Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Assessment For Learning. We walk you through the process of distinguishing between various assessment types, building goals, identifying best practices around your assessments and analyzing your data to make lasting instructional decisions throughout the year. Student Performance Improves on State Assessments.

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Edmentum Common Core Assessment Study 133

Hapara

MAY 19, 2022

The first step to planning an effective lesson is to decide what skill you will teach using the Common Core or state standards specific to your content area and grade level. Start by designing engaging learning activities to help students develop their skills, reach proficiency, and assess whether students met the learning targets.

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Hapara Examples Assessment Common Core 144

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Programs are geared to the particular learning of Elementary and Middle School, and Middle and High School with games and lessons aligned to state and national standards like Common Core, TEKS and MAFS. Students can track correct responses allowing it to be used as an assessment if desired. Interactivate. BarGraph Sorter.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Comparison Report 243

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

You’re technophobic, but lately feel like teaching without technology is like looking at a landscape through a straw: You’re missing a lot. Technology in education is the greatest show on earth. ” Education’s fix requires technology. You want to change that. You want personalized help.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Learning 152

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 24, 2015

For the last two years, I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the traditional approach to assessing students and reporting grades. This year I decided to overhaul my gradebook and assess students based on their mastery of particular skills, also referred to as standards-based grading. Redesigning My Gradebook. 2 = basic.

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Assessment Common Core Analysis Examples 150

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

Welcome to post number five in a series devoted to formative learning (assessment). I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Part 5: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. Check out my Booking Page.

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Assessment Tools Learning STEM 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

We have aligned English Language Arts curriculum to the North Dakota Common Core State Standards, and redesigned units to address possible gaps. The reconfiguring and implementation of these two areas—curriculum and assessment—undoubtedly costs money and time. However, these initiatives are becoming increasingly contradictory.

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Assessment Classroom Common Core Data 60

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 27, 2017

After students read, they can take a quick assessment about the topic. Students can take an assessment just after reading. Kids Discover Online is a fantastic supplementary tool for science, history, and ELA teachers who need students to read relevant, high-quality, nonfiction texts and assess for understanding.

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Learning Assessment Elementary Company 239

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. They include; One-Half Day PBL Splash, Full Day PBL Starter; and a One-Half Day Technology Workshop dedicated to amplifying standards and process using Technology.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network Twitter Gamification 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2017

But blended learning is more than simply replacing lectures and books with web-based technology. Students start with an assessment to determine where they are in their math learning and move forward from there. Digital books are aligned with state standards and Common Core. CK-12 Flexbooks. Student blogs.

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Blended Learning Khan Academy Learning Blackboard 171

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Rubrics to assess qualitative learning: While all work might not be graded, both students and teachers need to be working toward the same goals. Students should be able to clearly find and refer to rubrics as they review teacher feedback.

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Instructional Materials Professional Learning Pearson Common Core 73

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Now, the founder explains, the organization is trying to make its offerings a core part of the classroom curriculum through a tool Khan is temporarily referring to as a “teacher aid.” We can add more subjects, practice modalities, lightweight quizzes and assessments, and also get data quicker.” Khan also remains optimistic.

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Khan Academy Tools Common Core Exercises 159

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2017

Another good resource is Common Sense Media. Second: Secure the buy-in of all stakeholders, from teachers who think blogging is either cutting edge (meaning outside their skillset) or unsafe (refer back to the discussion on digital citizenship), parents who think it’s social media, and Admin who are suspicious of both.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Social Media Assessment 150

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2020

It referred EdSurge to daily email updates on the progress of the AP exams. A few years ago, many states reported problems with administering Common Core tests. Amro contacted her college counselor to check with College Board officials about whether her responses went through. They are still waiting for confirmation.

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Social Media Common Core Smartphone Tablets 163

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They outlined key factors that can predict non-submission, using data students put into their Common App profiles coupled with community indicators from the American Community Survey administered by the U.S. Census Bureau and school features from the Common Core of Data maintained by the U.S. Department of Education.

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Survey Analysis Advocacy Report 199

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The one change that I didn’t see coming was a shift in my curiosity about assessment. If we say we’re going to assess students on a wide array of competencies such as collaboration, agency and communication skills, we have to also teach them these skills. At New Tech Network, we refer to our work as facilitation.

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Common Core Assessment Outcomes Groups 60

eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2016

This new product uses innovative technology to combine Gale’s curriculum-aligned research content with interactive 3D models from partner Cyber Science 3D, to help students understand science beyond the text. Each session closes with a short assessment to help build foundational knowledge.

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Common Core Flipped Classroom Learning Future Ready 40

Saving Socrates

APRIL 22, 2013

In his post on his blog [link] , Aaron Ross suggests that their are two polar opposite approaches to the neccessity of a common core, those who want to protect and perhaps even popularize it and those who want to totally abandon it. Is a common core necessary for elementary school? I adore E.D.

