Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic. The primary purpose of encouraging students to jot down a research paper is to assess their writing and research skills.

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Digital Citizenship Study Guidelines Analysis 307

Catlin Tucker

JULY 24, 2020

Video has several benefits in a blended or online course. Teachers can present students with an unfamiliar problem or prompt to pique their interest, ask them to generate questions about a topic, or assess their prior knowledge. Video is likely to play a significant role in blended and online courses this year.

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Learning Video Strategy Assessment 546

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In my latest book, Balance with Blended Learning , I write about strategies that turn everyday tasks, like giving feedback, assessing student work, and conferencing with students about progress into opportunities for connection. It is ideal if both the teacher and student have access to the planning document during the conference.

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Strategy Conference Course Blended Learning 531

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Identify Standards and Skills Starting from a place of the standards provides teachers with a clear road map for designing both the learning activities within the playlist and the rubric they will use to assess student learning at the end of the playlist. Should I build my playlist in a digital document or slide deck? Not necessarily.

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Blended Learning Learning Assessment Microsoft 420

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 8, 2015

The challenge for me was to design an “assessment” that was meaningful. I had tried everything from the traditional book report style assessment to more creative movie trailers, but I didn’t feel like they accomplished what I wanted from a silent sustained reading assessment. Sans the wine, of course.)

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Assessment Common Core Google Meeting 150

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Today’s Sponsor Thank you to Advancement Courses for making today’s show possible. For over 30 years, Advancement Courses has been a leader in professional development, providing expertly-crafted, classroom-applicable courses to thousands of teachers across the country. This tool is essential for my classroom.

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iPad Digital Citizenship iPhone Assessment 304

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This is the second part of a two-parter where I am going into detail about how the grading system in my current course, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, is set up. The first part, where I described the big picture of the course, its learning objectives, and what a "C" and "A" semester grade should mean, is here.

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Course Analysis Assessment Outcomes 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2019

It also had its employees pose as students to take online courses for them once they were enrolled, to make sure they passed. The legal documents outlining the charges against the parent, Karen Littlefair, paint a picture of people who view college credit as something that can easily be bought as a commodity.

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Course Study Policies Company 148

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Teachers got a crash course in creating video content when schools shifted online. Screencastify allows you to insert multiple-choice questions to check for understanding and collective formative assessment. Instead, give them opportunities to document their thinking with drawings and art.

Strategy 538

Strategy UDL Blended Learning Video 538

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The engagement strategy becomes the students’ documentation of learning and their “entrance ticket” into the actual lesson. Using a digital platform to assess student learning makes it possible to quickly identify what students know or understand and surface that data quickly.

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Flipped Classroom Classroom Blended Learning Video 451

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2021

On a typical day when I visit classrooms with principals in my partner districts across the country, both the building and district leaders receive a 1000-to-5000-word document laden with practical feedback. Next, we moved on to formative assessment and then on to questioning and discussion.

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Assessment Outcomes Examples Elementary 535

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

You can upload anything you already have in your classroom, every pdf, every electronic document, or the materials you’ve purchased and add to Lumio. As you can see in the graphic, you have quick exit tickets, self-assessments, speed up games, and more that you can add to your library to easily insert into your lessons.

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Libraries Assessment Tools Google 344

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Consider less of a focus on lesson plans and more on assessment by collecting these two weeks into the future. As you come across research that supports the types of effective pedagogical techniques you wish to see in your classrooms, archive it in a document that you can refer to when writing up observations.

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Conference Strategy Assessment Personal Learning Network 472

Neo LMS

JULY 22, 2021

Compliance courses aren’t everyone’s favorites, yet risk management is no joke. One of the greatest advantages of using a learning platform is that students can take compliance courses periodically. Except that the school offers accredited courses and makes sure students actually learn the skills and demonstrate knowledge.

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EdTech Education Training Examples 351

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

Benefits of digital tools in social studies education Enhanced Accessibility : One of the primary advantages of digital tools is their ability to provide students with access to a vast array of historical documents, primary sources, and multimedia resources.

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Study Tools Khan Academy Analysis 103

Neo LMS

JUNE 7, 2022

Quizzes are the quickest way to assess student knowledge. Of course, you can also add freeform questions where students need to provide more input and you have to check each answer individually. . Moreover, students can also add attachments to essay assignments such as PowerPoint presentations or Word documents.

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LMS Survey Assessment Google 326

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Welcome to a series of posts dedicated to 21st skills and assessment. Critical Thinking: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. At the same time … how are you assessing your students? Make assessment of Critical Thinking an ongoing effort. Self assessment can be powerful).

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Assessment Education STEM Conference 158

User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Along with teaching these gifted elementary students (who I teach for multiple years), I teach graduate courses for Walden University. One of the courses is Innovative Curriculum. Of course, I went a little crazy as my elementary students just finished their sustainable city model.

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Elementary Course Meeting Groups 156

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2024

They need to be able to place their findings in the overall context of the course. Bringing the human experience to assessment Bringing the human experience into history and putting the historical interpretation into the hands of students will change how history teachers assess their students, as well.

