Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 29, 2016

One of the participants, Charlotte Thornton (@cthornto) , shares her Google secrets and some assessment tips below. — Shelly Sanchez (@ShellTerrell) June 28, 2016. ebook, Learning to Go , which has digital/mobile activities for any device and editable/printable handouts and rubrics. 5JQbcL6jNG. Enjoyed this post?

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

2016 is now well underway, but few could say how it will end or what major changes we’ll see as the year unfurls. In 2016, I believe we will see more learners creating, making, programming, coding, producing, innovating, inventing, designing, problem solving and publishing. Mobile learning. GoConqr Click To Tweet.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

The Colorado-based company was formed in 2016 from the merger of two existing organizations: Digital Directions International (est. Lessons are aligned to ELA standards and include at-home extensions that families can use. Ruvna : Mobile-based software that teachers and adminstrators can use to locate students during emergencies.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Promethean, a global provider of educational technology solutions, introduced its new ActivPanel interactive display at ISTE 2016 in Denver. The new Promethean ActivPanel features wireless and BlueTooth® connectivity, pre-loaded applications for mobile device mirroring, digital whiteboarding, and free collaboration software from ClassFlow.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2020

Our diverse student population has a high mobility rate based on family financial and employment situations, so a number of our students move from school to school during the year. To gather the data to support this approach, we began using Renaissance Star Assessments districtwide in the 2015–2016 school year.

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Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 20, 2016

She also likes mobile, but not because of its affordances; instead, she finds that that’s where her students prefer to work. “So many students are using their phones the majority of time. Is that early adopter practice in 2016, or has it become the mainstream? She feeds these into a YouTube channel .

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

The site eMarketer found that 41% of students ages 0-11 and 84% ages 12-17 owned a smartphone in 2016. Access to mobile devices that connect learners and educators to the vast resources of the Internet and facilitate communication and collaboration. These numbers are predicted to increase to 49.7% respectively by 2020.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Educators and legislators must remember that the key to closing the poverty gap in this country and alleviating citizen need for social services is educational attainment , which opens the door to social and economic mobility through employment. With an undeniably large number of U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Our diverse student population has a high mobility rate based on family financial and employment situations, so a number of our students move from school to school during the year. To gather the data to support this approach, we began using Renaissance Star Assessments districtwide in the 2015–2016 school year.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. These assessments might be used to engage learners in discussion before an inquiry.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

CliftonStrengths Assessment is one resource to find out what you (or another person) have as greatest strengths that sets you apart from everyone else. Most notably, in a study where mentors underestimated their abilities, these humble mentors were given the absolute highest ratings by the mentees (Johnson, 2016, p.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The purpose of critical thinking is to inform our behaviours, actions, decisions and to "improve our ability to reason and generate strong arguments" (Hanscomb, 2016, p. 4- Evaluating Critical thinkers assess information against multiple criteria and never take propositions for granted. Critical analysts are sharp observers.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 29, 2016

January 29, 2016 A few weeks ago we started a series of EdTech Charts featuring some of the best educational web tools and mobile applications to help teachers better integrate technology in their.read more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Updated: February 5, 2016. 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. 10 Tools for Assessment for Google Apps on the iPad. 2016, January).

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., Sean Duffy (@dearmrduffy) September 23, 2016. rdaley0001 (@rdaley98) September 22, 2016. Joseph South (@southjoseph) September 22, 2016.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 11, 2015

Today I introduce a new web browser based tool called imakiku , which is sure to enhance formative assessment in your classroom. It is specifically optimized for these mobile devices. For readers of A Principal's Reflections the trial is free until 3/31/2016 by using a special code.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

This new approach is fueled by trends that have impacted academic publishing over the past decade, including: The Rental Market: Companies like Wiley report textbook rental as the major cause for their recent 27% revenue decline in their Q3 (compared to 2016). in the fall of 2016.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

In 2016, Strava users uploaded 304 million activities , logged 6.8 I realized that I was recording hours of deliberate practice (my early morning runs), formative assessments (the occasional speed workout on the track) and even a few summative assessments (races) on the app. billion kilometers, and gave each other 1.3

