EdTechTeacher

MAY 1, 2020

How is assessment, instruction, and technology integration changing for our top performing high school students in light of Covid-19? Remote Learning AP Culture of Assessment. On March 20th, Collegeboard made some initial announcements about the relationship between Remote Instruction and AP Assessment in their AP Central Platform.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 6, 2020

Different software programs will make “portfolios” easy to share, yet do we truly embrace the power that a digital portfolio can bring into our schools? Does the portfolio help in this endeavor when every student we work with now will be googled for jobs, university, or a myriad of other things.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2019

AltSchool, a developer of personalized learning software that once operated a chain of “microschools,” is getting a major makeover. Ventilla was formerly a Google executive (after selling his social-search startup to the internet giant) who left in 2013 to learn about the education landscape.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The students came up with the project themselves and designed a Google form to track their phone time, including which apps they used most. Students chat about the data analysis they’ve performed on their cellphone usage over a week, while Perizzolo walks around the room fielding their questions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

classroom.cloud is particularly relevant during the ongoing pandemic transitions because it can be accessed from anywhere, it works on many platforms, and it integrates with Google Classroom and Microsoft School Data Sync to pre-populate classes. classroom.cloud, like all NetSupport solutions, is heavily piloted and tested in real classrooms.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. JULY 19, 2020 · 1:26 AM | EDIT. I enjoy learning from all of you.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 12, 2020

Introducing Fluency Tutor; an App for Google Chrome that helps students improve reading fluency while saving busy teachers valuable time. Luckily their schools were already using Chromebooks and Google Classroom very heavily, so they just had to alter their lesson structure. He doesn’t want the kids to learn new software remotely.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 28, 2022

Jamboard: Kitaboo can integrate with a third-party app such as Google Jamboard, a digital interactive whiteboard with a touchscreen that can be used for online collaboration among instructors and learners. The software creates these flashcards automatically, based on the subject under study, to support teaching.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

While rough " deepfake " videos have been around for several years, the proliferation of video manipulation that appear real enough to fool viewers really shifted into high gear in 2019 with the launch of multiple AI open-source software and mobile apps. (On A quick Google search resulted in no immediate hits of others writing such an essay.

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edWeb.net

MAY 14, 2020

As of March 29, 2020, school closures due to COVID-19 have impacted at least 124,000 U.S. As recent as three months ago, school districts had robust, successful adapt and adopt methods for new curricula and programming, which included the collaborative process of assessment, observation, and reflection. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

EVERFI’s health literacy course uses Bloom’s taxonomy framework of hierarchical learning and assessment and is aligned with National Health Education Standards (NHES) , Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) and Jump$tart Coalition’s National Standards for K-12 Personal Finance Education.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2019

This stage does not necessarily recognize the highest capabilities of digital technologies and merely substitutes old ways for a new mode with the lowest orchestration of software. They often say, “We let the teachers make all the choices as to what and how they will use various technologies including the software elements.”

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 8, 2020

How can I leverage tools, like online discussions and video conferencing software, to allow learners to engage with each other? How can I utilize the collaborative nature of the Google Suite or Microsoft OneNote to get groups of students working on shared tasks together?

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. More than 80 percent of the edtech startups created in the past five years will not survive through 2020. The only problem was that that world didn’t yet exist.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

She and her husband, who works as a software engineer, felt that Annika’s social experience was more important than any academic progress she might make in remote kindergarten. “In Related: What kids stand to lose if 2020 steals kindergarten. An in-person teacher helps them sign in and get used to Zoom or Google Classroom.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

These elements help us to assess whether or not the risk for our children is too high to have their information in that digital space. . Kasey has talked often about students encountering a future opportunity that “Googles” them only to find negative or character damaging content online. Al is also a 2020 EdTech 50 winner.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. Over 40 STEAM Resources… Creative Thinking, STEM, and PBL at FETC 2020. One example used was Google’s idea to allow its employees 20% percent job time for self direction. Over 40 STEAM Resources.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Districts expressed interest in additional DreamBox products that address other pandemic-related problems, like its new predictive analytics tool, designed to assess student progress and learning loss in lieu of now-canceled standardized tests. That strained the company, but it also notched DreamBox record levels of renewals.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

