The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Today’s guest, Enrique Cachafeiro talks about the hardware, software options, and future of virtual reality. We were trying out Google Expedition with a full classroom kit. Within the virtual environment, you get you learning, you get your assessment, you get your experience. Unity is a software required to make games.

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 12, 2015

From there, login via Facebook, Google or Twitter to get started. appoLearning includes an embed feature to include the collection on a website in addition to one-click sharing for Twitter and Facebook. Creating a Collection couldn’t be easier. Click or tap “Create a Collection” to get started.

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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. Doing a project that uses Google Docs or MS Word doesn’t mean students will apply that knowledge to the year-end PARCC and SB tests. For example, a picture taken in Google Earth is added to a slide deck for a geography report.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2019

This stage does not necessarily recognize the highest capabilities of digital technologies and merely substitutes old ways for a new mode with the lowest orchestration of software. They often say, “We let the teachers make all the choices as to what and how they will use various technologies including the software elements.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

As the number of candidates balloons while health risks make it hard for hiring managers to meet with them in person, a trend toward “pre-hiring assessments” — already under way before Covid-19 — is getting a huge new push. Now, with far more applicants in the pipeline, “I only see pre-hiring assessment gaining momentum,” Price said.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

EVERFI’s health literacy course uses Bloom’s taxonomy framework of hierarchical learning and assessment and is aligned with National Health Education Standards (NHES) , Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) and Jump$tart Coalition’s National Standards for K-12 Personal Finance Education.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 27, 2016

From new federal legislation to a changing assessment landscape, from the education interests of large companies like Google and Facebook to challenges in getting ed-tech products to work together, about 125 attendees at the Education Industry Symposium are talking about the threats and opportunities as they chart their paths forward.

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ProfHacker

JUNE 6, 2016

When was the last time you checked email, Facebook, or Twitter? In fact, most apps and online sites are intentionally designed to be enticing and distracting — after all, Facebook can’t sell advertisements for the hours you spend writing your manuscript — only for the hours you spend on its site.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

In fact, aside from the predictable few flickers of Facebook and Twitter, it seemed most of the students were actually working on something productive. Now, every student’s face was blankly fixated on the all-too-familiar glow of their computer screens. But the technology itself was not my concern.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

One of the most exciting and well-attended sessions covered the new IMS Caliper analytics standard, which can capture and share data on student activities in learning apps and software—thus giving teachers and developers a way to measure and glean insights on how students engage with digital tools. Why is that important?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Revelations about the privacy practices of Facebook only serve to underscore the stakes surrounding the capture and use of personal data. Absent checks on real and potential biases, errors and omissions, students’ future educational prospects are being shaped by software. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Facebook Centurions Book Group A gro up of readers who have set a goal to read 112 or more books during the year, 2012. Voicethread VoiceThread is a cloud application , so there is no software to install. Members will be posting month by month their titles, highlighting at least one pick to total twelve favorites for 2012.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

These are the tools that will be easier for educators to test and assess, since it should be clear how well these tools fit in with their existing processes (and whether they enhance them). As hard as accuracy is to assess, it’s harder still to evaluate whether the data truly represents the activity the AI will automate (e.g.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

LaShundra Wigfall Instagram: @Teacher_Chronicles Facebook What are some of the challenges of teaching English online? But that's why I stay active on DaDaABC’s Facebook group. Google Chrome browser or DaDaClass software. I’m sure any educator could add to that list. Initially, it was getting up so early in the morning.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In addition, discussion boards and assessment tools are available for teachers and students in most systems. The teacher can assess learning online. Google Classroom , Schoology and Edmodo fall into this category. The teacher assigns content and activities, the students complete it, and the teacher assesses.

