Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. There are many stories of people developing and sustaining friendship, or even romance and eventual marriage, after ''meeting'' on a social media site. He''s having a whale of a time. The stories go on and on.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 28, 2017

Social media is an increasingly important part of students' lives; in fact, the average teen spends over an hour a day using social media. To be true digital citizens, our students need teachers who model pro-social, creative, and responsible social media use.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 27, 2016

When learners create their own infographics they are telling a story of what their data, information, research and facts mean. They are creating a meaningful connection with the data, which is a powerful way to learn STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Infographics for assessment. More Resources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 13, 2018

In the hands of students, Twitter is commonly viewed as a gossipy distraction that takes students away from the important work done at class and home. Students sign into personal accounts (when age-appropriate) or a class Twitter account. Twitter can also be used as a poll or a warmup/exit ticket. Polls, forms, and surveys.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

The data that do exist point to some barely-there trendlines, fortunately. Social media, contrary to its reputation, actually seems to improve certain prosocial behaviors—empathy, to name one—in teenage populations. Scores actually improved the more the kids used social media. Hurtful or helpful? Like I said.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Data & the Environment Lesson Plans Use data to learn about environmental justice and corporate sustainability efforts in grab-and-go digital lesson bundles from Discover Data—a data literacy initiative powered by the Nielsen Foundation in collaboration with Discovery Education and the National AfterSchool Association.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 31, 2017

These posts will take us through Twitter chats and how you can participate in real time or whenever you want. From there we looked at Formative Assessment and how easy it is to do today. Diversify Through Social Media Social media is an almost constant part of our daily lives. Take Pinterest for example.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

OCTOBER 16, 2012

This topic came up in last night''s #engchat on Twitter about college admissions essays. Students tracking their digital footprint could make for a horrifying or surprising project and very relevant in this world where social media puts one''s actions on full display. Tagxedo collects the tweets and creates the word cloud.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. Seminars I attended included: using social media to spread the word. copyrights.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

One of the fastest growing technologies in education is forms–to gather information, curate data, test students, and much more. New questions can be dependent upon the user’s response to prior questions and completed forms are shared via a link, social media, or integrated into DropBox, Google Docs, and other popular platforms.

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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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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 27, 2018

The research also included computational analysis of Twitter data associated with respondents, as well as a Twitter panel of 135,891 college-age people. There are many pathways to news–not only on social media. Students share news on social media as stewards of what’s important to know.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

There are so many ways that kids can creatively show you their learning in a timely and efficient manner, and ways teachers can conduct assessments that take away the testing anxiety that plagues so many kids. Creative Formative Assessments Can Help: Save time assessing students. Now, Information is literally at our fingertips.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 5, 2016

You can even integrate a Twitter hash tag. Let’s use the power of social media to crowd source even more examples. There is really no excuse not to honor the voice of your respective audience, whether they are students or adults. This is a great tool to use for a backchannel. Tozzl – Take your backchannel to a new level!

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Anne Collier on episode 169 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. And once you block, sometimes you lose all that data… so you can’t say and show what’s happening. ’s new social media helpline for schools.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Enjoy the read and please know you can contect me anytime at mjgormans@gmail.com or on my X(Twitter) Feed mjgormans. By using AI, we can also look at lots of data to find patterns and understand how students are doing. Seek guidance on creating a rubric for assessing science experiments.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

A conversation with Jon Corippo on episode 92 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Twitter handle: @jcorippo. Jon’s core PL skills are focused on 1:1 deployment, Common Core, Project Based Learning, social media skills and Lesson Design.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I hope you enjoy it and look forward to hearing your feedback on social media. Formative Assessment So I, I want to minimize the confusion, but I also again bear that's with that formative assessment. You'll be glad that you did.

