Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That includes everything from Common Core to the IB philosophy, from Depth of Knowledge to Project-based Learning. Assessment is about my impact. Visible Learning focuses on how to learn , not the constructs like sitting quietly and starting school at 8 a.m. I confess, I found it frustrating. I am a change agent.

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Learning Common Core Digital Citizenship Assessment 372

Educator Innovator

AUGUST 26, 2014

This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Guest Article by: Matthew Pietrafetta, Ph.D. Setbacks are part of learning and part of life, yet we all handle them very differently, and we’re not necessarily taught how to do so most productively. A teacher can learn so much about a student from the way he or she handles setbacks.

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Classroom Common Core Assessment System 258

Hapara

MAY 19, 2022

Lesson plans serve as a teacher guideline for what students will learn, why they are learning a skill and how they will learn it and demonstrate their proficiency. The first step to planning an effective lesson is to decide what skill you will teach using the Common Core or state standards specific to your content area and grade level.

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Hapara Examples Assessment Common Core 144

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

Banzai is a personal finance curriculum that teaches high school and middle school students how to prioritize spending decisions through real-life scenarios and choose-. Students finish the program with an assessment of knowledge and certificates. Older students can also read articles on living wages through the United States.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Specifically, there have been few useful tools with which to assess SEL. Specifically, there have been few useful tools with which to assess SEL. Funders and other organizations are focusing on how to bring practical social and emotional assessments to the field. Reasons to Assess A key question is why assess student SEL?

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Assessment Program Evaluation Data Report 81

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Kate showed James this otherworldly site, and James tested how the AI was answering questions with intriguing bias depending on the type of question (“What’s the best way to stop terrorists?” vs. “How to bring peace to the Middle East”). Instead, I hope that you will feel more prepared with how to address AI in your classroom.

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Tools Classroom Libraries Assessment 120

Hapara

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Speaking & Listening portion of the ELA Common Core State Standards ask learners to: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not. . But giving feedback is only half of what our learners need to know how to do.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

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.

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Online Assessments Assessment Elementary Common Core 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2016

In this course, teachers will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, critical thinking, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network.

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Wiki Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network Learning 150

The Jose Vilson

AUGUST 2, 2020

Some of it might have started from my pictures with then-presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren and Julian Castro, but the more recent uptick ostensibly comes from Peter Greene’s Forbes article. The person should know how to engage Pre-K through 12 and higher education platforms intricately.

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Education Social Media Common Core Advocacy 218

Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A trained guide gives you a brief history of archery, shows you how to hold a bow and notch an arrow, and teaches you how to fire an arrow. This makes practice tests not only an assessment tool,but a crucial part of the teaching toolkit. The post How to Get the Most Out Of Practice Testing appeared first on.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Fostering engagement — knowing your students, knowing how to make the material sing to them — is where the art of teaching is on full display, says author Katie Novak in UDL Now! , Read the original version here.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finding good lessons, videos, articles and activities is hard. The question we pondered was how to preserve these gains as teachers modified BHP courses, and specific lessons evolved over time. Freddy has been studying how kids learn to read for four decades and has written more than 100 peer reviewed articles on the subject.

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OER Common Core Video Assessment 114

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

What if there’s a problem you don’t know how to solve, or a question you can’t answer? It’s no longer enough for teachers to know how to keep the hardware working. Now, they need to understand using tech as a tool, where and how to integrate it. Category: ASSESSMENTS. What if the computers break? reboot, restart ….

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Common Core Digital Citizenship eBook Social Media 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

You’ll have a bunch of tech ed skills you can now say ‘I know how to do that’ Like TwitterChats. Is the course content theory or teaching how to teach? Twitter—used to share notes, thoughts, mini-assessments, to collect information via #hashtags, and in TwitterChats. How is it taught? You like change.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Learning 152

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Explicit instruction about what, why, and how readers read. Teacher monitoring, assessing, and support during IR. The authors also cite the Common Core Anchor Standard that addresses independent reading: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.10. Assessing Independent Reading. Assessing Independent Reading. Notability.

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Assessment Tools Common Core Digital Citizenship 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2017

Students collaborate by commenting on the posts of others and/or co-writing a blog themed to a particular topic, taking turns posting articles. Fit articles to the audience, task, purpose. Once students are comfortable with the process, have them post an article on their blog. How original is material? Be knowledgeable.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Social Media Assessment 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Certificate.

