Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 10, 2023

You had lesson plans to get through, standards to assess, meetings to attend, parents to council, and state-wide tests that students must do well on. Maybe that comparison doesn’t work, but you get my point–your favorite lessons allowed you to think). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The national learning assessment NAEP is known as the “nation’s report card” because it gives policymakers a window into national learning. The scores also led to states jockeying for position, as they looked to see whose education system was more devastated by the pandemic. Newsom credited the performance to the state’s $23.8

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Blended Teaching: How Plagiarism Detection Software Can Help Educators Gain Confidence Discover the benefits of using plagiarism detection software in times of blended teaching Today, EdTech has become more popular than ever before. Apart from conducting fully remote classes, many educators have chosen the blended teaching model.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Texthelp ®, a leading education technology company focused on helping learners of all ages and abilities improve their reading, writing, and math skills, today announced the launch of WriQ ®, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement tool. It highlights a number of key challenges for U.S. The report analyzed U.S.

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Hapara

AUGUST 18, 2023

More willingness to listen to other viewpoints instead of scorning or fearing what is unfamiliar is another indicator of inclusive education. For example, teachers tend to assess learners who are Black differently than white learners. Research from the Brown Center for Education Policy at Brookings found that Black students are 5.8

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Think Exam

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

All the education technology trends mentioned in this blog have proven to be highly useful (especially online exam software) in comparison to the conventional academic system; hence it should be continued even if things go back to normal.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2023

Using Desmos was seen as being particularly egregious, as educators feared that students may have access to the internet and may surf the web while they should be learning or during summative assessments.

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Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2021

Innovation in education is a must if we want to keep up with technology and global advancements. There has to be a paradigm shift in our approach to education. It aims to educate students for their future careers and civic lives. Various forms of assessment are reported separately. How can schools do that?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Forms are popular in schools for assessments, data collection, and a slew of other reasons. In education, that’s a must but filling them out often becomes a complicated, time-consuming process. Check out this comparison: Uses in Education. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Take Illuminate Education. Its measurement gathered up “more than one million” fall screenings given using its FastBridge adaptive assessments going back to fall 2016. Renaissance Learning, maker of the Star Early Literacy, Star Reading and Star Math assessments, released its own analysis in November shortly after Illuminate’s report.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Our first look at long-term trends in reading and math assessments since the pandemic began affirm what many education professionals were anticipating. . NAEP’s 2022 data shows that “average scores at both grades [eighth and fourth] were not significantly different in comparison to the first reading assessment [20 years prior] in 1992.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

As educators, we craft learning experiences based on the pedagogical foundations set by those who came before us. In higher education, the student persistence and retention strategies used by institutions all over the world are built on the seminal works of great theorists such as John H. million persons under the age of 18.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Both of my parents were public educators; my father an elementary principal in Hackettstown and my mother an elementary teacher in Flemington. They both touched lives and impacted kids like countless other NJ educators. Educators are, and have been, the cultivators of virtually every other profession.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Fewer students with math skills shrinks the pool of people who are likely to cultivate an expertise in science, engineering and technology a decade from now.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 10, 2017

It seems somehow antiquated to speak of technology as if it is a distinct category of life experiences. Of course from an industrial or commercial point of view the distinction makes sense, but from a sociological — and in our case pedagogic — aspect our experience of modern life is practically indistinguishable from technology.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 7, 2018

Most tests are designed to make efficient comparisons between groups , not tell us about individuals. Group comparisons are valuable because they give us data about curriculum efficacy and how to allocate funding. Assessment is authentic when it asks students to apply their knowledge to real-world, meaningful problems.