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Edthena

AUGUST 29, 2022

Just like technology or social media can at times be distracting for students , turn off your own Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or even email to stay on task! If everyone already knows what the data means and what to do about them, then data analysis will fall flat. C ut out unproductive behavior.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

As an administrator in the 21st century, I constantly think about ways to effectively communicate with our parents and the tools that our faculty can use to extend and expand the way we share academic, behavioral, and social data with the families of children whom we serve. Tip #1: School Social Networking Accounts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Insurance companies often need data—in the form of photos and reports—when claims are filed. For insurance, you need to make sure you’re tracking the info correctly and putting it into a format where the insurance company can actually leverage the data coming in. The time to review policies is before a disaster strikes, Schad says.

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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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EdTechTeam

JULY 27, 2019

With that goal in mind, I set about establishing various ways to apply the core aspects of the show into student-created assessments, professional development wrap-ups, and much more. Developing a culminating assessment for the end of the unit? Make a copy of their slide decks and share them on social media.

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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. Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Amy Fast on episode 171 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I have this conceptual framework in my book, and it’s something that I share sometimes on Twitter. We can measure their soft skills with their own self-assessment or rubrics that teachers have.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 12, 2016

AnswerGarden looks like what would happen if Twitter, TodaysMeet, Padlet and Wordle and Tagxedo had a little baby app. assess prior knowledge. assess prior knowledge. It is easy to share your AnswerGardens on social media or to embed on a website, LibGuide, LMS, etc. It takes under 10 minutes to master. brainstorm.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Discovery Education’s Techbook series saves teachers’ time with a comprehensive design that places model lessons, student activities and assessments at their fingertips. Additionally, the Techbooks are platform neutral and can be used in any instructional environment.

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Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I share helpful links for educators on Twitter and Facebook everyday. Let's see what resonated on social media in 2017. In addition, Twitter Analytics provides me all sorts of statistics about my tweets. In addition, Twitter Analytics provides me all sorts of statistics about my tweets. Google Document URL Tricks.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2015

National-level conferences like ISTE and ASCD, district PD, school PD, professional learning communities, data teams, “PD-style staff meetings,” books, blogs—there are so many incredible resources being updated literally as you read this, that the challenge is more about knowing where to start than finding suitable content.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When appropriate, students can learn to share their work through social media or sites like Youth Voices , extending their sense of audience, purpose, and genre that comes from a foundation of good writing instruction. Assessing one’s own writing and providing feedback to peers both help to move students forward as writers.

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The Web20Classroom

MAY 5, 2010

One of the complaints I get and hear about Twitter, specifically, educators on Twitter, is that it is an echo chamber. There are tons of people both on Twitter and off who are taking their message to the masses. But I believe it is the way data is used, not collected that is the problem. Here are some of my thoughts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 3, 2018

Mark Wise on episode 223 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A district is assessing itself with a massive project for 800 eighth graders. How to Assess Your District: The Global Challenge Project is an Example. Each year we get data on that.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 12, 2015

With access to the cloud, all data sources and project materials are constantly available, allowing for previously inaccessible levels and styles of revision and collaboration. Here, learners plan topic, sequence, audience, and application via facilitation of teachers who now act as experts of resource and assessment. Transparent.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The Techbook series saves teachers’ time with a comprehensive design that places model lessons, student activities and assessments at their fingertips. PPSD’S educators will also be supported by the Discovery Education Community as they transform students’ learning experiences with dynamic digital media.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Every time you hit post on Twitter, update or add to Facebook, share a photo on Instagram, or even “like” a page or a Facebook or any social media, you add to your digital footprint. Every computer has an internal number, so if you write something negative online, it is recorded.

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The Reflective Practitioner

APRIL 22, 2014

I found the image on the left on Twitter tonight from @techgirljenny. I love that it 100% promotes the idea of getting professional development through social media, specifically Twitter. And Jenny nails Twitter on the head – It’s daily. It’s random. It’s frequently amazing. Yes, yes, and yes.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Students use social media to tell stories of “bad” teachers. State tests and other common assessments expose learning gaps – data is used by almost every school district to measure the effectiveness of (and compare) educators. Follow him on Twitter @newteacherhelp.

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