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20 Ways to Assess Prior Knowledge

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this post, we delve into various strategies educators can use to assess students’ prior knowledge. From interactive classroom activities like quizzes and mind maps to reflective practices like learning logs and self-assessments, these methods offer a diverse range of ways to gauge what students know and how they think.

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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference?

Catlin Tucker

Teachers will want to use pre-assessments, diagnostics, and/or assess prior knowledge to identify where each student is in relation to the content at the heart of the playlist. In addition to using data to design the playlist, it is essential to build mechanisms into the playlist to collect formative assessment data.

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Video Conferencing: Establishing Routines and Structuring Online Time with Students

Catlin Tucker

They may provide whole group instruction, work with small groups, and conference with individual students. Once teachers have a schedule and know how often they will be meeting students online, they can begin to think through a schedule or routine to guide that time with students.

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3 Things Educators and Edtech Suppliers Need to Talk About

Edsurge

Collaboration and open dialogue are key as we navigate this terrain, ensuring innovation meets the needs of today's educational institutions. Of course, following interoperability standards can help ensure the entire system works together and makes it faster, cheaper and easier to make future changes or additions to the ecosystem.

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What Does Blended Learning Look Like in an AP Class?

Catlin Tucker

Can teachers who are teaching an AP course use blended learning models and cover the extensive curriculum? In this guest post, Cori Schwarzrock shares her experience using blended learning models in her AP psychology course. What platform or technology tools will best meet your needs? My answer is a resounding “Yes!”

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Course Hero Adds $70 Million to Series B Fundraise

Edsurge

When Course Hero raised $10 million in early February, the amount seemed curiously small for $1.1 Last week, Course Hero secured an additional $70 million in an extension of its Series B round, courtesy of some of the biggest names in the financial sector—TPG, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and GSV. It kept its $1.1 billion valuation.)

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Today’s Meet is Closed. What are your Alternatives?

Ask a Tech Teacher

As of June 16, 2018, Today’s Meet closed (read the full details here ). That iconic backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners, the one that for ten years was the first name thought of when discussing feedback and collaboration, one that quickly became a staple in classrooms and conferences.

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