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In the Teacher's Lounge: Using Edmodo to Teach Digital Literacy

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I had the pleasure on Tuesday last week to give a webinar on how I use Edmodo to teach my students digital literacy skills and help prepare them for digital assessments. Not only are my students being assessed on reading and writing literacy skills, but they are also being evaluated on understanding how to navigate and use a website.

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MC Assessment = Meta Cognitive Assessment

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Despite criticism, a traditional well-written multiple choice assessment can be a valid assessment tool ( I''m bracing for rebuttals ). The techniques outlined below can be used for formative and summative assessments. Students are assessed on a range of skills: comprehension, application, identification, etc.

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Guest post: Caston Binger Explains How the Digital Revolution Has Transformed Education

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This includes online courses, lesson plans, and assessment tools. One great example of this is the online classroom platform, Edmodo. Edmodo is also aligned with the Common Core State Standards, so it can be used to measure student progress. This allows them to share ideas and learn from each other’s experiences.

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Standards Based Grading & Learning

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How can educators accurately assess and symbolize student performance? All of this has me thinking about HOW to manage and assess via a standards-based model. When my students read via Curriculet , questions are tagged with specific Common Core ELA Standards. My experience with tracking SBL/SBG is limited.

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EdmodoCon Guest Post #2: N. Dale

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Our 2nd guest blog post in the series is by Nira Dale , a 9th grade English teacher in Florence, Alabama, and a very active member of the Language Arts community on Edmodo. from EdmodoCon 2013 Create CCSS Edmodo quizzes that strategically tie standards to each question for even more comprehensive feedback. What I Learned.

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One Solution for Tracking Standards Based Learning

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I want to work smarter, not harder, and not be like Alice falling down the rabbit hole learning a new and managing a new-to-me assessment platform. I already use Edmodo, Google Classroom, Curriculet, and my district's gradebook program Genesis. I don't want another platform. And I took a look at Tom's spreadsheets: WOW!

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CSI: Salinas

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The Final Product Students type up an outline for their case and is an individual grade assessing ability to follow directions, craft a legitimate argument and demonstrate understanding of outline format. Students would peer edit each other''s outlines using the provided checklist.

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