techieMusings

JUNE 10, 2016

Using TodaysMeet to Enhance Socratic Seminars in English Assessment. These are just a few general recommendations: Google specific — Google for Education: Training Center. free, online training courses designed by Google for Education. Google Apps Learning Center.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 19, 2022

Listen to this description of class problems: students and instructors alike seem to have endless tasks: a constant deluge of boxes to tick, videos to watch, assessments to mark. Over the past two years I’ve taught a series of HyFlex seminars at Georgetown. These aren’t HyFlex problems, but issues with online teaching.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Students take an entrance assessment and grade it together as a class. Students are then given the opportunity to attend a teacher-led session around the topics addressed in the assessment. Yet instead of the teacher dictating who needs to be at the seminar, each student decides if he or she needs additional help.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The students came up with the project themselves and designed a Google form to track their phone time, including which apps they used most. Students chat about the data analysis they’ve performed on their cellphone usage over a week, while Perizzolo walks around the room fielding their questions.

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Gaggle Speaks

APRIL 25, 2016

We were fortunate this year to sponsor the California School Public Relations Association (CalSPRA) Annual Seminar. Creates 21st-century learners using Google Apps for Education as part of its 1:1 initiative. It’s at events like these where our team can have important conversations about student online safety.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. We have a first-year seminar where they’re teaching students how to read scientific papers and then they take the students to the labs where the papers were written. EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It’s not a Socratic seminar where I sit back and just watch it unfold. It’s really powerful.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I usually write these down in a Google Doc or Google Keep note and then break them down from there. Send out a Google Form for ideas. Include quick assessments after any content knowledge. Include an online discussion, a book talk, an online socratic seminar, etc. Think Shmoop ! .

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form. Attending sessions and seminars at these events can also provide valuable professional development.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

“There’s an opportunity to connect [NYU] students with jobs and internships at the companies in the program,” says Jonathan Harber, StartED’s managing partner, who is also teaching a graduate-level seminar at NYU on the subject. The edtech industry reached peak accelerator in 2015 , when at least 14 such programs dotted the map.

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iLearn Technology

APRIL 23, 2018

Students can create and share a book talk or chapter reflection, discuss current events, delve into a topic, engage in an online Socratic seminar around a given topic, collaborate, verbalize their learning process, etc. Flipgrid is also a great way to build a growth mindset and self-assessment.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2016

Topics for the day included the following ( and then some ): Google Classroom. Literacy and Assessment. Socrative Seminars. All of our Lightning Round sites were collected in an editable Google Doc, where people can continue to add more to share with the group over time. Makerspaces. Digital Portfolios. Guided Reading.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2017

Things like Todaysmeet, [link] things like Twitter www.twitter.com Let’s figure out how to infuse formative assessment tools, things like Kahoot www.getkahoot.com and Google Forms forms.google.com to elevate a teacher like that. (Editor’s note, it looks like the new list has it at.60

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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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Kathy Schrock

JULY 24, 2017

Her thoughts and ideas deal with student choice, and include: Allow students choice in the format of their assessments. For instance, use Google Maps along with a novel, have students interview experts on Skype and follow experts on Twitter or in a Reddit group to gather their information for a research paper, etc.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 20, 2015

After I’ve completed this, I repeat the same process with my Google Docs and Evernote notebooks, as well as email and browser bookmarks -- purge, label, organize. The first is a goal to address a particular problem or shortcoming in a course -- perhaps that unit assessment I noticed that needs updating to reflect recent curricular changes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

EduLab , a subsidiary of JIEM, a Japanese research and assessment provider. (It Two of its direct investments are graduates from the LearnLaunch program: Listenwise , a listening comprehension service that uses public radio programs as source materials, and Authess , a digital, performance-based assessment tool.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 22, 2015

This was a feature I actually had on my blog for many years, and teachers could type their questions into a Google form anonymously for me to answer on the blog. So, if you have a question you’d like me to answer here on the podcast, let me know via audio (below or on the main Podcast page) or the Google form.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Online collaborative tools such as Google Docs and Skype could be utilized to work on projects from afar. Dialogue with others we respect and trust is how people have learned for thousands of year (see Socratic seminar for an example). Technically, we could facilitate the course through the learning management system (Canvas).

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Online collaborative tools such as Google Docs and Skype could be utilized to work on projects from afar. Dialogue with others we respect and trust is how people have learned for thousands of year (see Socratic seminar for an example). Technically, we could facilitate the course through the learning management system (Canvas).

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

We need to build in mechanisms into our lessons to collect formative assessment data. In my previous post, I focused on strategies teachers can use before a lesson to assess prior knowledge. Polling is a quick way to assess what your students think about a topic, vocabulary word, or problem. Poll the Class with Mentimeter.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. And still, within a mastery-based flipped learning classroom, there would be time to spare for projects, genius hours and Socratic seminars galore.

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ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

an engineering class she was once doing an in-class assessment with). Instead of having the same 3-4 students answer all questions on behalf of the class, using a personal response system such as NearPod, Socrative or even Google Forms can allow all students in the class an opportunity to participate.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

We need to build in mechanisms into our lessons to collect formative assessment data. In my previous post, I focused on strategies teachers can use before a lesson to assess prior knowledge. Polling is a quick way to assess what your students think about a topic, vocabulary word, or problem. Poll the Class with Mentimeter.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It has become increasingly possible to personalize learning–adapt resources and assessments to student skills and needs and differentiate lessons that are pushed out to individual students or small groups ( read: Shifting my Teacher Mindset with Micro-credentials ). Constructive Conversations – Assessing Student Conversations.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

It’s hard to have a discussion or answer a question that can’t be immediately looked up by searching Google. This method is still sound 1600 years after Socrates and 15-ish years after the Socratic Seminars were first established. Have you ever prepared for a lengthy discussion in class and had it finish in less than five minutes?

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2018

As she explored this problem in the McIntosh seminar, Kirr stumbled across the concept of Genius Hour , a teaching tactic based on a practice at Google, that many teachers are trying. Google found that some of its most successful and innovative products came from projects its employees developed on their own time.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” “ Amplify Slims Down and Spins Off Assessment Content Provider, Fluence ,” says Edsurge. And now, onward, with 5 more months of presidential campaigning. ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. ” – 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.

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