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Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

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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. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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CoSN 2018: Broadband and Cybersecurity Are Top IT Concerns

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Significant progress has been made in the transition to digital assessments , with 80 percent ready or almost ready to conduct Common Core or statewide high-stakes online assessments. IT Leaders are predominately white (90 percent). Content Subtype. CDW Activity ID. CDW VV2 Strategy. CDW Segment. Customer Focused.

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How to Prepare Students for PARCC/SBACC Tests

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This is a reprint of an article I posted last Spring. I polled my PLN to find specific tech areas students needed help with in preparing for the Assessments. Pay attention to these and your students will be much more prepared for this Spring’s Common Core assessments: Keyboarding. Common Core requires this.

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Preparing Students with Technology Skills

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The tech and core standards of organizations such as ISTE, CSTA, and Common Core State Initiative stipulate that students need foundational digital literacy skills to demonstrate writing, reading, and mathematical achievement. This article as modified and published by EdScoop. Things to consider. About the Presenter.

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Inside Tips for Successfully Implementing Online Assessments

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Whether schools are 1:1 or still relying on computer carts, the move to online assessments creates new needs from devices to professional development to data privacy policies. Have an instructional framework centered around curriculum design before talking about assessment. This article was modified and published by EdScoop.

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6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers

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Think how often keyboarding is part of student work–entering website addresses, adding comments to blogs, typing docs into GAFE, and taking online assessments. An important part of succeeding in core classes is understanding the language. Common Core has three levels of vocabulary: basic. Vocabulary.

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How to Get the Most Out Of Practice Testing

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A 2017 meta-analysis of 118 research articles found the following regarding retention of information with different test formats for practice tests: The most effective type of practice test was mixed format practice tests, which have more than one question type. Work with your child to strike the right balance.

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