-12

The total volume of PC sales in that market fell by 12 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015, despite solid numbers in the U.S. percent in all of 2015 and only 0.2 market from 6 percent of the total shipments of non-desktop PC devices in 2015 to 18 percent in 2017. million shipments from 5.7

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Top Web Links, Tweets & Instagram Posts from 2016

Learning in Hand

It looks like 2016 was the year of online assessment tools. My most popular tweet and post featured 15 formative assessment tools. Check out my top links and posts from 2015 and from 2014 for more awesome tips, tools, ideas, and resources. This means I can easily see the most popular links I shared during 2016.

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Desmos Passes the Smarter Balanced Test (and Hopes to Save Math Students $100)

Edsurge

For schools that already provide computers for online assessments, Luberoff contends it’s unreasonable to require students—particularly those from low-income communities—to fork out $100 to buy a graphing calculator just to take a math test. Even Smarter Balanced stands to benefit from the partnership.

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