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Common Core Assessment Learning Guidelines 49

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. In this second post you will discover how careful examination of the nouns in a standard can help you find resources to assist in proper technology integration.

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

On paper, students would complete the chart and cite page numbers to reference statements. 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. Not all characters know all events.

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BYOD Edmodo Common Core Digital Citizenship 97

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

If entrepreneurship refers to an all-inclusive term meaning innovation, problem solving, creativity and leadership, then it would seem that applying it to education aligns with many of the existing lessons and goals teachers have in place. And if profit is part of the motive, is it okay?

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Education LMS Moodle EdTech 80

Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

Common Sense team members and certified educators presented on a range of practical and engaging ways to use specific technology tools for learning as well as our latest and greatest digital citizenship offerings. . ELA AND ELL A+ Tools for K-5 Common Core Reading Comprehension.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Blendspace 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

For students in school, ‘speed of thought’ refers to how fast they develop ideas that will be recorded. 6.6 ) By 3rd grade, Common Core discusses the use of keyboarding to produce work, i.e., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 Some schools require assessments of student learning in technology. 45 wpm is good.

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Common Core Classroom Digital Citizenship Examples 341

Philly Teacher

MARCH 17, 2014

In addition, there were more sessions this year focused around topics like integrating technology, digital citizenship, mobile learners, technology and critical thinking and others. Another bright spot was the increased number of sessions referring to project or problem-based learning. Student-Centered, Project Based Learning.

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Conference Edcamps Social Media Common Core 68

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

The second kind is normally assessed: formal (or formulaic) and undervalued by students as anything more than a grade. This type of assessment will give a more authentic picture of your students' mastery. Use technology to produce, publish, and update writing products. Reflecting on learning can only deepen it. WS 11-12.6:

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Comparison Classroom 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Learning Models, Theories, and Technology: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers. Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. by Terry Heick and TeachThought Staff.

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Arts integration can also bring content to life through the infusion of instructional technologies. CCSS Connection: Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole, including cases of unlike denominators, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem.

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Android Common Core Video Tools 73

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

So when it comes to research, are you still directing kids toward your grandmother’s resources — encyclopedias, reference books, and museums? They search based on subject matter, video topic, Common Core or state standard, or simply browse a list of videos. They can even create quizzes to assess their learning.

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Edmodo Common Core Digital Citizenship Video 307

Reading By Example

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This is another reaction I wrote to assigned reading for the graduate course I am taking through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Technology and School Leadership. Yet the common threads between critical literacy and new literacies are hard to ignore. References. Critical literacy. 2016, May 14). Forzani, E.

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Common Core Social Media Assessment Online Learning 43

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The current arguments over the Common Core State Standards underscore our confusion. The impulse of the Common Core writers, surely shared by even those who disagree with specifics, is a noble one: To find an antidote to the narrow test-based accountability and laundry list of outcomes spawned by NCLB. Minimize Testing .

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Common Core Guidelines Handbook Outcomes 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Even better, assess students’ interest by giving them time to browse the stories. For example, the Common Core Standards for grades K-5 require students to be familiar with a range of text types from diverse cultures and time periods. Keep in mind that not all stories in a basal reading program are created equal.

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Libraries Common Core Strategy Meeting 84

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

An automotive tech student at Manchester School of Technology Photo: Manchester School of Technology. The Manchester School of Technology in New Hampshire’s capital city opened in 1982 as a stand-alone career and technology education Center. Related: Can all students succeed at science and technology high schools?

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Common Core Course Secondary Laptops 40

Philly Teacher

MARCH 17, 2014

In addition, there were more sessions this year focused around topics like integrating technology, digital citizenship, mobile learners, technology and critical thinking and others. Another bright spot was the increased number of sessions referring to project or problem-based learning. Student-Centered, Project Based Learning.

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Conference Social Media Common Core Edcamps 40

Reading By Example

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This is another reaction I wrote to assigned reading for the graduate course I am taking through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Technology and School Leadership. Yet the common threads between critical literacy and new literacies are hard to ignore. References. Critical literacy. 2016, May 14). Forzani, E.

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Common Core Social Media Assessment Online Learning 28

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 9, 2016

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. The people at Common Sense Media (makers of Graphite) bring a collection of educator vetted apps. While exploring Graphite, be sure to check out the collection of Common Core Apps, rich with possibilities.

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Resources Digital Citizenship STEM Conference 60

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Though I just discovered it, the news aggregator AllSides has been around for around four years as a platform that curates and uses crowd-sourcing technology to identify perspective in news stories. The bias rating refers to news articles on the source’s website, not from opinion pieces or what is broadcasted on TV or radio.

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E-rate Common Core Strategy Survey 40