EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Summary: Patti West-Smith, an expert in pedagogy from Turnitin, explains that with a bit of up-front guidance, rubrics help students become self-directed learners who see exactly how to improve before turning in their paper or assignment. By Lynda Van Kuren. They take what is unclear to students and make it very concrete.”.

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

OVER TWO MILLION WORDS IN FOUR WEEKS First-grade students at Milton Public Schools use SeeSaw to narrate a story and record. At Milton (MA) Public Schools last February, 758 fourth- and fifth-grade students engaged in a four-week collaborative story writing experience. Making writing a priority is difficult work, Riff says. Using Epic!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is the second part of my much-abbreviated look at the stories that were told about education technology in 2018 – and in this case, the people who funded the storytellers. ACT and TurnItIn both bought two. ( The murder of Khashoggi is a story that is deeply connected to many of the people in the tech and VC industries.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. Rich People’s Kids Don’t Use Tech" (and Other Stories about the Silicon Valley Elite). Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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