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How Digital Tools Improve Teaching and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Platforms for web-based discussion threads and creation of course or class wikis alter the types of student involvements in project-based and writing-specific assignments. Innovate assessment : As formats and contexts for assignments evolve, the methods of assessment has had to keep pace.

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4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

What no one argues is that it works better with Office documents. In fact, with Kiddom, you get everything you love about Google Classroom as well as the features only Kiddom brings to learning such as: the ability to plan, assess, and analyze via a free library of standards-aligned resources. a database, wiki, or photo gallery .

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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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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. I could incorporate Stanford University’s amazing library of historical critical thinking assessments at Beyond the Bubble.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

In addition, Gooru offers a wiki-assessment system with millions of questions teachers can use to assess student learning. Around the country, schools using this approach are documenting student success. Teachers and students using Gooru can now adapt these high-quality resources for their classrooms.

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Bring Focus to Blended Learning with 12 Starting Ideas… Plus a Free ISTE Webinar

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Develop a rubric that assess online discussion alignment with standards being used. Perhaps this could be an art gallery, blog, wiki, video, or their idea. Use a collaborative tool in Google Drive beyond a Document. Bringing Focus To Blended Learning with 12 Starting Ideas. Allow for comments and feedback.

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

Edsurge

Assessing one’s own writing and providing feedback to peers both help to move students forward as writers. 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.

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