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Dozens of Online Resources for Assessment

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Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding.

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10 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology

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Common Core tells us: New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. You can use Google Forms or the Google calendar. Write them in Word or Google Docs. Try these ten tech uses.

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Last Chance for this College-credit Tech-for-writing Class

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Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why.

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9 Ways to Add Tech to your Lessons Without Adding Time to Your Day

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Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. empower students to solve common tech problems so they can keep moving forward with their learning.

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How NOT to Assess Student Writing

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In my school, every teacher assesses writing. If I use Common Core as an example, here’s what these Standards call out as important about writing (slightly rephrased from the Anchor Standards): Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

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A free site that lets you collect all the pieces of your experience into one nicely-formatted digital place. . This can be created using PowerPoint, Google Glides, Haiku Deck, or another slideshow tool you’re comfortable with. Instead, create a free Google Voice account. When that’s done, honestly assess your resume.

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Why Game Based Learning Is the Right Choice for Remote Teaching

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SplashLearn is an easy-to-use COPA-compliant, Common Core-aligned math curriculum for grades Kindergarten-5th that uses game-based learning to teach mathematical concepts. Assess learning –today’s favorite is gameshow webtools such as Kahoot and Quizizz. Good example of GBL: SplashLearn .