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Secondary Analysis Learning Study 138

Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

Studies now find that performance assessments “can more authentically evaluate candidates’ readiness for teaching” while lowering the “barriers to entry,” particularly for teachers of color who are in high demand. Performance assessments like the edTPA have been found to predict teaching effectiveness.

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Policies Assessment Training Professional Learning 264

Shake Up Learning

MAY 11, 2017

The post How to Easily Assess Student Writing in Google Docs appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Assess Student Writing in Google Docs with WriQ. WriQ is currently a FREE tool that helps teachers assess writing in Google Docs. And then there’s the process of measuring progress over time. Tracking Progress.

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Assessment Google How To Course 78

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Responsible decision-making is the ability to assess a situation, understand the benefits and consequences of different responses, consider what is ethical and safe, and make kind and productive choices. When the class has defined a set of class agreements, document those expectations for behavior and post them, so they are easy to reference.

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Exercises Learning Strategy Groups 370

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

That doesn’t happen in online courses. Students can complete work early if they know they can’t comply with one of the due dates or catch up after falling a little behind without dinging their grade (unless, of course, it’s the final. That approach, of course, sapped the advantages of being online.

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Online Learning Social Media Learning LMS 312

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Nearly 2 out of every 5 eighth graders don’t even have the most basic math skills, according to the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement.

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Policies Data Study Course 141

Neo LMS

JUNE 13, 2019

Developed by University College London’s Knowledge Lab , the software is primarily designed to assess as students learn, thus removing the high-pressure, high-stakes exam format that many academics feel is an unsuitable way to assess student knowledge. Read more: 4 Ways AI will be a great teaching assistant.

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Classroom Software Assessment EdTech 255

techieMusings

JUNE 8, 2017

If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you’ve heard me talk about the Megacity Project that all 9th grade students complete in their Human Geography course. This final cornerstone assessment engages students in an extended study analyzing how megacities are transforming the world.

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Assessment EdTech Guidelines Course 77

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing to Learn: How Writing Positively Impacts Learning & Academic Success The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) states that writing is “ one of the most important skills that students acquire and develop during K-12 schooling. Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016).

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Classroom Blended Learning Handbook Analysis 259

Neo LMS

MARCH 21, 2019

What if such a machine would assess the learning progress of students and then be able to decide what one student or another should learn next? I’m talking, of course, about how natural an action is for us to use an ATM to get our money nowadays. did that with 97% accuracy, becoming the most efficient TA for that course.

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Software Adaptive Learning Course Assessment 265

The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 18, 2024

I am proud to announce the first of many documents being released by the @waospi on guidance for K12 educators in the state of Washington. Of course this type of guidance starts with state level leadership and Chris Reykdal has set the bar high for the state of Washington educators and students.

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OER UDL Training Industry 67

Linways Technologies

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Each subject needs to be properly planned, and that plan needs to be tracked along the course. So Linways provides a subject planner module that helps teachers to create a subject plan before beginning the course, and even upload course materials along with it. So sharing course-related files, taking lectures online, etc.

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LMS Strategy Outcomes Assessment 111

Hapara

JUNE 24, 2022

Educators assess and report on outcomes. It is what must be taught, assessed and reported on. Read more about concepts as part of this free, asynchronous course on conceptual understanding. . This aspect of the craft includes planning, instruction and assessment. Educators find joy and satisfaction in their craft.

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Outcomes Hapara Assessment Case Study 130

Saving Socrates

APRIL 24, 2014

The past week I have been spending a lot of time revamping Magen David''s Skills assessment rubrics to align them to the Common Core. Together someone in a social studies course, will have roughly 160 objectives they can complete during the course of a year to ensure successful acquisition of the skills based curriculum.

Assessment 85

Assessment Common Core Study Report 85

Cycles of Learning

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Second, it motivated me to reimagine how I assess my students. Keeping the above in mind, for our unit on Cellular Respiration in my freshman Biology course, rather than assign a traditional topic exam, I decide to create a variation of the 5 Levels of of Difficulty videos shown above that will serve as the assessment for this topic.

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Assessment Video Course Examples 49

eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

Aperture was on hand to demonstrate its scalable SEL solution for K-12 that grows with students and staff, from teacher-based ratings and strategies at the elementary level, to student- and teacher-facing assessment and strategy software for high school students and staff. AVer Information Inc.,

EdTech 131

EdTech Robotics Assessment STEM 131

Hapara

JULY 19, 2023

Collaborate One of the benefits of Google Docs for learners is that it increases their productivity because they can access their documents from any device. Learners don’t need their own separate documents, nor do they need to sit together in person. It also keeps them engaged if you choose a meaningful activity.

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Google Digital Citizenship Classroom Education 130

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

That not only makes it harder to gauge how well students are learning math and catching up from pandemic learning losses, but it’s also making math grades a less reliable indicator of who should be admitted to colleges or take advanced courses. However, neutral observers have also found strong evidence of high school grade inflation.

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Analysis STEM Report Trends 143

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Since TeacherIn’s beta went live at the beginning of the year, it has gained over 110,000 users globally, and more than 25,000 courses have been created. While traditional document editors function on standalone files, courseware creators can now build an entire curriculum in ClassIn.

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LMS Company Course Assessment 85