Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

How do we provide opportunities to build student agency while also staying true to the standards and expectations we are required to teach, and against which students are assessed on high stakes exams? How do we integrate this empowering approach to instruction without losing sight of the necessity of mastery?

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Data Edmentum How To Assessment 80

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Mathew Felton-Koestler, known as “Mathy Matt” on his YouTube channel , makes videos for parents that explain why and how young kids are learning math these days. He has two sets of videos specifically on the Common Core, in which he talks about the kindergarten and the third grade standards. Credit: Michelle Majdoch.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

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.

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Online Assessments Assessment Elementary Common Core 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. Time after time, they took responsibility for their own learning.

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Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network Twitter Gamification 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network.

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Assessment Common Core 79

Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The post How to Create Powerful Student ePortfolios with Google Sites appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Let’s Talk About How to Create Powerful Student ePortfolios with Google Sites! How to Create Powerful Student Portfolios with Google Sites by @Mo_Physics #gsuiteedu Click To Tweet. What is a Portfolio?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

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Learning Chromebook Common Core iPad 172

MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. What is personalized learning?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

CASEL defines these in terms of specific competencies that can be assessed and mastered: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. . That year, my students would learn how to listen actively, communicate clearly, and control outbursts.

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Resources How To Academic Standards Personalized Learning 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

A freshman at Merit Preparatory Charter School in Newark, New Jersey, Onyemaobi has access to Spark , Matchbook Learning’s online information platform that uses data to help students and teachers track exactly what skills they need to master—and to set goals and find resources to help them get there. LaNiece Primus, who teaches U.S.

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Common Core Blended Learning Data Assessment 60

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

This entry is an attempt to compile a useful -- but by no means exhaustive -- list of CBE related books that I personally feel have been either extremely illuminating in pragmatic ways (detailed models, insightful anecdotes, clear "how to's") or it inspired me to stay the course. Often the same book did both!

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Competency Based Learning Education Blended Learning Common Core 52

MindShift

MARCH 16, 2015

Some parents and educators have encouraged families to “opt out” of tests , such as those related to the Common Core State Standards, as a way to protest these practices and the effects they are having on children , families and communities. More helpful still are explicit written assessments that describe an individual’s progress.

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Assessment Learning Common Core Comparison 28

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

Education is awash with efforts to personalize learning. But what does it mean for a company to personalize its support for the teachers who use its product? Teachers learned how to move their existing curriculum from Google Drive into collaborative Kiddom classes. No school is the same.

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Company EdTech Common Core Assessment 104

Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

. * Otus - A fantastic and easy to use 1:1 learning solution for mobile classrooms (i.e Educators can manage/create student accounts, take attendance, grade, and assess students in real-time, and much much more. Pixel Press Floors - An amazing iOS app for Game Based Learning that allows students to create their own game by drawing.

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Game-Based Learning Common Core iPad Mobility 74

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

He muddled through with low grades and the assumption that learning was wearisome and trying. “I His own school experiences have since fueled his drive to support data-driven personalized learning in an effort to make today’s schools engaging, fun and free of “the stress and angst” many students feel.

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Data System Software Assessment 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Children in early elementary school have had their most formative first few years of education disrupted by the pandemic, years when they learn basic math and reading skills and important social-emotional skills, like how to get along with peers and follow routines in a classroom. Heather Miller, first grade teacher. “So

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Elementary Report Groups Assessment 144

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 382

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As the artificial intelligence revolution comes to education, teachers are rightly concerned that AI in schools will replace the human assessment of human learning. Quill improves student writing and frees me up for more advanced instruction and personalized learning. Today, I use it more for its feedback tools.

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Tools Common Core Robotics Exercises 68

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying.

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Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki 375

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 370

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Related: Personalized learning: How kids are getting into college by mastering their skills. Students are now assessed based on their “habits of scholarship” in addition to their mastery of course standards. Related: Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies?

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Common Core Advocacy System Personalized Learning 93

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Teach Writing with Tech.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Personal Learning Network 293

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Whether from formative and summative assessments or online instructional programs, data is both a powerful indicator of teaching and a driver for personalizing professional development. This very same approach can help you implement more personalized PD. Let technology inform your approach to professional development.

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Data Blended Learning LMS Knowledge Base 84

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. While whole-class learning may seem old school, the fact is whole-class learning is a key aspect in the modern classroom.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network. Appraise technology to support teaching and achieve Common Core Standards.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 244

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying.

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Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki 205

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this three-week course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety Assessment 286

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2020

In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety 222

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2020

In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety 223

TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 25, 2015

Many school districts have adopted the practice of writing their own curriculum in order to align with Common Core. A pretty good theory, but the amount of available information on a given topic is expanding so rapidly, how can we approach true “mastery” of even a fixed set of standards?

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Common Core eBook Assessment Social Media 40

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 1, 2016

“This needs to be about helping school teams re-design their classrooms for personalized learning,” and that means professional development and planning “needs to happen first, before personalized learning is implemented.” How to Build a Research Base for Your K-12 Product. Test Score Gains.

Data 40

Data Company Common Core Groups 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

It is difficult for teachers to really understand what data to act on and how assessment results should change their daily practice. Principles such as there should be data from multiple sources and data is only as good as the instrument or assessment from which it is derived.

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Data Analysis Assessment Training 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 1, 2014

The professional development offered in the Summer Institute 2014 will provide you with resources, strategies, curriculum design, assessments and more! Learn how to help your students not just meet, but exceed, the standards. Learn more here.

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Report Conference Common Core Libraries 58

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 6, 2020

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network. Appraise technology to support teaching and achieve Common Core Standards.

Blended Learning 224

Blended Learning Wiki Common Core Digital Citizenship 224

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 8, 2020

In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. image—how to use them legally. Exhibit a positive attitude toward technology that supports learning. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain.

Digital Citizenship 224

Digital Citizenship Tools Common Core Wiki 224

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying.

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Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki 177