Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA), often equated with Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM), is any form of assessment that measures progress toward fulfillment of a stated curriculum. CBAs are useful not only to measure student learning within a unit but over time toward larger goals. How does it work.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As educators, one of our primary goals is to make learning as effective and engaging as possible. But what exactly is prior knowledge, and why is it so essential in the learning process? Prior knowledge refers to the information, concepts, skills, and attitudes that students have acquired before encountering new learning material.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 24, 2020

When teachers use video to transfer information online, I encourage them to blend that video content into a complete learning experience. Teachers can present students with an unfamiliar problem or prompt to pique their interest, ask them to generate questions about a topic, or assess their prior knowledge. Google Forms Kahoot!

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User Generated Education

MAY 5, 2018

Institutionalized education has given assessment a bad reputation; often leaves a sour taste in the mouths of many teachers, students, and laypeople. This is primarily due to the testing movement, the push towards using student assessment in the form of tests as a measure of student, teacher, principal, and school accountability.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

It will also help you with both formative and summative assessments, and it will enter your grades into any electronic grade book directly from GradeCam. Simple Assessments of All Kinds. First, let’s look at the ways you can use GradeCam for assessments. Setting up assessments is fast and easy. Make assessment simple.

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User Generated Education

MAY 21, 2017

The most powerful learning often happens when students self-monitor, or reflect. Students may not always be aware of what they are learning and experiencing. Documenting Learning. Silvia Tolisano sees documenting learning as: a process of intentional documenting serves a metacognitive purpose.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Screencastify and Screencasting for Formative Assessment (a sponsored post) From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Screencasting is a useful assessment tool. While I use it for my video tutorials, I also have my students make their own screencasts to help me assess their progress.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Teachers are designing learning experiences for a range of learning landscapes. If teachers design a “choose your own adventure” learning experience, students can enjoy some voice and choice in the experience and control the pace at which they process information and complete tasks.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2024

Students should be learning the contextual background of a subject and working on the skills they need to critically analyze social studies content. The performance assessment of oral histories could be in the form of podcasts, movies, interviews, as well as the more traditional writing. Because the curriculum in a class like AP U.S.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Responsible decision-making is the ability to assess a situation, understand the benefits and consequences of different responses, consider what is ethical and safe, and make kind and productive choices. They know what makes them feel safe and supported in learning environments. What is responsible decision-making? Click to copy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Classroom management tools are useful for teachers to create an organized, productive, and conducive learning environment. ” Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. . ” Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Practices such as BYOD, 1:1, blended learning, personalized learning, classroom and school redesign, branding, makerspaces, professional learning, etc. One of these tools is the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA). This need served as a call to action of sorts and catalyzed my current work.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2018

Why Teachers Should Digitally Document Evidence Of Learning contributed by Shelley Hudson For early elementary teachers, measuring student learning is especially challenging. Early elementary teachers assess student learning through 1:1 conversations, student artwork and more. Seeking […].

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

We’ve developed “Look for” documents to support teachers and administrators in envisioning how this fusion could work in elementary and middle school classrooms. What are “Look for” documents? In this context, a CT “Look for” document defines and makes CT practices measurable by identifying subcomponents of each CT practice.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As a teacher, I constantly hear about their desire to learn by doing, see how things develop, contribute to and witness the results of their work. Students use their voice and choice, developing 21st-century skills in an authentic learning environment. 7 Digital tools for project-based learning that any teacher can use.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This 3-part blog series, featuring guest authors from Michigan Virtual , describes the formation of the Learning Continuity Workgroup and how it has supported their edtech procurement and decision-making processes. When we formed the Michigan Virtual Learning Continuity Workgroup in April 2020, we knew these struggles all too well.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In the last two blogs, I have focused on strategies teachers can use to 1) assess prior knowledge before a lesson and 2) check for understanding during a lesson. I’ve suggested that teachers build mechanisms into their lessons to collect formative assessment data. Learning Log/Blog. Sketchnotes. Exit Ticket. Tell Me How.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic. The primary purpose of encouraging students to jot down a research paper is to assess their writing and research skills.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The power of interactive learning platforms to enhance student learning outcomes is undeniable. To conquer this challenge, read on to see key factors to consider in choosing an interactive learning platform. To conquer this challenge, read on to see key factors to consider in choosing an interactive learning platform.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 16, 2022

