Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

Topics attendees may learn by doing include (this depends upon the class taken): Blogging—to reflect, collaborate with classmates, share perspectives during class, complete assessments in some cases. Digital portfolios—via wikis. The classroom is a wiki. Also, teachers will embed web tools (i.e., How is it taught?

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Neo LMS

MAY 24, 2022

Teachers can also assess an entire student group through team assignments. The group’s members will be able to use chats, forums, wiki, and resource areas to work on their projects. For example, for a school or district group, with a hobby or club purpose, you could simply add them from the Groups tab: . Team assignment groups

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2015

Don’t get me wrong, I still assess learning. I just do it in a way in which students often don’t realize that they are being assessed. For ongoing, formative assessment, I ask my students to design, discuss, build, create, present, reflect, and share. Next: How to change assessment practices.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2015

This April piece , on the difference between testing vs. assessing , was published as part of Innovation In Action, a monthly column from the International Society of Technology in Education focused on exemplary practices in education. Don’t get me wrong, I still assess learning. Next: How to change assessment practices.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 13, 2016

Real life learning or learning outside of school usually doesn’t not entail studying textbook materials and then taking tests to assess learning. For example, I started playing Pickleball a few months ago. For my Pickleball example, it simply meant joining the group who play at the local community college.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

The social media environment provides a good area to assess how students perform. Let's take for example learning platforms. LMSs now feature blogs, wikis, voice threads and discussion forums to facilitate social learning. They are more engaged and interactive when they are socialized.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Here are six examples of higher-order thinking skills my students developed while creating and playing games: 1. Digital Literacy While players in a school environment can turn to each other for assistance and support, they may also visit the numerous Minecraft-dedicated wikis, blogs or YouTube channels for inspiration.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here''s Twelve Examples tags : leadership , favorite Google Tools for Teachers (NCTE 2009) tags : Google , favorite Wiki Skills on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 9, 2018

For example, if you’re discussing digital privacy, create avatars using Minecraft or Legos. For example, our 3rd graders end the year with a (heavy) discussion on worldwide governments. This helps them become familiar with collaborating and sharing online while assessing their knowledge on relevant class topics.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2016

For example, if the student places a beaver in the desert in a downpour, the compatibility thermometer will be low. The game also includes an optional quiz to assess student knowledge. It can be played on both computers and Chromebooks, as well as embedded into the class website, blog, or wiki (see below): Habitats.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Should we persist in assessing students in modes of communication they may never use in the real world? It was therefore both opportune and appropriate that I lock assessment into the mode of learning and the subject matter. How for example, have you agreed an equivalency for wordcount in a video? It was about time.

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myViewBoard

JUNE 25, 2021

For example, inside of the STEAM collection there are topics ranging from Area and Perimeter to FinTech in the 21st Century. In this way, the teacher can both engage students with interesting video content from Clips, and also assess the student’s learning through quizzes located inside the video itself. Collections .

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Military students for example may be serving overseas, or in submarines. The MentorBlog project for example, employed the use of two-person blogs to connect students with their professional mentors, who may never have had the opportunity to meet face to face (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2008).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

Some helpful examples can be found here and here. I prefer assessments that promote critical thinking and written reflection over build quality. The ultimate resource is the Official Minecraft Wiki. I really didn’t know anything about the game, so I did a keyword search for “Minecraft” and discovered over 140 million videos!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2015

You can push videos to students differentiated for their unique needs, share quick assessments to determine understanding, and ask students to provide evidence of their understanding. Any time I started to waiver, they had video help. How to use it in the classroom: I especially like it for the flipped classroom.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example. Let’s take maps, for example. They could make a local history wiki or, even better, make contributions to our global information commons by directly creating and editing Wikipedia pages.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. For example, a picture taken in Google Earth is added to a slide deck for a geography report. Students are expected to collaborate and share online as young as kindergarten when they read digital books or draw pictures using iPad apps.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2015

For example, if you’re discussing digital privacy, create avatars using Minecraft or Legos. For example, our 3rd graders end the year with a (heavy) discussion on worldwide governments. This helps them become familiar with collaborating and sharing online while assessing their knowledge on relevant class topics.

