Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor Christian Miraglia, Educational Consultant for T4Edtech, reminds us that how we used it at first is probably not how we use it now: I Need an Idea, and I Need it Now! The discussion was based on the research of primary and secondary documents and was quite creative.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

The results of large-scale tests may be used by schools or policy-makers to make important decisions such as grouping students by ability or assessing how well schools are doing. Across Canada, researchers and educators have documented the need to transform how the provinces assess literacy and consider more innovative designs.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Within six months of high school graduation, only 51 percent of the class of 2022 enrolled in post-secondary education, down from 56 percent from the class of 2019. The city had been improving rapidly before the pandemic and it’s depressing that its bleak education statistics have sharply deteriorated.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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Lightspeed Systems

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As primary and secondary schooling takes up a large portion of a child’s life, it’s at school where struggling children are frequently identified. Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) is a conceptual framework that prompts educators to provide personalized academic and behavioral strategies for students with diverse needs.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2022

The benefits of esports are well documented. Thus far, conversations around esports have centered on collegiate and secondary levels, however, a recent change in the winds has shifted the conversation to elementary esports. I could design a camp without worrying about standards alignment, summative assessments, or grades.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Download the Thank You Project – Word Document. She was nominated by a colleague for the Teachers that Rock – Class of 2018, and by her principal and supervisor for the 2017 New Jersey Exemplary Secondary Educator award. ” PowerSchool is my only recommended SIS and LMS.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. Yet, understanding this history is crucial to understanding the meandering path we are on with respect to determining the best and appropriate future role for the federal government with respect to educational technology – a task I have set out for myself in a series of posts on this very topic.

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Hapara

MAY 19, 2022

History class: By the end of class, students will be able to explain how technological advancements during WWI affected soldiers, as evidenced by creating a main claim and supporting that claim with primary and secondary source documents. Design assessments to measure understanding . para Dashboard.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

In his latest EdSurge column , Michael Horn laid out how Google Maps offers an aspirational metaphor for what the future of educational tools could look like. Yet there are several initiatives, some of which I’ve had the privilege of working on, that aim to support the educational data ecosystem necessary for learner navigation.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

2020 and 2021 saw $190 billion in federal relief funds go to schools through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). The answer–or, more accurately, answers–offers a glimpse into the complicated state of post- COVID education. But why aren’t schools spending the money?

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

Either way, the result is expanded course offerings and learning opportunities for students to personalize and individualize their educational experience. Other documents, like periodic check-in forms, are also available on the site. This is taken into account when they are assessed for their work.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I hope you are enjoying this series on formative assessment, and I am sure you will find these tools most valuable. Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. In this article I wish to focus on how educational games provide a wonderful learning experience perhaps going well beyond content.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 13, 2019

higher education is on the forefront of this transition. Primary and secondary schools are swiftly responding to the evidence in support of active learning. In 2018 a Forbes education contributor wrote that the top learning trend in K-12 classrooms was active learning spaces. In the U.S., To date, more than 200 U.S. Peer review.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The post What is G Suite for Education? What is G Suite for Education? Whether you are brand new to Google or a seasoned user, there are probably a few things you don’t know about G Suite for Education. If you want to become a Google Certified Educator or Trainer, you need to learn the basics of G Suite for Education.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

I remember when I went one-to-one with devices in my secondary English classrooms. When iPads are added to the pedagogical equation, the recipe for curriculum, instruction, and assessment changes. Chrome may be ideal for students in schools using the G Suite for Education. Google Chrome. Google Keep. Microsoft OneNote.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2016

Its roots can be traced back to the 1990s when Congress reauthorized Johnson’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Improving America’s Schools Act (IASA) required the development or adoption of state assessments and tied them to Title I funds. Teachers intentionally and frequently use formative assessment.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The benefits of esports are well documented. Thus far, conversations around esports have centered on collegiate and secondary levels, however, a recent change in the winds has shifted the conversation to elementary esports. I could design a camp without worrying about standards alignment, summative assessments, or grades.

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Elementary STEM Digital Citizenship Video 119

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Laurence’s College in Brisbane had just 50 minutes to write up a formative assessment on the representation of robots and artificial intelligence in the movies. Gunn estimates that by avoiding those hassles and little things like having to send emails of annotated documents, she saves 10 minutes out of every 50-minute lesson.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 12, 2021

Reg Leichty provided an overview of the two key federal regulations regarding student data and privacy, starting with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The student data covered by FERPA includes any files, documents, or records in other formats that contain information directly related to a student.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michelle McLaughlin said Michael’s education did not prepare him for college or career. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Our son’s education was a waste. Higher Education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Our primary goal is to build a world-class-quality K-12 technology service system, including achieving Level 2 in the ‘process and results’ categories of the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Education.”. Scott Hayhurst, teacher, Okanagan Mission Secondary School, Canada. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

“When you look at college mission statements, they’re loaded with grand pronouncements about the skills and habits of mind they’re going to inspire in their students,” said Alexander McCormick, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

Nicola Soares, vice president and managing director for Kelly Educational Staffing at Kelly Services, who has her finger on the pulse of employment and hiring trends. Sean Gallagher: I would put the microcredentialing trend as a major sub-theme within a broader conversation about job outcomes and competency-based education.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What does assessment look like in 21st Century education? So a summative test like the PARCC is a good tool but not the only way that we should be assessing our students throughout the school year. Assessment should not only be summative but also formative, ongoing, and project-based. Image Credit: Kyle Pearce.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

In this case, we might offer, “If we look at document C, this supports what _ is saying because…” or “I agree with ’s thinking about… because in Document B the author writes…” Following this framing, the discussion begins. To maximize participation and use of the strategy, we provide discussion stems for the habit.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Abolishing the routine of announced observations, having teachers provide artifacts of evidence to show the bigger picture since you can never see all that is done in a single observation, and prioritizing the collection assessments over lesson plans can also be effective.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 7, 2021

This could be used before a lesson as a kind of front-loading or after a lesson as an informal assessment or reinforcement and review. For assessment, you could have students Pair & Share, then leave takeaways on an exit slip.). Affinity Groups. Remote Teaching and eLearning Friendly? Somewhat. Talking Circles. Podcasting.

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techlearning

JUNE 20, 2018

June 20, 2018) – Tennessee’s Hamilton County Schools (HCS) today announced it has selected Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms to support its inquiry-based teaching and learning initiative. This vision also extends to high schools through the Future Ready Institutes.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

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iLearn Technology

APRIL 23, 2018

In the science classroom, students can: share each step of an experiment through the scientific method with each step being a new video, document dissection, reflect on failures, show the process of building or designing, make predictions, document process, demonstrate, post wonderings, or class challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

One way teachers can help students acquire these skills is through the process known to language educators as syntax. Higher Education. Yet if we gave them documents on solid fuel propulsion, nuclear medicine and astrophysics, they would become struggling readers. There is an answer, and it is not a mystery. Weekly Update.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

See this document for links to example year long calendars by day (more detailed) or by week (general unit names only). Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. Assessments on Fridays: I used to do a quiz in math every other Friday. Consider a weekly or biweekly pattern.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Like a handful of states, New Hampshire is taking the opportunity provided by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to revise its accountability measures to further individualize education. Claire Voorhees, national policy director, Foundation for Excellence in Education. Parents saw curriculums narrowing.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Global Educator Institute (GEI) has introduced a new twist to the traditional “ Seal of Approval ” model. Created specifically to serve the educational market, GEI places learning products into the hands of teachers, who evaluate them based on classroom use and a vigorous assessment process. Our goal is very simple.

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