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eSpark

OCTOBER 10, 2023

eSpark's " AI in Education " series exists to help you get up to speed, one issue at a time. While these examples were all high-profile enough to make the mainstream news, the truth is that discerning consumers can identify similar mistakes in regular day-to-day interactions with the technology. That’s not ideal in a school setting.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

My Own Chapter: M oving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Students who don’t understand a topic and don’t do well on the summative assessment for that subject, aren’t automatically moved on because time allotted for that topic ran out. In fact, in so many ways, it brings common sense back to education. Educational applications. Characteristics.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

Based on the assessment data of 3.8 million students from all 50 states, Renaissance’s midyear How Kids Are Performing report provides targeted insights to help educators accelerate spring and summer learning. million students’ assessments. Educators can access the summer learning resources at Renaissance.com/SummerLearning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2023

As the Director of Technology at Maconaquah School Corporation located in north-central Indiana, I know firsthand that implementing a proactive cybersecurity posture is a difficult and time-consuming–yet necessary–process. We regularly survey teachers and review usage data to assess and adjust our licensing.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As schools and districts choose from a growing menu of online educational products and services, many educators seek evidence to inform their purchasing decisions. Too often, parents, educators and, yes, reporters, simply ask “What works?” Department of Education, Mathematica recently. Supported by a grant from the U.S.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We were collecting data from a variety of assessments, but the interventions we were using just weren’t showing that students were making consistent progress as readers. In fact, a comparison of NWEA reading test results from SY 2019-20 to SY 2022-23 showed K-5 students went from 37 percent at or above norms of growth rate to 93 percent.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 16, 2015

This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. charts comparison free resources free technology for teachers' These are very useful when trying to find and select a tool to use. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article.

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Tech Helpful

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Are we as educators respecting our students concerns? I look at the list for teachers and I think of how technology can aid some of the burden through efficiencies (because that's what I do). I hear it and I respect it but I started thinking about the differences between a teacher's school year and a students. Bear with me.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Instructure , the publicly traded company best known for its learning management systems (LMS) Canvas and Bridge, has agreed to acquire a fellow Salt Lake City-based education technology company, MasteryConnect , for $42.5 K-12 market for classroom assessment tools is expected to reach $1.7 Of that figure, about $12.3

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PlagiarismCheck

APRIL 24, 2023

Leading Institutions use different plagiarism detection new-age tools to help students, teachers, and overall educational success. A Comprehensive Overview of Popular Plagiarism Checkers Efficient plagiarism software needs advanced technology with integration capabilities, the newest algorithms, and databases.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in. So how does one identify a student’s knowledge state?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

Teens who read more paper books scored higher on reading assessments. Even among students of similar socioeconomic backgrounds, those who read books in a paper format scored a whopping 49 points higher on the Program for International Student Assessment, known as PISA. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. years of learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

Even when circumstances were less complex than what’s facing schools today, educators have regularly felt hurried. Student Assessment By now (mid-June), nearly every school in the U.S. Quality formative assessments, a requisite for providing meaningful instruction, will be especially important for closing COVID learning gaps.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2022

PITTSBURGH, PA – It goes without saying that the COIVD-19 pandemic has impacted higher education and students across the globe. According to the data, of the eight scales measured by the assessment on a percentile basis, the means declined for eight of them during the quarantine period. But to what degree?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true. A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said. But at a university? “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2022

This level of accountability for making sure graduates land jobs and take home good pay is rare in higher education. Department of Education has been rethinking a “gainful employment” rule intended to ensure career-education programs pay off for students. Is success a high program-completion rate? A strong job-placement rate?

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

A 2018 study conducted by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) highlights schools in 9 states that have already started to implement interoperable systems with promising results. Expand Educational Resources to Student Toolkits. Transfer Student Data Seamlessly Across Academic Careers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

It isn’t just the tech entrepreneurs and Hollywood directors who dream about the role that artificial intelligence can play, or will play, in everyday human life—educators have begin to join them. Some give generalized, out-of-classroom descriptions; others tailor their definitions more specifically to education.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

It''s been a few weeks since I returned from Doha, Qatar and the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). If you aren''t familiar, this conference centers around scalable, actionable ideas for the future of education worldwide. Formative assessments must be the norm. But there is always a focus on actions.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Nation is in the initial stages of “higher education-massification” according to recent reports. India is closer than ever in reaching a Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) of 30% in higher education. GER between 15% and 50% is regarded as a mass system, where higher education is seen as a right for those with certain formal qualifications.

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