21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I hope you are enjoying this series on formative assessment, and I am sure you will find these tools most valuable. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Back Channel for Formative Assessment.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. I will be providing workshops and featured sessions on STEM, PBL, Inquiry, Maker Space, and Computational Thinking! Check out my Booking Page.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This could include an anticipatory set, number sense routine, read aloud, mini lesson, work period, small groups, stations, etc. Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. Example 2: My reading or writing workshop starts with a mini lesson on the carpet.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 16, 2017

Erin and Ross are passionate about inquiry-based learning and have supported countless teachers in implementing it, through not only their school-based work but also through the PD and workshops they conduct. But it’s not always simple to plan, and manage, and assess, so we’re going to talk about some practical teaching strategies today.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This could include an anticipatory set, number sense routine, read aloud, mini lesson, work period, small groups, stations, etc. Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. Example 2: My reading or writing workshop starts with a mini lesson on the carpet.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This could include an anticipatory set, number sense routine, read aloud, mini lesson, work period, small groups, stations, etc. Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. Example 2: My reading or writing workshop starts with a mini lesson on the carpet.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 6, 2020

with Steve Hargadon || Automata for STEM Workshop No 1 - EU project (follow up from overview of the project) with Joel Josephson - Project partner || Build Your Own Virtual Library Learning Commons: Session 1 of 3 with Anita Brooks Kirkland, Chair | Professor David V. HOST : host a conversation.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Performance assessments that integrate evidence of teaching practices and student learning measured in a variety of ways (such as student work, lesson plans, assignments, in-person or video observations based on standards, and/or National Board assessment). Professional Learning Communities.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 16, 2017

This is a game probably best for the secondary classroom and adults, although I’m sure it could be adapted for the younger grades as well. I use this game in workshops and add my special spin on things. The slides can then be shared with the group and, of course, they learn some new Google Slides skills along the way.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Luckily for Nyakora — and the patient, Operation’s “Cavity Sam” —the surgery is only a game, part of a stress-management workshop for freshmen and sophomores in a program for underrepresented students here at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The man’s bright red nose lights up, and a buzzer sounds. Nyakora jumps, and his friends laugh.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 11, 2019

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: Jen Bengel explains the workshop model, how to create mini-lessons, and how to get students excited about books. So in this episode, we’re talking about the workshop model. You can use the workshop model with ANY age of students and ANY subject area. Want to listen instead of read ?

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2019

This group of nearly ten-thousand educators never fails to disappoint! I highly recommend you join us so you can connect and learn from this impressive group. Google Keep is also a part of G Suite for Education and is a great tool for students, especially secondary students. Perfect for saving a group of links for students!

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

At the same time, we must remember to connect to the content standards while facilitating and assessing 21st century skills. iEarn – Join interactive curriculum-based groups where students are creating, researching, sharing opinions and becoming global citizen. I have done 100’s of workshops and presentations.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

The mounting stress levels have sparked a trend of “resilience” trainings and workshops, which typically include yoga, mindfulness and meditation. About 28 percent of teachers are “chronically absent” (more than 10 school days a year). Stress is linked to many physical ailments, including migraines, asthma, and heart disease.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

But Say Yes also provides students with support specialists like Stubbe, access to medical and dental care, mental health counseling and legal clinics, plus after-school enrichment activities, college-readiness programs and mentoring; it provides students’ parents with job-readiness workshops and referrals to housing services.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. This workshop will introduce you to the 7-step model that we use to get schools teaching and learning effectively online. He likes the results a lot, and his students do, too.

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I imagine teachers sitting around tables together, collaborating on lesson plans, activities and assessments. There are books that focus specifically on teaching primary education, secondary education or higher and further education. Think about planning lessons in groups instead of alone. Practical Steps.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

Am I doing enough ongoing formal assessment of student comprehension, strategy use, and tolerance of ambiguity? Sitting in on numerous classes over the years reveals a key source of the problem: students are rarely expected to read a multi-page complete non-fiction text and be assessed on their grasp of it as a whole.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

Am I doing enough ongoing formal assessment of student comprehension, strategy use, and tolerance of ambiguity? Sitting in on numerous classes over the years reveals a key source of the problem: students are rarely expected to read a multi-page complete non-fiction text and be assessed on their grasp of it as a whole.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment. Sylvia Martinez will lead a pre-conference Invent To Learn workshop, plus a conference session. Friday, March 21st at 8:30am CoSN Workshop: You''ve Got Technology, Now What? Join here !

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MindShift

JUNE 8, 2016

TRU is five basic dimensions that will sound familiar to most teachers: content, cognitive demand, equitable access to content, agency, authority and identity, and uses of assessment. Mathematics Assessment Project). As a group they then categorize those observations into the five framework dimensions.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. This workshop will introduce you to the 7-step model that we use to get schools teaching and learning effectively online. He likes the results a lot, and his students do, too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

One of the most impactful activities from my Master’s coursework in secondary English education was a reader biography. Equipped with proven strategies for improving reading and writing skills, I was excited to challenge my young flock with a quick assessment of their reading habits to inform our next steps.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2017

03:39 Karen V: What I learned… I was privileged to go back for a second time as a study group leader to Project Zero a couple years after my initial experience there. And so, every year we conduct Project Zero workshops where we bring in teachers from all the surrounding areas. I didn’t teach my kids the specific routines.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 12, 2018

How about a few fresh strategies for energizing your information literacy instruction and preparing your secondary learners for their academic experience? Thing 4: Assessment Overview. Thing 20: Rubric-based Assessment. Thing 23: Assessing Dispositions. Need a little inspiration for the coming school year?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Stay tuned, because the second group of finalists will be featured on eSchool News next week! Alexander inspires an innovative approach to learning by embedding interventions led by Istation’s assessment data into the school’s daily instruction. Listed here in the order in which their nominations were received are program finalists.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Teachers in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, use a curriculum that mixes teacher-directed whole-class phonics lessons with small-group activities. More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 17, 2023

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project promotes a workshop model for reading and writing and has numerous units of study as a curriculum and many resources available for teachers. When we look at text bands, though, we can group students within a band together to read for a book club.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

DeVry Education Group got a new CEO." Here are the areas that have seen the most ed-tech investment activity so far this year: Learning to code : Investments include Galvanize ($45,000,000), Codecademy ($30,000,000), Andela ($24,000,000), Wonder Workshop ($20,000,000), Revature ($20,000,000). K12 Inc got a new CEO.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle. Altius Education. And I’d never gotten my Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Led by advertising and public-relations strategists, the groups have long plied the tools of their trade on impressionable children and teachers desperate for resources. As early as the 1940s, the industry’s largest and most powerful lobby group targeted K-12 schools as a key element of its fledgling marketing strategy.

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