The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 27, 2020

I hold a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education, earned at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. My Master’s Degree was earned at the University of South Dakota in the area of Educational Administration. When we offer current and impactful learning to teachers, our students, families, and communities’ benefit.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

September 23, 2021— To further support Spanish-speaking students in dual-language or transitional-bilingual programs, Curriculum Associates recently added new lessons and assessments to its award-winning i-Ready program. Based on students’ results from this assessment, teachers are provided with high-quality instructional resources.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2015

Homegrown online assessments prove invaluable to one district. Assessments are critical to our efforts to improve instruction in K-12 education. At Hopewell Valley Regional School District (HVRSD), we began the transition to online assessment more than three years ago. It makes student thinking visible.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Engaging students as individuals meaningfully and equitably, supporting students’ well-being as their social and family lives are disrupted, and monitoring learning while teaching online full-time or simultaneously teaching students in person and online remain educators’ top priorities. Now it drives instruction.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has urged educators worldwide to embrace technology as many of their classes shifted to a fully remote or hybrid environment. Yet, pedagogy remains at the core of any teaching activity, being the fuel for success in education. Read more: 4 more ways to stimulate online learner engagement.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 14, 2021

In particular, students and educators saw their usual routine completely turned upside down. They were unprepared for the vast impact the virus would have on how students learn and education settings operate. Adopting a hybrid system of learning is perhaps the most logical thing to do in many educational settings.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Addressing these three key areas–video collaboration, the 6GHz migration, and network automation–will prepare networks to meet the needs of today’s and future students. Here’s why they are a major trend for educational institutions. Automated historical analytics for long-term performance trends.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 20, 2020

Now educators can make their instruction more effective and provide practice linked directly to progress monitoring and formative assessment results using free digital tools from Microsoft. An easy-to-use navigation system lets educators choose different types of questions, such as multiple choice or text.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The easy tool educators are using every day From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. TIP: The Google for Education Blog has the breaking announcements and information on Google Classroom. All blog posts tagged GAFE on the Google for Education Blog. Assessment. Blog Posts.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Learning Management Systems were probably created for institutions of Higher Education. Here are five benefits that an LMS brings to students of higher education. Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based education. Online collaboration tools. 5 LMS benefits for HE students. Various and engaging learning content.

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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2016

Quality, cost remain top concerns when it comes to assessments. Assessments are a hot topic in K-12 education — particularly in states that now require school districts to assess students in all subjects, not just those tested by the state. Where will districts get the new assessment content? Can technology help?

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

One of those jobs is education technology (edtech) coordinator, a title that might not be the same in all schools and countries, but comes with similar tasks and responsibilities. However, it’s the only way to progress and meet students’ needs, which change from generation to generation. Schools usually resist change.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 13, 2018

Those were among the 10 key findings highlighted in the Consortium for School Networking’s fourth K–12 IT Leadership Survey Report , which was released on Monday in conjunction with the opening of CoSN’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The survey also highlighted the different paths men and women take to IT leadership.

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techlearning

AUGUST 2, 2018

This interactive assessment will provide educators with actionable data on how well their students grasp critical digital literacy concepts as outlined in the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students. Educators who register by August 15can access the quiz until September 30, 2018.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2015

Partnership aims to help educators access more than 80,000 item bank resources for assessment. At the center of this platform is Certica’s Formative Assessment Item Bank (FAIB), which features over 80,000 items, including more than 50,000 Common Core-aligned Math and English Language Arts selections.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 1, 2020

Our current educational system is now more dynamic and complex due to Covid-19. The three car train concept places educators into different train carriages based on their willingness to adopt an innovative mindset as it pertains to technology. Remote Learning AP Culture of Assessment.