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Assessment Common Core 78

eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

In our district, we are making a concerted effort to move toward project-based learning and a “teacher as designer” model, which helps teachers learn how to partner with both their students as well as their content. Our 1:1 approach to technology has allowed us to move into an era of blended learning. Next page: 2 more Tech Essentials).

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Common Core Education Blended Learning Secondary 69

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

So it’s a legitimate question: Who teaches students how to use the school’s digital devices and what training do they get to support that responsibility? For Common Core schools: How do they prepare students to succeed with online testing? Is it a one-off PD day or ongoing? This isn’t an uncommon concern.

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Technology Digital Citizenship Common Core iPad 150

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

Socrative from MasteryConnect : This has been a go-to for teachers for years because of its simple interface that allows teachers to create assessments in advance or on-the-fly. Students or teachers can trigger videos, articles, or other content to appear when scanning preselected images. A Little Healthy Competition and Movement.

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EdTech How To Common Core Tools 60

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. Now… let’s take a step back in time over ten years and see how a Keynote can have so much meaning as we plan for the future. November 8, 2009 (21centuryedtech Article by Michael Gorman).

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STEM Resources OER Conference 207

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Mathalicious provides teachers with lessons that help them teach math in a way that engages their students–in a way that helps students understand how the world works. Lessons are aligned to Common Core Standards and explore real life questions. Find standards-aligned content and assign practice exercises, videos and articles.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Rubrics to assess qualitative learning: While all work might not be graded, both students and teachers need to be working toward the same goals. Prior to CueThink, Sheela was Project Director at Pearson Education, focusing on technologically innovative assessment items based on Common Core State Standards.

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Instructional Materials Professional Learning Pearson Common Core 71

Evelyn Learning

MAY 14, 2023

This article discusses, in detail, the points that influence the decision of its development, such as: Role of technology in curriculum Reassessing curriculum development as per new age requirements Factors to consider when redesigning the curriculum A curriculum is important for both teachers and students.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2015

Some parents and educators have encouraged families to “opt out” of tests , such as those related to the Common Core State Standards, as a way to protest these practices and the effects they are having on children , families and communities. More helpful still are explicit written assessments that describe an individual’s progress.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Accomplishing this so it serves educational goals isn’t as much about knowing how to use the tools as constructing knowledge in an organic, scalable way. Let students discover how to use word processing tools authentically and organically. Multimedia projects. Lots of tech tools are used in conjunction with other tech tools.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Wiki BYOD 150

Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Educators can manage/create student accounts, take attendance, grade, and assess students in real-time, and much much more. Rosetta Stone for Kids - A wonderful free iPad app for kids ages 3-7 learning how to read. . Rosetta Stone for Kids - A wonderful free iPad app for kids ages 3-7 learning how to read. iPads/Chromebooks).

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Game-Based Learning Common Core iPad Mobility 74

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. Related: Common Core testing showdown in Massachusetts.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In addition, teachers can also use Seesaw to create a class blog, communicate with students and families, create and curate activities from a robust and ever-growing library, and assess student work via digital portfolios. This allows teachers to assess student progress over time. How do I set up my class in Seesaw?

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Google Android Video Accessibility 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

It’s why Tims includes articles from “ The 1619 Project ” — a New York Times look at the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans — in the curricula for his classes. This story also appeared in NBC News. and African American history. As the old adage goes, “What gets tested, gets taught.”.

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Study Common Core Report Training 112

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying. netiquette.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 375

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

This included reading and instruction as it connects to content, research in relationship to inquiry, and student production and how it integrates with voice and choice. There are other areas that also come to mind including student grouping, assessment, and interest. Students can read current events at a level they understand.

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Resources Tools Differentiated Instruction Learning 60

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying. netiquette.

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Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki 368

Saving Socrates

APRIL 28, 2014

This post is a response to a rather poorly drafted article in the Washington Post lamenting that Kindergarten has become the new 1st grade. Before reading this post, I strongly suggest you skim the article to better understand my response. I learned how to read fluently by mid 1st grade. This is absolutely true.

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Study Elementary Assessment Common Core 78

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying. netiquette.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 364