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Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 1, 2014

Students see them on Facebook and on advertiser’s pages. The second way infographics can be incorporated into teaching and learning is by having students create an infographic as a formative or summative assessment. Some of these include: • Google Drawings ( https://support.google.com/drive/answer/177123?hl=en

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. Our system was user friendly, allowing educators to see student grades, benchmark assessments and progress against standards on student dashboards.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In addition, discussion boards and assessment tools are available for teachers and students in most systems. The teacher can assess learning online. Google Classroom , Schoology and Edmodo fall into this category. The teacher assigns content and activities, the students complete it, and the teacher assesses.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

You can use the CTR Flex rubric to evaluate apps and other software with your local colleagues or use a variety of possible criteria to customize your own instrument. For updates, follow Teachers With Apps on Twitter , Pinterest and Facebook. Bloomin’ apps: suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and Web 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Even schools that manage to give all children access to devices and the internet cannot escape the fact that much of the educational software they’re using is not specific to the needs of ELL students, Sugarman said. If you were to assess our entire school, we have a lot of students reading at the second grade level in the eighth grade.”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

So what we’ve done is create the software layer on top of coding bootcamps that doesn’t just match you to the program, but also gives you that support system to know what the technical bar is at these programs, what the financial resources are, where housing is, what scholarships opportunities are. It’s very psychological.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 5, 2022

For example, those with IEPs or 504s that include seating accommodations; however for most students I just assign their seats randomly (often just clicking the “randomize” button on my school’s rostering software, and then manually moving individual students as needed per specific learning plans).

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 29, 2022

Why Use Online Quiz Testing Software To Create Online Quizzes For Students? No, it’s not difficult if you use the right quiz builder software. Interactive quizzes are helpful to educators to assess students’ knowledge of a subject. Why Use Online Quiz Testing Software To Create Online Quizzes For Students?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Game designers are not just designing a piece of software. There are publishers like Pearson, tech companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google. In the early 2000’s] there were certain voices left out, such as assessment people like psychometricians. So I worked heavily with MacArthur [Foundation] on assessments.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

You can connect with the Geo-Educator Community through a variety of online platforms including Twitter , Facebook and the secure educator site, Edmodo. Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. CEET Meet: Disrupting Assessment with Digital Badges. Classroom 2.0

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 7, 2015

PLTW Director of Assessment Claudia Guerere (@ClaudiaGuerere) recommends this activity, which she says engages kids’ natural curiosity and discovery. Lightbot – Lightbot is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts. Or how many varieties of leaves exist on the trees in the yard. Do try it at home!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? Last year, the National Federation of the Blind filed a complaint against Penn State, charging that the school''s adoption of Google Apps for Education was discriminatory. Among his latest findings: "Time spent on Facebook was negatively related to overall college GPA.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 3, 2014

Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. She''s hoping that some of you have favorite web tools and/or software that you could recommend for her brave undertaking. Education Revolution Google+ Community Too Cool For School - Innovative Teachers Abound!

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2019

And the number of education-specific apps, services, and software I actually used consistently? Any “spare” time I had (the time my friends used to advance their careers, take Yoga, connect on Facebook) I spent lesson planning, rereading literature and grading papers. Those I could easily count on one hand.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 7, 2020

Take inspiration from Google, Facebook, Microsoft Word, and others to learn the common themes of web interfaces and copy them. Some work well as assessment software while others handle video better. Your users will thank you. Design curriculum and instruction with the strengths of your specific LMS in mind.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

And I think sometimes in my research world that I'm in now, we tend to stay in the clouds where we make everything very lengthy and wordy and difficult to assess. And so then he started using technology tools that made sense for that learning goal, connecting with another classroom through Skype and co-writing through like Google Docs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

We are focusing primarily on communication—both delivering it and managing it—rather than learning or assessment techniques. If you don’t have enough of it, teaching and assessment won’t even be possible, let alone optimized. Facebook Live. Google Hangouts/Meet. Google Hangouts/Meet. Google Classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

They support single sign-on with Google and Clever. You can only do that if you know how to use technology, especially really fabulous software, which teachers who use technology know how to find. Learn more about formative assessment. Google Cardboard costs like, what — $12 – and every kid has a smartphone.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

He then opens up an assignment on a Google Doc and a grading rubric, reviewing the comments and feedback his teacher has left on his work. Yet getting students to make choices and direct their own learning is no easy task, even with the assistance of an online platform that has more than 50 software engineers maintaining it.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

If you do a Google image search for “classroom,” you’ll mostly see one familiar scene: rows or groups of desks , with a spot at the front of the room for the teacher. More than nine out of 10 districts polled said they were directing devices, software and professional development resources toward personalized learning.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

assessment banks, assignments, online homework tools).) The Linux operating system is one of the most incredible success stories of the open source software movement. There is a popular myth that most of the people writing open source software do this work in their spare time for altruistic reasons. But is 300 a lot or a little?

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