The “cultivation of students’ entrepreneurship and innovation capabilities and practical skills” was a priority in China’s 5-Year Plan for 2016-2020. In the past couple of years the company has hired hundreds of software engineers, from the likes of Chinese internet giants Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, to make that happen.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 1, 2020

MTI 563 starts Monday, July 6, 2020! Ideas include visual, audio, video, mindmaps, infographics, graphic organizers, charts and tables, screenshots, screencasts, images, games and simulations, webtools, and hybrid assessments. Google account (can be your school account or your personal one). MTI 563: The Differentiated Teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 16, 2020

MTI 563 starts in one week–Monday, April 27, 2020! Ideas include visual, audio, video, mindmaps, infographics, graphic organizers, charts and tables, screenshots, screencasts, images, games and simulations, webtools, and hybrid assessments. Google account (can be your school account or your personal one). What is it.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Since the shift to remote learning in spring 2020, schools in the U.S. software and electronic textbooks, as is the case in New Mexico ) to physical devices (e.g. Companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google regularly supply schools with discounted technology that districts could not otherwise afford themselves.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2019

And the number of education-specific apps, services, and software I actually used consistently? The Return When teachers conduct an initial assessment of any technology, they assume there will be some investment involved—usually related to the amount of time it will take to learn the technology and incorporate it into practice.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Clifton was among 30 teachers around the country participating in a new effort, funded by the former CEO of Google, to encourage more teachers to conduct high-quality classroom research, from miniature randomized controlled trials to A/B tests, a type of split experiment often used by online retailers. They went through every single lesson.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

This article was originally published on Global Online Academy's (GOA) Insights blog on March 4, 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.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. The quotation is from 2012.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 7, 2020

Take inspiration from Google, Facebook, Microsoft Word, and others to learn the common themes of web interfaces and copy them. As of 2020 , there are more than 14 billion mobile devices in use worldwide, a number that’s expected to grow to nearly 17 billion by 2023. Your users will thank you.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

Buying hardware and buying software does not make you or your students or your institutions forward-thinking. The companies selling us the hardware and software to store this data are fragile. Certainly, we are surrounded by lots of new consumer technology products today that beckon to us to buy buy buy the latest thing.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Testing and Assessment ? Special Needs ? Strengths-based Education ? Student 2.0 ? Student Entrepreneurship ? Teacher 2.0 ? Teaching Online ? Temperament and Learning Styles ? Unschooling ? Virtual Schooling ? World Schooling See you “online!”

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

But Large Language Models (LLMs), and particularly the recent demo of ChatGPT, seem to have put the fear of God into everyone from middle school English teachers to the CEO of Google. Especially if you need to create several thousand assessment items. And improvements will absolutely need to be made.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 10, 2022

It is a consumer-grade learning software designed to create personalized learning experiences and help users discover new learning opportunities. Automated assessments: To make learning and retention easier, KITABOO helps create assessment questions and assigns them to each student individually based on the lessons.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Google to Symantec: We don't trust you anymore | InfoWorld → Admins need to consider whether they still want to use Symantec (the cybersecurity firm!) "In these cases, boards need to provide access to a school device. after its repeated mistakes with issuing TLS certificates. “The

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Google to Symantec: We don't trust you anymore | InfoWorld → Admins need to consider whether they still want to use Symantec (the cybersecurity firm!) "In these cases, boards need to provide access to a school device. after its repeated mistakes with issuing TLS certificates. “The

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2019

A McKinsey & Company study from 2014 suggested that textbook rentals would cannibalize new-textbook sales by 2017, resulting in a reduction in new-book sales of 5 to 10 percent by 2020. Every day, people are having conversations with their Alexa or Google Assistant, requesting knowledge from endless databases of information.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

While educators and school district administrators have grown used to reviewing assessment results and other forms of student data, they may not yet be looking at newer and increasingly important metrics such as online engagement, trending use of apps, and the return on investments in software.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

How : Google Slides, PPT, Buncee , Thinglink , Genially , Canva School librarians can create choice boards aligned with different ability levels, and students can choose according to how they feel comfortable. Teachers can create multimedia assessments and activities for their students, who record and embed their responses.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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