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How Digital Tools Improve Teaching and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Increase collaboration : Just as social media has given rise to new definitions of community, digital tools are transforming community and the give-and-take between students and teachers. Innovate assessment : As formats and contexts for assignments evolve, the methods of assessment has had to keep pace.

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What Research Says About Driving Growth for Writers With Practice, Feedback and Revision

Edsurge

When appropriate, students can learn to share their work through social media or sites like Youth Voices , extending their sense of audience, purpose, and genre that comes from a foundation of good writing instruction. Assessing one’s own writing and providing feedback to peers both help to move students forward as writers.

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7 ways to support learner-teacher interaction

Learning with 'e's

Here''s a few ideas for you to consider: 1) Lecturers can make sure they maintain dialogue with their students through participation in social media sites. 2) One popular social media site - Twitter - is a different proposition entirely. Does technology provide any realistic, sustainable solutions? But be careful.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

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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On capturing evidence in a few new containers

NeverEndingSearch

They’re great for pre- and post assessments, but you can. Socrative This free tool works across devices using quizzes, quick questions, a competitive game, or a pre-designed exit ticket to assess learning and understanding. Notes may include links (to projects) and media. It also generates spreadsheet-based reports.

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9 Ways to Use Google Wave

The Electric Educator

Wave replaces the need for multiple services such as a Wiki to post work, Google Docs to collaborate on documents, email to communicate asynchronously, and instant messaging services to communicate synchronously. My students continually struggle with data aggregation, analysis, and assessment.

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Digital Literacy–What is it?

Ask a Tech Teacher

a backchannel device–to assess student learning while it’s happening (with tools such as Socrative, Today’s Meet, or Google Apps). Social media. Social media has the reputation as a gossip column–where people meet to chat. That’s social media. Cloud computing.