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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. The underlying theme can’t be ignored by teachers any longer: A 21 st Century learner requires technologic proficiency.

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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. Instead of writing answers to questions, students record themselves or take a video. Recommend tech in homework.

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

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Resources include videos, pedagogic articles, lesson plans, projects. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. What You Get.

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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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Teach Critical Thinking

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60-second Adventures in Thought are six sixty-second videos on “thought experiments” that have changed the world. The Crossing is a video showing how a society of “nearlings” tries, fails, and tries again to cross a chasm. This one-hour [quite old] wildly-famous video shares his discussion of that method.

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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When I started teaching, videos were a rarity. Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge. But the excuse I used, as did most of my colleagues, was: It takes too much time to find the right videos to support so many different personal demands. Check123

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