21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

Welcome to post number three in a series devoted to formative learning (assessment). Please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. Part 3: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. OER Possibilities. Control… Or No.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 98

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Before investigating these resources, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. Continue to explore all of the simulations, formative assessments, and lessons. Nova Labs – Discover this site that provides real labs, real data, and you.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS, and also give me a follow-on Twitter at mjgormans. G is for Grounded in Assessment: The ABC’s of PBL … Building Blocks, Elements, & Compounds of Deeper Learning by Michael Gorman at [link]. Formative and Summative Assessment. Hope to see you there!

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Assessment Conference Learning E-rate 99

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS, and also give me a follow… on Twitter at mjgormans. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Best of all, they are free and contain quality resources.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Before investigating these resources, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. Gap Minder – Explore this amazing world of data.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Data collection for planning.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

First, please take a moment to subscribe to this blog by RSS or email and join me on twitter at mjgormans . West Virginia PBL Project Data Base – This is a wonderful site where teachers can search through the subjects of reading, language arts, math, science, social studies, dance, visual arts, theater, and music.

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Resources OER Learning STEM 105

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

As always, I invite you to follow me on twitter ( @mjgormans ). Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Relevant Nouns – Planets, Solar System, Orbit, Gravity (OER Resources). Explore Gooru’s ability to provide lessons with formative assessment and feedback.

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Blendspace Resources OER Technology 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. OER Commons. About: One of the largest data bases of OER (Open Education Resources) for free classroom use. Highlights: Lesson Builder, Searchable by standards and subject.

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Resources Tools Technology OER 60

Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

Given the rise of OER (of which I am a fan ), an increasing array of business models, questions about the degree of alignment to state standards and assessments, claims of effectiveness, and interoperability concerns, the instructional materials procurement decisions facing school districts have never been more complicated.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Real ti me feedback from students for formative assessment. Typeonline -The typing tutorials on this site also include lessons on how to use a keyboard number pad for those who may need to enter a lot of numerical data. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. If you are motivated by fun and competition then this is the site for you.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

As always, I invite you to follow me on twitter ( @mjgormans ). Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Students might use a Google Form to collect and analyze data. They may also employ a layer of tools in a spreadsheet to represent the data to an audience.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Please spread the word and tell people about the Summit forward this email , or post on social media Hashtag: #homelearningsummit Twitter: @homelearnsummit Facebook: @homelearningsummit Instagram: homelearningsummit HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS WE ARE WORKING TO COVER IN THE SUMMIT TALKS, INTERVIEWS, AND OPEN-CHAT TIMES : ADHD and Learning ?

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information? The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

in August has released an assessment on the university’s response and what it could have done better. danah boyd has announced that she’ll be stepping down from running her research organization Data & Society. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via The New York Times : “In Her Words: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Assesses a Year on the Job.” Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” Related, via Wired : “ Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting.”

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

” The program in question: The Global Assessment Certificate program. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. “The data we don’t store cannot be stolen from us,” founder Hadi Partovi writes in a blog post. . Via the Sunlight Foundation : “A look at local education data policies.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

“ Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : ”Why Twitter Is Calling Abigail Fisher ’ Becky With the Bad Grades ’: A Brief Explainer.” ” “ Northwest Evaluation Association To Enter State Assessment Market,” says Education Week. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” Amazingly dumb.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

. “Schools across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance – attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data,” according to Chalkbeat’s Matt Barnum. A sobering assessment and a warning.”

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