Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

Required reading: Data breach disclosure 101: How to succeed after you’ve failed via Troy Hunt.). The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Research continues to provide further evidence that the conventional wisdom about learning styles should be rejected by educators and students alike (Kirschner, 2017; Husmann & O'Loughlin, 2018; Riener & Willingham, 2010). There is little scientific support for this fashionable idea—and stronger evidence for other learning strategies.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

This leads to a false assessment of their own skills and abilities and builds up a false perception. Reflect on where you are with the learning walk process and how to make it a success. How to give and receive 
feedback effectively. 2017 Dec;13(4):327-333. So why does this matter in the larger scheme of things?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. TpT 2017 Conference Observations. million teachers buying or selling over 2.7

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2023

The 2017 Clovis, New Mexico Library Shootings: The Teenage Attacker Reveals His Motives Part of the Library 2.0 On August 28, 2017, he walked into the Clovis-Carver Library, in downtown Clovis, New Mexico, went into the public restroom and loaded a pistol he had stolen from his father’s unlocked gun safe at home. in English, and a B.S.

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Waterford

MARCH 3, 2020

11] If you don’t currently teach your students specifically how to listen, it may be time to add activities to your curriculum that strengthen this skill. The Benefits of Teaching Students How to Listen. Learning how to listen can also teach students how to communicate their ideas.[14] Improved relationship skills.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 11, 2017

The post How to Easily Assess Student Writing in Google Docs appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Assess Student Writing in Google Docs with WriQ. WriQ is currently a FREE tool that helps teachers assess writing in Google Docs. Learn all you need to know about the trainer assessment and application! Enroll Now!

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 25, 2021

The post 4 Projects that Go Beyond Traditional Assessment – SULS0111 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Jen shares ideas that will help teachers go BEYOND traditional assessments like reports, essays, presentations, and cookie-cutter assignments. 4 Projects that Go Beyond Traditional Assessment with @virtualgiff.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this episode of the Microsoft Innovative Educator, Spotlight Series Podcast, we speak with Principal Product Manager Mike Tholfsen from the Microsoft Education Team about his favorite moments from 2017. The post Looking Back at 2017 and reflecting on amazing moments with Microsoft Education appeared first on TeacherCast.

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My Paperless Classroom

JANUARY 1, 2018

In this episode of the Microsoft Innovative Educator, Spotlight Series Podcast, we speak with Principal Product Manager Mike Tholfsen from the Microsoft Education Team about his favorite moments from 2017. Best of 2017. Mike – Closing the Gap, 2017 and AssistiveTech, Special Needs. Best Moment at a Conference.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2021

In classrooms where students are told what to do and how to do each task, they may not have the opportunity to develop the initiative, resourcefulness, and persistence needed to develop their ability to self-regulate (Zimmerman & Moylan, 2009). Supporting Self-regulation in Blended Learning Environments. Zeidner (Eds.), Zimmerman, B.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Those days are over: 2017 was OER’s breakthrough year. That happened in 2017. Meanwhile, at least 70 OER-related bills were introduced in more than half the country’s state legislatures in 2017. But it never seemed to gain broader adoption beyond that group of pioneers. Ohio University is doing the same.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2017

Seesaw embodies simple authentic assessment. Recommendations on assessment with Seesaw. How to involve parents with SeeSaw. Determination of date of winner: Wednesday, March 14, 2017, the name will be drawn and the winner will be notified. Winner’s name will be posted on this blog before March 31, 2017.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Monday, October 9, 2017. So, Rushton, how can we make our teaching something special? ” Right?

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2017

Join education thought leader Alan November in Boston July 26-28 for his 2017 Building Learning Communities edtech conference , where hundreds of K-12 and higher-education leaders from around the globe will gather to discuss the world’s most successful innovations in education. The Big Mistake with Traditional Assessments.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 27, 2020

As a STEM school, we were proud to have the 2017 Northwest Iowa STEM Teacher of the Year, as well as a state of Iowa Teacher of the Year top five finalist. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As we prepare to learn this fall, we need to consider some teaching best practices.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Some of the best ways to teach with video are including them in your lesson plans, assigning video creation as homework or an in-class activity, using video responses as a way to assess your students, flipping your classroom with video content, and elearning or virtual teaching. To Assess Your Students. In Your Lesson Plan. Video apps.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 11, 2018

Lately, I have been focusing on “common assessments” versus “common understandings.” ” I have written about this in the past and shared the following ideas on why “common assessments” do not necessarily do what they hope they do.” Assessment of learning. Assessment of learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

How to Use Vocabulary Builder on Your Kindle Paperwhite. Angela has also authored or co-authored 13 books, including Blended Vocabulary for K–12 Classrooms: Harnessing the Power of Digital Tools and Direct Instruction (2017) and the bestseller The Data Teams Experience: A Guide to Effective Meetings (2014). VocabularySpellingCity.com.