The post Emoji Assessments for Any Classroom – SULS0168 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode, I’m sharing ideas for using emojis in your informal and formative assessments. Use emojis to create a key to check for understanding, reflect, self-assess, peer-assess, or give feedback!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It is filled with thoughts on Student Communication Skills including “I can” statement(s), classroom attributes, and assessment rubrics. I look forward to learning from you! Communication: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. A baby learns the art of Communication through the very need to Communicate.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) announced it is entering into a partnership with Aperture Education to provide a statewide SEL assessment for K-12 schools. Additionally, there is a supplemental assessment to target specific areas of need for individual students based on results of the primary assessment.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

First, let’s establish the value of the flipped classroom in case you have never used this blended learning model. The benefit of assigning video instruction for homework is that students can control the time, place, and pace of the learning experience when they watch the video at home. They can pause, rewind, or rewatch a video.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2018

I regularly work with teachers who like the idea of trying new teaching strategies, blended learning models, and technology tools, but they don’t have the time or energy to experiment. Unfortunately, that mentality robs students of opportunities to learn. A major barrier to innovation in the classroom is teacher exhaustion.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Metacognition is defined as thinking about one’s thinking or learning. More formally, “metacognition was originally referred to as the knowledge about and the regulation of one’s cognitive activities in learning processes” (Veenman, Van Hout-Wolters, & Afflerbach, 2006, p.3). I believe that is a problem.

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Hapara

JULY 3, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] There are so many learning possibilities for students online. Students can also learn concepts through multimedia, online collaboration, virtual simulations, open educational resources and more. It’s the same for online learning. We will keep our online passwords private.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Kimberly Sheppard is a personalized learning coach for Henry County Schools in Georgia. In that capacity, she is participating—along with eighty or so of her Henry County colleagues—in the Assessment for Learning micro-credential project , led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Assessments have a bad rap in schools. But the word assessment describes vastly different things. Subscribe today!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 13, 2020

It is filled with thoughts on Creativity including “I can” statement(s), classroom attributes, and assessment rubrics. I look forward to learning from you! Creativity: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. A classroom that promotes Creativity puts students at the center of learning.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 1, 2019

As elementary students learn how to read, teachers administer reading fluency tests and listen to students read passages. Nothing can replace this formal assessment, but it’s helpful to teach students to track their words per minute between these reading fluency assessments. This can be useful as they design lessons!

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 8, 2015

The challenge for me was to design an “assessment” that was meaningful. I had tried everything from the traditional book report style assessment to more creative movie trailers, but I didn’t feel like they accomplished what I wanted from a silent sustained reading assessment. Learning'

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There are more opportunities for social learning and human interaction. As architects of learning experiences, teachers should focus on providing that human connection to students working remotely. Below I will explore three blended learning models–the station rotation model, the flipped learning model, and the playlist model.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Get better assessment results. Take teaching and learning to the next level. In this conversation, we discuss the implementation and impact of Unrulr in his classroom, where he tries to focus on creating a more human and reflective learning experience. This reflective approach is seen as essential for meaningful learning.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Jeff sits down with Vikram to discuss why Edusight is simply the best standards-based portfolio to help teachers document student achievement. The post Learn Why @Edusight is an awesome Portfolio Tool For Documenting Student Achievement appeared first on TeacherCast. About Edusight.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Welcome to a series of posts dedicated to 21st skills and assessment. It seems educators and industry are all talking about the importance of student collaboration, but how are we facilitating and assessing this skill. Collaboration: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Online learning has become not only a common alternative to physical classes, but a well-regarded change maker in the education ecosystem. After a weekly one-hour session, students feel closer to classmates and often add them to their ongoing PLN (Professional Learning Network). ” Ignore Innocent Mistakes. Simplify Tech Skills.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As I work with teachers navigating the demands of this moment, I share the lesson I learned early on in my career. It is the educators who understand this truth and design and facilitate learning experiences that align with this truth who have had the most success navigating this challenging moment in education. During the Conference.

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