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Kathy Schrock

APRIL 15, 2023

In today's digital age, classroom teachers can take advantage of a wide range of online tools to enhance the teaching and learning experience. In this article, we'll explore some of the most effective online tools for classroom teachers, along with best practices for using them in the classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

Thoughts about online proctoring have been taking up more of my time and energy than I’d like to admit. Rather than spending most of my time time helping people become better online teachers, I have been figuring out how to meet two competing objectives: increase online course offerings and avoid adopting an online proctoring system.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

There were no iPads, no online assessments and no Zoom. They appreciated this flexibility, but it also meant that preservice teachers like Tonja would need to apply everything they learned about teaching to two very different modalities: in-person and online. For remote learners, we used an online assessment.)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2016

Not quite sure how you're going to run formative assessment in your classroom, or lead professional development workshops? To help you out this new school year, EdSurge has been compiling 52 stories from educators in each of the 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia over the course of the past year. Are you ready for it?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

One of the great challenges for any educator is how do you teach and test students on real world problems, not just on theoretical textbook examples? Real world problems are exciting to solve but devilishly hard to assess, especially when there are many students involved. Which online education tools are you using at NAIT?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Partnership gives educators access to assessment library. Edulastic, a next-generation online assessment platform for K-12 teachers and administrators, has formed a new partnership with Key Data Systems to make the Inspect item bank available to Edulastic District Enterprise users.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Its product is called “Class for Zoom,” and what it’s building is pretty much that—a suite of tools that let instructors take attendance, distribute and grade assignments, and deliver online assessments through Zoom. He was particularly troubled by the fact that many of their classes were reduced to meeting just one hour per week. “I

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 9, 2019

The key strategy to get to this level of understanding involves a tried-and-true instructional practice: formative assessments and feedback. So what are some main characteristics of these assessment practices? Students learn to set goals, self-assess, monitor their progress over time. Educator Strategies: .

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As schools and districts strive to meet their existing technology needs and prepare for the future, access to federal and state funding, along with other grants, is making a major difference in whether students engage in 21st century learning or are left behind. Department of Education does not provide funding for this purpose.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Colleges have long relied on pen-and-paper assessments purporting to measure students’ personalities, interests and values, Donnelly says. The system offers students a short online assessment of their interests , then matches them with Butte degree programs that may be a good fit for them.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Instead of students listening to a standard lecture, class time can now focus on specific student questions and wonderings, and the plan for any given day can adjust immediately based on student errors or misconceptions (as shown through real-time online assessment data). educational technology Opinion'

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edWeb.net

MARCH 1, 2020

Whether schools are 1:1 or still relying on computer carts, the move to online assessments creates new needs from devices to professional development to data privacy policies. Have an instructional framework centered around curriculum design before talking about assessment. Feedback is more than just one assessment.

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techlearning

JUNE 14, 2018

The ISTE Standards support educators to re-engineer their classrooms for digital age learning. The ISTE Standards support educators to re-engineer their classrooms for digital age learning.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Digital learning not only plays a crucial role in preparing today’s students for the jobs of tomorrow, it also has an important role in providing equity and access to education, especially in smaller and remote school districts. Croix River Education District. Broadband’s Big Picture. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenter.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Wikipedia Differentiation, the ability for teachers to meet the needs of a variety of learners, is a key component for successful teaching. While there are lots of ways this can be done and lots of tools that educators can use to accomplish this, there are many sites that can help facilitate the process.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Online Assessment Platforms: Platforms like Kahoot! Additionally, collaboration builds a sense of community among educators. Calendar Integration: Sync your digital calendar with school events, meetings, and personal commitments. The post 10 Tips to Increase Teacher Productivity appeared first on Educators Technology.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 12, 2016

PowerSchool continued its acquisition streak with the purchase of Haiku Learning; in addition, Jefferson Education announced a partnership with Fishtree, and digital writing solution provider Citelighter gained additional funding. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. and Canada. Citelighter Raises $2.1

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edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

Even in today’s tech-heavy environment, before moving to online assessments, leadership needs to ask: Should we? During their presentation, “Online Assessment: An Evolving Landscape and New Opportunities,” they discussed the lessons they learned when they made the transition and what they would change if they could.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

But to be a Top Workplace, organizations must meet our strict standards for organizational health. Leading the education technology industry in developing solutions to help today’s students thrive in a digital world, Learning.com collaborates with educators to make it simple to integrate digital literacy into everyday instruction.

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Linways Technologies

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

What is an Assessment. Assessment is a series of measurements that use various methods and techniques, to collect data on student learning in order to refine teaching programs and improve student learning capabilities. Assessments are always cyclical and are revised to meet requirements.

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

Every year the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference's expo floor is packed with edtech products vying for teachers' attention. Hunting for a new spin on middle school science education? Explore Tyto Online. A uniquely ambitious project, Tyto Online is a multiplayer online game focused on science.

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