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AI in the Classroom: Crafting Responsible Guidelines for Educators and Learners

The Thinking Stick

Sharing your experiences can foster a community of learning where everyone benefits from collective insights and strategies. This includes teaching students to critically assess AI-generated content and to use AI as a tool for learning enhancement rather than a shortcut. These are the draft statements.

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Vocabulary Haiku: A Creative Approach to Deeping Understanding of Academic Vocabulary

Catlin Tucker

Although routines like this are beneficial for learners, teachers would often tell me that they were looking for more creative strategies for deepening students’ understanding of and ability to use academic vocabulary. Write a haiku poem for that term, using the guidelines for writing a haiku. Select a vocabulary term.

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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

To do so, they need to have a proper assessment strategy in place. In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. Conscious efforts need to be made to bring application skills or higher cognitive skills to the assessment.

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What is A Portfolio Assessment?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the concepts of portfolio and portfolio assessment have garnered significant attention as comprehensive tools for evaluating student growth. This post delves into the intricacies of portfolio assessment, drawing primarily on the insightful research presented in the works of Valeri-Gold et al.

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Peer Feedback: Making It Meaningful

Catlin Tucker

Given the bombastic pressure on teachers this year (and every year), I’ve been working on strategies to help support students in giving each other feedback. Peer feedback is most effective when it is focused, and students have clear guidelines for giving feedback. but to avoid making notes on the other student’s work.

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Risk assessments are awful, but necessary

eSchool News

While risk assessments are one of the best things a K-12 school can do to understand their cybersecurity vulnerabilities in order to be strategic about how to protect against them, this critical tool is often avoided. Yes, risk assessments are far from sunshine and roses. In fact, the best assessments are done through teamwork.

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How to assess your school’s indoor air quality

eSchool News

COVID-19 ushered forth a plethora of new safety guidelines and strategies intended to bring students and teachers back to the classroom as safely as possible. Indoor air quality has topped the list of school leaders’ concerns.