Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As someone deeply immersed in the field, I’ve always been on the lookout for strategies and tools that can help us educators manage our time more effectively. Today, I want to share with you a curated list of some of the best time management tools, handpicked with teachers in mind. What Is Pomodoro Technique and How Does it Work?

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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 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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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

The “secret sauce” in all of this was the strategic use of digital tools to proactively share the details of our efforts and resulting impact. During my tenure as a principal, I was always in search of tools and processes to help measure the impact of the changes we were implementing. Unfortunately, nothing existed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

Three new reports on student achievement during the pandemic all point to larger declines in math than in reading and widening gaps between the haves and have-nots. That’s because low-income students were less likely to attend in-person school, where diagnostic assessments were given, or take an online assessment at home.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 19, 2016

Socrative is an App (or you can use a Web browser) in which quizzes, tests and assessments can be easily created by educators and subsequently completed by students. How Do I Create My First Assessment? Click on the small spanner symbol on the bar at the top of the screen to get to the tools page. 2) Create an account.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 19, 2016

Socrative is an App (or you can use a Web browser) in which quizzes, tests and assessments can be easily created by educators and subsequently completed by students. How Do I Create My First Assessment? Click on the small spanner symbol on the bar at the top of the screen to get to the tools page. 2) Create an account.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 1, 2019

Nothing can replace this formal assessment, but it’s helpful to teach students to track their words per minute between these reading fluency assessments. In a coaching session with a second-grade teacher, I suggested we try using Voice Typing in Google Documents to help students track how many words they read in a minute.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 7, 2022

Learn what different types of assignments these e-learning tools support and how they can ease your work and help you save time. . Generate result reports to track student progress; . Quizzes are the quickest way to assess student knowledge. Students can use the HTML editor to write an essay or upload a document.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Forms are popular in schools for assessments, data collection, and a slew of other reasons. The completed document can be pushed out via link or embedded into blogs and websites. Over the past months, they have come up with many useful tools that simplify remote teaching. PDFs are a favorite document among teachers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

Data-driven decisions are increasingly recognized as a critical component of K-12 education, enhancing personalized learning, improving assessment and feedback, optimizing resource allocation and fostering early intervention. Despite the benefits, implementing data-driven decision-making in education presents challenges.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Texthelp ®, a leading education technology company focused on helping learners of all ages and abilities improve their reading, writing, and math skills, today announced the launch of WriQ ®, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement tool. The report analyzed U.S. It highlights a number of key challenges for U.S.

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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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As you might know there are some amazing formative assessment tools on the web. Free Digital Formative Assessment Tools… Important Thoughts Before Implementing - Michael Gorman ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com ) . Not only can the formative assessment process be engaging, it can also be owned by students.

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Neo LMS

JULY 21, 2020

The use of edtech tools such as learning management systems (LMS) can help teachers to improve the design and delivery of instruction, as well as to assess student progress. No lost documents anymore! Improved student assessment. However, teachers often lack the time and tools to make such insights.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

We decided to write a book to provide every teacher with the strategies and tools to confidently pull all parts of the writing process into the classroom. This tool is designed to help students hone their observation skills and discover tips and tricks to implement in their writing practice immediately! Graham, S., & Hebert, M.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

That’s why the development of AI-powered tools that can accommodate all learners must be a priority for policymakers, districts and the education technology industry. AI-driven tools can enable more students to interact in ways that are natural and accessible for them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

When I first addressed this issue fifteen years ago, it was all about replacing traditional classroom tools with one on a computer. For example, book reports were typed on the computer instead of handwritten, or math facts were practiced with a math game instead of flash cards. Where is the tool? What happened? How do you do **?

