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5 ways to teach like a pirate

eSchool News

Technology not only engages students but also offers opportunities for alternative assessments that encourage creativity and individuality. By incorporating alternative assessment formats, students can demonstrate their understanding in unique ways. Students could try to guess who they will be meeting with or where they are from.

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14 Effective Self-Directed Learning Strategies

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Now, we’re not just talking about Googling an answer to a quick question. It’s essential for self-directed learners to regularly assess their understanding and skills, think about their thinking (meta, right?), Daniel Russell’s research on how to search like a Google scientist is eye-opening in this context.

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Top Google Education News, Tips, and Resources from #ISTE19

techlearning

This year’s conference highlighted so many ways to use Google apps and tools to engage learners and make grading, assessment, feedback, pbl, gamification, student engagement, collaboration, student choice, and student voice easy to do!

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What is pedagogy? Understanding the foundations of effective teaching and learning

Hapara

It includes teaching strategies, learning activities and assessments. They can reflect through observation, assessment data or feedback from learners. Providing clear and consistent feedback Educators should give learners formative assessments throughout a lesson or project, leading up to a summative assessment.

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Texthelp Launches WriQ to Automate and Standardize Writing Assessment

eSchool News

Texthelp ®, a leading education technology company focused on helping learners of all ages and abilities improve their reading, writing, and math skills, today announced the launch of WriQ ®, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement tool. “WriQ, has been designed with those needs in mind. .

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. Augmentation: Technology not only replaces a traditional tool but adds functionality, e.g. using Google Earth to explore the setting of a story rather than a map. e.g. using virtual meeting tools (like Google Hangouts) to include housebound students in a class.

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KyEdRPG Spotlight: Chad Collins and "The Academy"

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Each of these classes has a corresponding Google Site as first designed by Chad, which consists of unique, personalized paths of learning. In actuality, these are "Mastery Checks" of learning that are assessed by the teacher, and if the student does not meet the requirements, are asked to revise and resubmit.