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 18, 2017

Next we will examine some ideas on how to get the most out of any conference you attend this summer or beyond. From there we looked at Formative Assessment and how easy it is to do today. In the last post I gave you some ideas on how to better engage parents this upcoming school year.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 13, 2019

Developed by University College London’s Knowledge Lab , the software is primarily designed to assess as students learn, thus removing the high-pressure, high-stakes exam format that many academics feel is an unsuitable way to assess student knowledge. Read more: 4 Ways AI will be a great teaching assistant.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Tuniversitiy’s first offering is a book on how to reproduce Williams’ own song, “Happy,” and includes step-by-step tutorials on how students can create the song for themselves within Garageband. Upgrades also include Smarty Ants Español, a program designed to help K-2 Spanish-speaking students learn how to read in Spanish.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

APRIL 25, 2017

Are you going to Alan November’s BLC in Boston this July (2017)? 5 Ideas to Incorporate Assessment in Project Based Learning… Grounded in the Standards. In my workshops, I emphasize that one of the building blocks of PBL (Project Based Learning) maintains that a project must be grounded in standards and assessment.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 25, 2017

I think 2017 is going to be an exciting year, there’s going to be a lot more cloud based technology than there was before and when classes and content are delivered in the cloud and via browsers, it means kids can access the same experience and content at home as they can in the classroom.

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techlearning

MAY 11, 2017

Empower Teachers with Quick and Easy Assessments - 1142343 Empower Teachers with Quick and Easy Assessments Thu, May 11, 2017 2:00 PM EDT Join us for this webinar to learn how to solve your assessmen.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Why is it so hard to teach K-12 educators how to promote student agency and to provide choices around content and pacing—why is it so hard to teach educators how to personalize learning? My official title is “lecturer,” but that is a far cry from how I teach.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 31, 2017

Next we will examine some ideas on how to get the most out of any conference you attend this summer or beyond. From there we looked at Formative Assessment and how easy it is to do today. Today I give you some ideas on how to better engage parents this upcoming school year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Here are EdSurge’s top stories of 2017 in chronological order—a healthy dose of optimism and skepticism, words of encouragement and caution for the year ahead. Goodbye ABCs: How One State Is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments What happens when you take away grades and grade levels?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 16, 2017

DIY ( Do It Yourself ) videos, How-To videos, Tutorials, game walkthroughs and TED Talks are some of the most viewed videos. Edpuzzle and PlayPosit are two of the most popular educational tools for creating video quizzes and assessments. Both offer free versions for instructors with features for quick grading and assessment.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 21, 2017

Next we will examine some ideas on how to get the most out of any conference you attend this summer or beyond. From there we will look at Formative Assessment and how easy it is to do today. Then I’ll give you some ideas on how to better engage parents this upcoming school year. Mainly, embracing formative assessment.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

When an exam is designed to assess a wide set of skills and content, and success is calculated by one total score, students walk away identifying as a letter, number or percentage. Our team collaborated to determine how mastery was achieved for each of those standards, and developed sample tasks for each level of mastery on a given standard.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The post How to Design Google PD That Works! I presented a lot of these ideas last summer at ISTE 2017. How to Design Google PD That Works! Here are some Google Chrome resources for you: – Google Chrome Word Sneak : Tonight Show game for pre-assessment. How to/Now do). How to/Now do).

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 18, 2017

The post How to Find the Best iOS Apps for Your Classroom appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Teach her how to find apps, she can facilitate learning for a lifetime.” How to Find the Best iOS Apps for Your Classroom #mlearning #ipaded #edtech Click To Tweet. Best Apps for Teaching and Learning 2017 (AASL).

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Providing technology training for parents to increase engagement with schools, including understanding how to help their students use technology in learning. The 2016-2017 school year began with 100 percent parent participation in an orientation training to support parent understanding of the one-to-one Literacy Initiative.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

NCTE Position Statement on Independent Reading ) 3:51 How does Lisa talk to her students about reading stamina and how to refocus when distracted? Talk to your students about reading stamina and how to build it. “How Did U.S. Students Perform on the Most Recent Assessments?” 4:57 Idea 1: Opportunity.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Throughout the conference sessions, there were no shortages of ideas on how to address those issues. However, as some teachers noted, implementing these types of personalized projects can be challenging because of limited space, scarce resources, and altering assessments.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Administrators quickly gain insights like where they have challenges, where they need to make interventions, where they are seeing successes and how to repeat those successes. They don't have to worry about their rosters being incorrect, or wonder how to get grades to a student information system at the end of the term.

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