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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. The student uses the Grammarly report to identify mechanical errors and edit their work. Instead of asking themselves, “How can I?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

This doesn’t include Google Chrome independent extensions like Quillbot , described in its overview as a “Grammar Checker, Paraphrasing Tool & Summarizer.” Several staff members at my school have likened it to the introduction of the internet as a research tool for high school students in the 90s. The potential of AI is staggering.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

These reports, some observers believe, mark a thoughtful step toward ensuring digital equity. This is one of the first documents that really gives schools a roadmap for looking at their technology systems as a whole, says Lindsay Jones, the chief executive officer of CAST, a nonprofit that advocates for equitable learning conditions.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Aperture Education, the leading provider of research-based social and emotional learning assessments for K-12 schools, has added two new solutions to its product suite. DESSA Middle School Student Self-Report Adolescents’ engagement is critical to learning success. Charlotte N.C.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

This report is one of the first to gather and analyze nationally representative data from more than five million Grades K–2 students, thanks to their i-Ready® Diagnostic for Reading and for Mathematics. points, respectively, from 2019 to 2023. Our students have faced tremendous hardship, and the road ahead will not be easy.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 28, 2022

Gamification and micro-learning content further upped the game, emerging as powerful teacher tools, thus, making learning journeys all the more inclusive, immersive, and engaging. In sync with this, teaching methods too have undergone a significant change enabled by teacher tools that help to deliver a powerful learning experience.

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Hapara

JUNE 24, 2022

As teachers think about implementing a new curriculum, they take a tool kit developed over time and through experience. . One of the tools educators can draw on from within their tool kit is an understanding of the curriculum. Educators assess and report on outcomes. Unpacking curriculum.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There are thousands of online tools to streamline education delivery. A quick scan of the EdTech Top 40 – Fall 22 Report reveals that teachers in the United States used almost 148 digital tools, while students used nearly 143 digital tools in the school year 2021–22.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 13, 2019

According to a 2018 research report , AI-based technologies are primed to grow within the edtech market by just under 47%. The program is able to assess not only wrong and right answers, but steps taken and hints used and then map that over previous tasks and assessments completed.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

When teachers engage students at their teacher-led station, they can collect invaluable formative assessment data that can help inform future lessons. #1 This approach shifts your energy into supporting the process instead of waiting to assess a finished product. 5 Quick Assessment & Individualized Support. 1 Hook the Group.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Plagiarism is becoming ubiquitous in academia as an increase in AI-powered writing tools become more advanced and available to students. What are the documented and potentially long-lasting impacts of students plagiarizing their work? According to a recent report from the U.S. percent to 49.6

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Presence is expanding the tools available to clinicians in schools, agencies, and independent practices. Presence is offering a free version of the platform for clinicians interested in exploring how they can incorporate technology into their therapy planning, documentation, and delivery.

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PlagiarismCheck

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A good plagiarism checker is a superhero among education-related tools. Let’s see which tool is the best candidate to save your city – or, at least, your workflow, which is even better! Authorship Verification tool. Limitations: The free offer for educators allows checking no more than 20 documents monthly.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

The discussion was based on the research of primary and secondary documents and was quite creative. I assigned students to develop a running conversation between historical personalities such as Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton for a quick formative assessment for one lesson.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

After the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, schools suddenly found themselves required to label and serve children with a variety of special needs — including learning disabilities and what was then called mental retardation — without enough tools beyond testing to guide them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Inside the middle school math crisis I sat through other new simulations at the summit as well, including Dreamscape Learn, something I’d heard and read about from a colleague who took a trip through its virtual Alien Zoo ) and YouTube Player for Education , which is creating virtual lessons, content and assessments.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

The best-flipped classroom tools can transform and remodel classroom teaching, allowing in-depth learning and personalized attention that can help learners improve their grades. The right learning platform apps and tools can produce engaging content ranging from science videos to English lessons. Screencast Software Tools For Teachers.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 19, 2020

I also use online web tools and applications to increase interactivity and engagement. All tools I describe below are free and work on any device, any browser. In this case, I inform the Breakout Groups to decide on a spokesperson or two to report to the whole group. Below are some the activities I have used during my.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

By running regular reports. . LMSs boast a variety of tools that automatically gather and process information. Whether you want to create grade charts or reports about class status or class completion, your learning platform can help you out. . Discover five of the most common and useful LMS reports your school LMS must have.

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