Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

Qzzr (now part of Riddle): Interactive Engagement Positioned as an interactive content creation platform, Qzzr empowers users to design quizzes, surveys, and polls. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 2, 2019

Today when we talk about education, we only talk about three things: the curriculum, the teacher and the assessments,” Zhao told attendees at the Consortium for School Networking’s 2019 annual conference keynote session, Envisioning the Skills Students Need: 2030. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read about the top three elements of digital citizenship.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In a McKinsey survey of young people and employers in nine countries, 40% of employers said lack of skills was the main reason for entry-level job vacancies. In the same survey, 60% of employers said that new graduates were not adequately prepared for the world of work. Read more: DOs and DON’Ts of teaching digital citizenship.

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Hapara

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a study conducted on behalf of the Alliance for Excellent Education, 79 percent of the parents surveyed, who were from underserved communities, expressed concern that one-size-fits-all education was short-changing their children. Through Hāpara Highlights , teachers can personalize digital citizenship support.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 13, 2018

polls, forms, or surveys. It is a robust, intuitive tool that makes forms and surveys easy to create for teachers and a snap to join for students (for example, no login required — just a class code). Polls, forms, and surveys. Survey Monkey. It works on most platforms and all digital devices.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

There are certification tracks on Google, Microsoft, Apple, SMART, among other topics, like online assessment, STEM, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and PBL. Edmentum’s new solution pairs adaptive diagnostic assessments with individualized learning paths. All of these courses and certifications are now CTLE approved.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Our learners have assignments, assessments, permission slips, school communications and Google files to keep track of. Learners need to plan how they’ll finish homework assignments, complete steps for a project or prepare for an assessment. It’s a lot to keep on top of as an adult. Does ADHD affect executive function?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As you might know there are some amazing formative assessment tools on the web. First, to ensure you do not miss a valuable post or other resources covering PBL, Digital Curriculum, Web 2.0, Not only can the formative assessment process be engaging, it can also be owned by students. Create A Survey. Start a discussion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2018

polls and surveys on upcoming or past events. Survey Monkey. They can also be tools that are easily integrated into warm-ups, exit tickets, and/or formative assessments such as these popular examples: Socrative. It is free with a pro version, online, and available on all platforms and all digital devices. Google Forms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2019

In my summer digital citizenship classes, the biggest question I get is how to control student cell phone usage. For a documentary, Screenager: Growing up on in the Digital Age , a survey was conducted which had more than 1,200 parents of middle school students as respondents. More on digital devices.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

Results can be then assessed and graded accordingly, which facilitates the overall learning experience immensely. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Extended Access to Education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 5, 2016

There are lots of free survey and polling sites (two popular options are PollDaddy and Survey Monkey ), but often they limit the number of surveys you can create or how many questions you can include without ‘leveling up’ to a premium version. Here are my top ten favorites: Create an assessment. Collect data.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In 2009, a National Center for Education Statistics survey showed that about 90% of schools prohibited cell phones during school hours. In fact, according to a survey from Common Sense Media: …35% of students say they use cell phones to cheat. One topic I always ask students is how they manage cell phone usage in their classes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2018

Nine out of 17 schools in the Coeur d’Alene School District (CdA) receive Title I Funding, and according to the 2016 National Education Association survey , Idaho ranks last in per-pupil spending and 47th in the nation for average teacher salary. How NOT to Assess Student Writing. We’re not utopia, we have a lot of challenges,”.

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JANUARY 29, 2016

Kahoot is a response system that has taken over classrooms all over the country to assess student learning. The teacher creates a quiz or survey on the Kahoot website. S/he invites students to join with a game pin, which they enter into pretty much any digital device used in the classroom (smart phones, Chromebooks, iPads, or another).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2017

Engage students in a discussion forum or a survey. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Create, conduct and grade quizzes. Assign, collect, review and grade assignments. adding assignments.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In fact, a recent survey shows that most bullying is verbal and the vast majority is in person. [ Why Student Creation is the Hardest/Best Form of Assessment ] This information is not meant to minimize the traumatic impact cyberbullying can have. There is help available. Kerry is a TEDx & keynote speaker and a lawyer by training.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Why not have students vote on what attributes are most important using a survey or polling tool such as Poll Everywhere ? You may find that digitizing a “Making Thinking Visible Tool” from Project Zero at Harvard could be powerful. It could start in small groups and go out to the entire class. What an amazing world we live in!

