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Visible Learning and John Hattie

Ask a Tech Teacher

That includes everything from Common Core to the IB philosophy, from Depth of Knowledge to Project-based Learning. That’s when I heard about John Hattie at an education conference I attended and his concept of Visible Learning. Assessment is about my impact. I confess, I found it frustrating. I am a change agent.

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CoSN 2018: Broadband and Cybersecurity Are Top IT Concerns

EdTech Magazine

Those were among the 10 key findings highlighted in the Consortium for School Networking’s fourth K–12 IT Leadership Survey Report , which was released on Monday in conjunction with the opening of CoSN’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Catch all of our coverage of CoSN 2018 by bookmarking EdTech ’s conference landing page.

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Four Ways to Redefine Parent Teacher Conferences—With a Little Help from Ironman

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As a former New York City high school teacher, I know that parent-teacher conferences seldom provide parents with enough time to process what their children learned, what they’re interested in, and what needs improvement. Talk about what's being learned, not what's missing. Budgeting for superheroes was always a hit in my algebra class.

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Wow! This inquiry-based, technology-rich school has no tech staff

eSchool News

At Wildwood, we have been holding K-8 student-led report card conferences for parents for six years. Students also have to select and unpack several Common Core standards to assess the quality with which they defend and showcase their theme. IB is fundamentally and foremost about the student, not about a program.

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Competing Pressures Squeeze, Shake K-12 Assessment Landscape

Marketplace K-12

The testing world is being gripped by two overriding, and often competing forces: the continued reliance on big, high-stakes assessments for accountability purposes, and the rise of more sophisticated, nimble, and smaller-scale digital assessments, largely at the classroom level. It has become a part of [our] DNA.”.

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Why teachers don’t need to ban ChatGPT or AI tools in the classroom (and what to do instead)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Second, you can try to clean up on the assessment end if you’re still concerned that AI-generated content is in your students’ papers (which might be clear simply because of our usual teacher check-ins, drafting, etc.). ChatGPT) well. Now, we can (with parent permission), but this is a fast-evolving situation that requires vigilance.

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Looking to Ditch Traditional Grades? Here’s How to Get Stakeholders On Board

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An increasing number of schools —including charter and traditional public schools—are making a similar move to ditch traditional grades in favor of a more robust approach to assessing students’ skills. Students can still receive traditional letter grades,” he explains of his plans to roll out an alternative assessment model. “Or

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