Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We hardly think twice about spell-check and other auto-correct features in writing software—in fact, their absence would make some feel rather lost and empty. Listen to this week’s podcast on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen, or use the player below. It’s made for humans.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

In addition, Liz has published numerous articles and book chapters on new technologies and education in prominent publications such as Education Leadership, School Administrator Magazine, Scholastic, Edutopia, ISTE’s Edtekhub, and Learning and Leading with Technology. Her blog is at [link]. Transcript for this episode.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Formative assessment is the answer. Formative assessment can supercharge your classroom learning. Technology can make formative assessment easier for you. Formative assessment gives us the ability to quiz every single student in the class. Let’s dive deeper into formative assessment in today’s show!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. The company has raised some $77.5 If so, what are they?

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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. Self-Publishing an e-Magazine. Musarat Anjum has volunteered to produce to an e-magazine for her school. She''s hoping that some of you have favorite web tools and/or software that you could recommend for her brave undertaking.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

There are three great options for audio writing in your classroom: Audacity –software download; free. Here are suggestions: LucidPress –provides professional-looking templates for brochures, magazines, fliers, and more. Slides–online free slideshow tool from Google. Google Sheets–from Google.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

There are three great options for audio writing in your classroom: Audacity –software download; free. Here are suggestions: LucidPress –provides professional-looking templates for brochures, magazines, fliers, and more. Slides–online free slideshow tool from Google. Google Sheets–from Google.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. The quotation is from 2012.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 17, 2016

tools Write with Me or Google Forms. These can be collected using Google Forms or Write with Me. Create an online, not google-able, question that asks for a solution. How about comparing a newspaper, novel, or a magazine. Make word clouds of a newspaper or magazine article for a current event.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. He attributes this theory to the role Asia now plays in the global economy with automation being software driven, and abundance of material in the market place. You will even find a STEAM-based magazine.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Offerings from industry leaders such Google are feature-rich and unlikely to suddenly close their doors and leave your data in limbo. Keys obfuscated and stored in Software as a Service (SaaS) applications aren’t secure, Clyde says, and “losing the key is just as dangerous.” Third-party risk assessment is critical , Clyde says.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

Take, for example, the founding editor of the technology trade magazine Wired , Kevin Kelly. Buying hardware and buying software does not make you or your students or your institutions forward-thinking. The companies selling us the hardware and software to store this data are fragile. Digital data is fragile.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Unfortunately, it was (and continues to be) an expensive piece of software not traditionally included in Microsoft’s Office Suite (though that changed with Office 365). Here’s how it works: Sign in with your Google account or create a separate Canva account (must be 13 or over unless directly supervised by an adult).

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TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2019

They are all coming to your blog or website to learn something and the best way to keep them coming back is to ask them questions, possibly through a Google Form Survey, to get a better sense of topics that you may wish to turn into podcast or blog topics. February: Google for Education. Week 1: Google Docs Tips. Rendezvous.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

While Raspberry Pi computers remain an important tool in this mission, the Foundation is device- and platform-agnostic, supporting learning across a wide range of hardware and software. Students in a Foundation-supported edtech hub in rural Kenya How does your organization assess the success of its initiatives?

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Google to Symantec: We don't trust you anymore | InfoWorld → Admins need to consider whether they still want to use Symantec (the cybersecurity firm!) "In these cases, boards need to provide access to a school device. after its repeated mistakes with issuing TLS certificates. “The

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Google to Symantec: We don't trust you anymore | InfoWorld → Admins need to consider whether they still want to use Symantec (the cybersecurity firm!) "In these cases, boards need to provide access to a school device. after its repeated mistakes with issuing TLS certificates. “The

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” (So instead of “testing” we’ll have ubiquitous, non-stop surveillance / assessment via “personalized learning.” Via Techcrunch : “ Google partners with MotherCoders to bring tech training to moms in New York City.” The school management software maker has raised $191,500 total.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As librarians, we can do this by offering a range of genres and formats for students to choose from: novels, comics, magazines, audiobooks, print, or digital. Teachers can create multimedia assessments and activities for their students, who record and embed their responses. Holzweiss asked.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The non-speakers: James Damore, the fired Google engineer, and Lucian Wintrich, a journalist with Gateway Pundit. Via IDG’s CIO magazine : “ How artificial intelligence is transforming learning.” The literacy software company has raised $14.8 ” Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech. million total.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

World Magazine on how Liberty University handles its student newspaper: “Papered over.” Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But, as New York Magazine quipped , “Laurene Powell Jobs is undaunted by these facts.” In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. Everything’s a business opportunity.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

” That’s the Collegiate Learning Assessment exam (a.k.a. ” asks The New York Times Magazine. Via The New York Times : “How Google Took Over the Classroom.” ” Edsurge interviews Stanford’s Candace Thille on “Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via The New York Magazine : “The Class of 1946–2018 Twenty-seven school-shooting survivors bear their scars, and bear witness.” ” Also via The New York Times : “ Google Faces Internal Backlash Over Handling of Sexual Harassment.” ” Via The New York Times : “At Butler High School in N.C.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

With funding from the Lumina Foundation and through the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, the QA Commons last week announced a pilot project to assess higher education programs at 14 institutions around the country.” Via The New York Times : “ Google Unveils Job Training Initiative With $1 Billion Pledge.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Nicole Eramo, a former dean of students, is suing the magazine for $7.9 Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. ” “ Northwest Evaluation Association To Enter State Assessment Market,” says Education Week. “Is Estonia the new Finland ?” “Can U.S.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

” Via Education Week : “Market Is Booming for Digital Formative Assessments.” ” Via Education Week : “ Iowa schools to stop using $14M testing software after audit.” Via MinnPost : “Almost 50 years ago, Oregon Trail revolutionized educational software. How Google is ruining the Web.

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