Graphite Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

When students write to do well on assessments, they use a soul-crushing paint-by-numbers approach. This formulaic writing might work for assessments, but doesn’t work for readers or writers. When Old Technologies Were New. Every innovation is touted as transforming or destroying our world.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MARCH 9, 2015

In addition to its free on-demand digital library filled with popular books, Curriculet now allows students to read news articles with embedded assessments that develop literacy skills and build subject area knowledge. Curriculet’s real-time reporting feature lets teachers track student achievement in every assignment.

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Brainscape

MAY 18, 2022

Evernote also allows you to use your smartphone camera to scan hard copy documents (like other students’ notes, the whiteboard, or your textbooks), which saves you from carrying around a back-breaking load of books. But, make no mistake, My Study Life is no pedestrian calendar.

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

Noakes: She recommended a needs assessment, as Diamond outlined, but said schools often look at the curricular content or internal infrastructure only. Noakes emphasized that the process must include an equity assessment—can all of the students and teachers access the tech outside of school? She thinks the industry is lagging behind.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.” “ 18 States Are Suing Betsy DeVos Over For-Profit College Rules ,” Buzzfeed reports. ” Education in the Courts. ” Icon credits: The Noun Project

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Graphite Blog

MAY 17, 2018

Episode description: Introducing the essential details and providing real interviews with the main characters, Sarah Koenig reports on a true story from Woodlawn High School in Baltimore. Computer speakers typically work fine, as do portable smartphone speakers, fancy Bluetooth speakers, and even portable boom boxes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 17, 2018

Episode description: Introducing the essential details and providing real interviews with the main characters, Sarah Koenig reports on a true story from Woodlawn High School in Baltimore. Computer speakers typically work fine, as do portable smartphone speakers, fancy Bluetooth speakers, and even portable boom boxes.

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MSEDTechie

AUGUST 11, 2012

They have to write a report, and create a presentation. This required students to type a report in a word processing document, then use poster board to cut out, and paste, draw, sketch, etc. Perfect for self-assessment purposes for foreign language classrooms. pictures of the famous person.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

This program adds full home access for students, custom curriculum alignment, performance reporting, professional development, and more. The 1216BKBT Bluetooth Jackbox provides a cost-efficient way to stream audio from a smartphone, tablet or other Bluetooth-enabled device to six separate headphones. No bubbles required. Illuminate 11.0

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Philosophically, these are all good definitions, but after fifteen years teaching K-8 technology and grad school, I know ‘digital literacy’ is much more complicated than a couple of sentences, especially when we’re talking about students baptized in iPads and smartphones. That’s social media. Cloud computing.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 23, 2015

Exit tickets are a simple, quick and oftentimes insightful formative assessment method employed close to the end of a lesson. Educators will be able to review every single exit ticket on the same document. The educator can use a smart phone or tablet to capture student responses and the app collects and reports the data.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

” “ Assessing Social-Emotional Skills Can Be Fuzzy Work; SELweb Offers Concrete Data.” ” “ Panorama’s Student Progress Reports Show More Than Grades (Think Behavior and SEL).” “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” The Careful Balance of Tech and Relationships.”

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MindShift

JULY 29, 2015

That works fine when all kids have a smartphone or device, but Plickers is a solution for more low-tech classrooms. You can watch the growth of the student and collect that formative assessment evidence through their progression,” Luhtala said. PhotoMind : Luhtala loves this tool because she relies on pictures to document her life.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Anxiety over the influence of technology in schools, as in our lives, is an old story — but one made painfully acute by the glowing smartphone on which you may be reading this article. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

A 2015 Pew Research Center report revealed that the disconnected included 5 million households with school-aged children, who either couldn’t afford home broadband or lived in rural areas avoided by for-profit internet companies. Related: Many low-income families get on the Internet with smartphones or tablets. That matters.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

.” Puerto Rico Senator Abel Nazario-Quiñones (who among his roles in the Senate is the Chairman of the Commission on Education and University Reform of the Senate) “ was arrested and charged in a 39-count indictment alleging the making or use of false documents and wire fraud,” according to the Department of Justice press release.

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

Meanwhile on Campus… Excellent reporting from The Oregonian’s Bethany Barnes : “Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter.” Inside Higher Ed reports there’ll be 55 layoffs at Meharry Medical College and 24 layoffs at Western Illinois University. ” Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Via Politico : “The Trump administration has removed documents from an Education Department website aimed at transgender students , including those intended to help students fight for access to bathrooms of their choice.” “Assessing the dangers of AI applications in education” by Tony Bates. But at what cost?”

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