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5 Formative Assessment Tools for Teachers

The Electric Educator

This type of assessment is called formative assessment. Formative assessment is non-graded activities that are used to inform and plan future instruction. Formative assessment can take the form of a quiz, an exit ticket, a simple project or task, or a thumbs up/down response. Check out this handy head-2-head comparison !

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Schools must lead on developing digital citizenship

Neo LMS

Their educational experience is, by comparison, antiquated. I imagine they smile with bemusement as they simultaneously Google, Twitter and Snapchat below their desk, when a teacher proudly declares her lessons are now available online , or that she has created a group chat for the class.

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Great collection of charts comparing EdTech tools

Educational Technology Guy

Follow me on Twitter and Google+. charts comparison free resources free technology for teachers' This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article.

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Blended Teaching: How Plagiarism Detection Software can Help Educators

Educational Technology Guy

One of the challenges associated with it is assessing and grading numerous students’ works. Modern tools allow running student papers for comparison with many different sources. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. NYU, MIT, and Yale are just a few universities that currently offer blended teaching to their students.

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Tutor.com’s On-Demand Tutoring Meets ESSA II Standards, Demonstrating Positive Impacts on Student Grades and Attendance

eSchool News

The study, which examined outcomes during the 2022–2023 school year, included a matched analysis sample of 746 students (373 treatment, 373 comparison) in grades 9–12 from El Monte Union High School District. Researchers used both administrative and state summative assessment data to examine the impact of Tutor.com on student outcomes.

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Interoperability Boosts the Speed of School Communications

EdTech Magazine

One example, the Ed-Fi Operational Data Store, provides a way to pull information from different systems into a singular database for easy access and assessment. The alliance also provides tools to get districts on their way. Five of the nine states involved in the SETDA report are currently using Ed-Fi resources. by Eli Zimmerman.

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New learning environments

Learning with 'e's

An inevitable comparison was made between the earlier cMOOCs (which were largely connectivist and student centred in their ethos) and the later xMOOCs (which are more commercially oriented and arguably less student centred). Generally the Twitter timeline was fast moving and thought provoking.

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