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

When she became principal in 2011, the Title I school had a 40 percent mobility rate, attendance rates were low and less than a third of students were meeting state standards. In 2016, the U.S. So in 2012, we needed a resource that teachers could use to better prepare students in third, fourth and fifth grades for state assessments.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When there’s a need for information or new skills, employees today are increasingly turning to instantly accessible sources such as search engines and online course libraries available on their mobile devices. employers spent nearly $71 billion on training in 2016—a figure that was flat compared to 2015. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. And it has.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Our founding sponsor International Education Resources Network (IEARN) will continue to support us for the 2016 Global Education Conference. Contact Steve Hargadon (steve@hargadon.com) about opportunities to get involved with our community. See our other sponsors, supporters, and partners on the conference website.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

For example, Denise Maduli-Williams, a faculty member at San Diego Mesa College, sends mobile, motivational video messages to her students via Twitter and Instagram. When students learn online, technology is the medium used to create content, assess learning, and foster interpersonal communications.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

There are also bootcamps, internship marketplaces, career placement technology companies, employment assessment companies, and dozens of other category-creating models aimed at paving the last mile between college and employment or otherwise providing retraining for those looking to change careers. Census Bureau 2016; U.S.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 8, 2016

Organize and map the core curriculum, resources, and assessments the district is currently utilizing. Assess and understand current infrastructure and broadband capabilities. Assess utilization rates and strategize the vision. Estimate total cost of ownership, predict refresh cycles, and determine what will be sustainable.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Did you know more than 80% of internet and mobile audiences watched more live-videos in 2016 as compared to 2015, and streaming video accounts for more than two-thirds of all internet traffic and is expected to jump to 82% by 2020? Kitaboo is a cloud-based content platform to create-publish-distribute interactive mobile-ready content.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In South Africa, the youth unemployment rate topped 50 percent in 2016. To that point, several teams are building solutions for “feature phones,” mobile devices that can connect to the internet but have limited storage and support for third-party apps. Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Kenzie Academy CEO and co-founder, Chok Leang Ooi To ensure they are ready for that rigor, applicants must pass an attitude and aptitude assessment prior to acceptance. “We The company boasts a 90 percent job placement rate for graduates, at companies including Angie’s List, Crafted, DMI, Ford Mobility, Tangoe and Zylo.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

She oversees all content areas, curriculum, instructional practices and assessment, working alongside the district’s Superintendent and Chief Academic Officer to engage school leaders and teachers. Cameron Berube, who began serving as Director of Curriculum and Instruction in 2015, was part of the design team to move the district toward PL.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 3, 2019

The new affordances of mobile computing devices and online environments allow the first three shifts mentioned here to move into high gear. One of the big problems schools are facing is that most agree on the importance of these skills, but we struggle in how the development of these skills should be assessed.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales. public high schools (42.5

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales. public high schools (42.5

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2016

New engagement platform uses web and mobile-based technology to help students and their parents navigate K-12 challenges. Bozza, Executive Director of the NJASA will formally announce the partnership and program at the upcoming Techspo 2016 conference in Atlantic City, January 28-29. Dr. Richard G. Mental Health Issues.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services. The company recently launched a mobile app that allows teachers to snap photos of student’s work incorporate them into MasteryConnect’s platform. billion in U.S.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 29, 2018

In the 2016/2017 school year, students as a whole increased from 59% to 66% in math proficiency. Not only does the district have a high mobility rate due to almost half of its population being in the military, but they also serve a high number of ELLs. Clay Spring Elementary (Florida).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. That’s good. Open Curriculum. Free Tuition.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

. - Mark Nichols, Digital Promise Fellow Engaging K-12 Students in Meaningful Global Discussions with WorldVuze - Julia Coburn, Executive Director and Co-Founder of WorldVuz Global Learning: Exploring the World After School - Mary Grenz Jalloh, Director Students Investigate Culture Through Ethnography and Mobile Devices - Harry G Tuttle, Ed.

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