Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Here are three general guidelines: The app must improve outcomes. EdPuzzle, now used in half of American schools, allows teachers to crop and format existing videos, add text, their voice, and questions, as well as other options that will enhance the usefulness of videos as teaching and assessment tools.

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Khan Academy Android iPad Google 228

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 18, 2016

With the not-so-recent addition of audio and video files (easily embedded from sites like Instagram and Periscope ), educators can easily use it as a student-friendly approach to everything from assessment to sharing notes. Before unpacking Twitter in your classroom, here are a few guidelines: Clear its use with your administration.

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Twitter Social Media Digital Citizenship Flipped Classroom 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Much of our teacher professional development focuses on use of programs or tools, but falls short when it comes to imparting best practices around teaching and learning methods, digital and in-person instruction, differentiated assessment and data analysis. The best programs feature teachers who are strong in all these areas.

Blended Learning 125

Blended Learning Pearson Learning E-rate 125

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Vote and possibly win $4000 of technology from CDW – I recently supplied CDW a list of products that I thought would be great for a Podcasting/Webinar Production/Flip Classroom Studio. In an online discussion students find that their ideas are valuable and enjoy seeing this alternative assessment to affirm this.

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Tools Digital Citizenship Learning STEM 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

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. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192