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Learning.com , provider of comprehensive digital literacy curriculum, has announced a partnership with Common Sense Education. Spring Math’s interactive platform combines streamlined tools for assessment, reporting, and intervention to provide a clear path to math achievement. zSpace Inc.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The questionnaire is deliberately short (thirteen-sixteen questions, depending upon which version you take) in order to prevent student survey fatigue. Start with an open-minded assessment of the student’s learning style using the VARK questionnaire or one of several other learning style inventories. How do you get started?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2018

Teachers get tangled in a web of standards, mission statements, and assessments, and spend too much time on what their institution considers essential. Make it an extension of what is learned not an assessment, a repeat, or dreaded rote drills. A thinking brain can’t be corralled. Assign homework. Want to be an MLB player?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

To be honest, I didn’t find this in the other collaborative whiteboards either that I surveyed prior to selecting SyncSpace (though GroupBoard does offer a chat function). She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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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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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Last week, I was introducing digital formative assessment tools to a group of seventh-grade teachers. I then told him how he could create a ‘class’ of teachers in Google Classroom to push out information, professional articles and videos and surveys to his staff.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Develop a rubric that assess online discussion alignment with standards being used. Include your students in some digital citizenship activities. Perhaps it might be a collective spreadsheet, a slide presentation, a drawing, or the use of a form to conduct a survey. Include an online discussion forum to further the event.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Establish a digital repository of Internet filtering studies. Conduct research to explore the educational uses of social media platforms and assess the impact of filtering in schools. Digital Citizenship Curriculum by Common Sense Education. Digital Citizenship by OSAPAC. Teacher Resources by MediaSmarts.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2012

20% of the 6th graders they surveyed in their Seattle school had Facebook accounts. Help kids leverage all of the resources available to them as they assess where they are and what they want. About three years ago presenters started to notice a shift to more social media use by middle schoolers. By high school, this rises to 90%.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

Rod Federwisch & Karen Goss Assessing and Developing Modern Language Fluency For Global Communication - Harry Tuttle, Ed.D. History Survey Course: Free, Collaborative, and Self-Paced Professional Development - Craig J. Reed 11:00am Making a Better World: Digital Citizenship Resources for K-12 - Kelly Mendoza, Sr.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2023

3 PDF Element PDF element offers form creation and filling capabilities, empowering teachers to design interactive worksheets, assessment forms, and surveys. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

Recent research is fueling debate about the role that digital media may play in strengthening educational opportunities for all students. Common Sense has been among the nation’s pivotal advocates in promoting digital citizenship and inclusion and in leading efforts to reverse the " app gap."

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

Recent research is fueling debate about the role that digital media may play in strengthening educational opportunities for all students. Common Sense has been among the nation’s pivotal advocates in promoting digital citizenship and inclusion and in leading efforts to reverse the " app gap."

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Presented as a left-center-right scale, the rating is determined using levels of bias verification that include: b lind surveys, t hird party data, c ommunity feedback, e ditorial reviews, s econdary research and a confidence level. Registered teachers access a host of tools, lesson plans and assessments, as well as email updates.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It has become increasingly possible to personalize learning–adapt resources and assessments to student skills and needs and differentiate lessons that are pushed out to individual students or small groups ( read: Shifting my Teacher Mindset with Micro-credentials ). Constructive Conversations – Assessing Student Conversations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Have them take the following surveys: Edutopia’s Multiple Intelligences quiz . The next time your summative assessment is a report, let students choose their ‘writing’ method. When you first bring this up in your class, don’t be surprised if kids have no idea what you’re talking about.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Have them take the following surveys: Edutopia’s Multiple Intelligences quiz . The next time your summative assessment is a report, let students choose their ‘writing’ method. When you first bring this up in your class, don’t be surprised if kids have no idea what you’re talking about.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 17, 2016

Make sure your students practice proper digital citizenship and privacy. In order to capture student words, have them digitally input them using the Web 2.0 Illustrate classroom thoughts or views using a word cloud to survey students. Keep in mind that word clouds are a Web 2.0 tools Write with Me or Google Forms.

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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? These assessments might be used to engage learners in discussion before an inquiry.

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