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Khan Academy Digital Citizenship eBook Groups 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Click the link for an example of Abraham Lincoln to align with study of the American Civil War. You may offer an example or rubric if those are available. Their code can be copied into most blogs, wikis, and websites or used from the Wolfram-Alpha site. Copy the code and embed it into your website, blog, or wiki.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Assessing one’s own writing and providing feedback to peers both help to move students forward as writers. Instead, in our reviews—and in teaching our students how to offer reviews to one another—we need to help them connect specific examples from the author’s piece to the criteria by which the writing is being evaluated.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 7, 2016

For example, if you’re discussing digital privacy, create avatars using Minecraft or Legos. Have a class discussion using a Discussion Board, blog post, wiki, the class Twitter stream, a collaborative board like Padlet or Linoit –or have students use each method, at different times for the balance of the school year.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

Summit, for example, will contribute more than 16,000 comprehensive Common Core-aligned resources for students in sixth through 12th grades in October, and High Tech High has already contributed over 4,000 resources. In addition, Gooru offers a wiki-assessment system with millions of questions teachers can use to assess student learning.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Example: An early group created a spreadsheet with contact information for all of their classmates. Now the professors create a class wiki or site so all of the students can easily stay connected and in touch. Presentation link: [link]. cloud computing lamar masters degree tcea tcea 2011'

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

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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wwwatanabe

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

For example, Dr. Nick Sauers mainly posts from an administrative point of view, while Janet Moeller-Abercrombie posts from a teacher''s point of view. Best educational wiki: Flat Classroom I love that this wiki is organized for students and teachers to collaborate on the Flat Classroom Project together.

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wwwatanabe

JULY 20, 2015

It can be used as an authentic assessment. 6 Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. After being inspired by the webinar, I created the following page summarizing some of my key take-aways: Click here to download PDF Example Below is an example of digital storytelling by Siobahn Quigg.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Social tagging for example, is becomes increasingly stronger as people populate it with content and links. It represents a top-down, hierarchical delivery of content (and content really is king in this mode), which ideally demands specific (observable) behaviours from the learner that can be measured and assessed objectively.

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MSEDTechie

AUGUST 11, 2012

Embed the voki on class blogs, wikis, websites, and more. Perfect for self-assessment purposes for foreign language classrooms. Forum WIKI What is wiki? ? A wiki is a website program that allows users to edit and create any number of interlocking webpages. What is good about a wiki? Wiki Examples'

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

We talked for instance about how technology would streamline assessment, and how the curriculum might be impacted by new technologies. Blogs and wikis and other social media made an appearance, even though at the time they were still fairly nascent in compulsory education. Much more learning will be done outside of the classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Many members use them as physical examples they can show faculty when they’re introducing them to open textbooks.” For example, this year, giants Cengage and McGraw-Hill announced plans to merge and offer a subscription-based service that combines their digital libraries. But once faced with intense competition from Open Stax, et al.,

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wwwatanabe

JANUARY 28, 2011

Resources : Here are examples of effective blogging rules and guidelines. Graphic organizers or a wiki might be wise choices. Assessment : A rubric with exactly what you are looking for should be created. Your task is to create those guidelines. 3) Collaborate to write our own blogging rules and guidelines.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Click the link for an example of Abraham Lincoln to align with study of the American Civil War. You may offer an example or rubric if those are available. Their code can be copied into most blogs, wikis, and websites or used from the Wolfram-Alpha site. Copy the code and embed it into your website, blog, or wiki.

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Wiki Learning Common Core Digital Citizenship 392

Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Educators are incorporating video game cut scenes into instruction, using game specific wikis to build content knowledge, and finding ways to embed students into World War II through first person shooter console games. Some great examples for social studies teachers include: Settlers of Catan – link to game.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 30, 2017

They determined that success wasn't based on "who" was on a team but on the culture created by the team -- for example, a group that takes turns talking vs. one in which members speak over one another. Gather assessment info about students' social skills, such as cooperation, and report to parents. Wikispaces.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 30, 2017

They determined that success wasn't based on "who" was on a team but on the culture created by the team -- for example, a group that takes turns talking vs. one in which members speak over one another. Gather assessment info about students' social skills, such as cooperation, and report to parents. Wikispaces.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 7, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. The only real limitation is imagination. Unported License.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Holiday examples include this Thanksgiving pumpkin and these holiday bells. Click the link for an example of Abraham Lincoln to align with study of the American Civil War. You may offer an example or rubric if those are available. Copy the code and embed it into your website, blog, or wiki. Click to view slideshow.

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