Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is a type of project-based learning distinguished by its insistence that students engage with, investigate , and act on authentic and motivating challenges. Teachers and students have enjoyed the Challenge Collaborative experience, but the journey has just begun.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Helping Children Overcome Depression Using the resources and strategies from this course, you will be able to support your students struggling with depression to help them redirect their thinking and pursue academic success in spite of the challenges they’re facing. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 25, 2021

The post 4 Projects that Go Beyond Traditional Assessment – SULS0111 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Jen shares ideas that will help teachers go BEYOND traditional assessments like reports, essays, presentations, and cookie-cutter assignments. 4 Projects that Go Beyond Traditional Assessment with @virtualgiff.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

Using edtech to personalize education for students is already something that many educators do by incorporating technology in teaching activities , such as: Learning management systems (LMSs). Online games and assessments. It will understand that the student excels at syntax while they still need a bit of extra help with the tenses. .

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Linways Technologies

JUNE 11, 2020

We have previously written about topics like engaging your students in an online learning environment and assessing student performance in online classes. It’s an added advantage if your learning management tool could also help you with push notifications to engage with your students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2018

Teachers get tangled in a web of standards, mission statements, and assessments, and spend too much time on what their institution considers essential. We can’t teach students everything they’ll ever need but what we can inspire them to be lifelong learners, to know how to figure something out when it slaps them in the face.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

How much speed do you need? Here are three different areas of connectivity K–12 IT teams may want to consider when deciding how to configure their schools’ networks: MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how K–12 schools are preparing their infrastructures for IoT integration! Individual Classroom Technology Use.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Joseph Valver and his fellow instructional technology facilitators at Hamilton Township School District in New Jersey were providing numerous options for educators in their district to learn how to use education technology, but something was holding educators back. . “As Google Classroom Tools Let Educators Access PD Anywhere.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing deepens learning and positively impacts academic performance, improves our students’ ability to establish and maintain relationships, and helps students manage their complex emotions. They may not have received explicit instruction on how to teach writing in their subject areas. Graham, S., & Hebert, M.

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Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 17, 2021

This is a great tool to help understand high school student social-emotional needs and how to support them with strategies and interventions. The platform is gamified to optimize student engagement and motivation. It also provides immediate results so students and teachers can take action right away.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As we saw in that blog, a Rubric is a set of criteria/guidelines to assess and evaluate learning. So how do we create a rubric for classrooms. . How to develop a rubric for your classroom. Step 3 : Define the assessment criteria. How do you want to assess performance?; Step 2 : Choose the rubric type.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 7, 2022

Generate result reports to track student progress; . Make sure students are on track to achieve their learning goals. . Let’s focus on the types of assignments LMSs offer and how they can benefit you and your students. . How to use LMS assignments? . Quizzes are the quickest way to assess student knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Destiny, 18, is like most students in the United States. Surveys reveal a steady decline in student engagement throughout middle and high school, a trend that Gallup deemed the “school engagement cliff.” Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Some teachers who have already incorporated augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) technology into their classrooms or lesson plans have seen amazing benefits in student engagement and retention. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how K–12 teachers are using VR to teach computer science. Take K–12 Students on a Trip with VR.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 11, 2022

NoRedInk offers teachers an interactive platform where they can create classes, share assignments, and run diagnostic assessments. Using Assessment Library, teachers can browse through, preview and create different types of assessments including quizzes, unit diagnostics, passage quizzes, and many more.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 18, 2018

However, issues with classroom equity have left some students unable to perform, not because they are having trouble grasping the material but because of issues related to geography, race, gender, ethnicity, language or economics. Understanding how to improve equity starts with an understanding of what your school district lacks.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Andre Pecina, assistant superintendent of student services at Golden Plains Unified School District, heads a team through the Data Ready 2021 cohort to address chronic absenteeism that has worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Before a district like Golden Plains can implement an interoperable solution, it must achieve data readiness.

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edWeb.net

MAY 30, 2019

We, as edtech leaders and classroom teachers, must explore pathways where assessments support teaching and learning in the 21st century. Authentic assessments are always about the connections we make with students, each other, and the broader community as indicated in a Gallup poll. But What About Technology?

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ExcelinEd

JULY 23, 2020

We reviewed these resources and identified four questions states and schools can consider as they assess parent satisfaction with distance learning. As schools across the country grapple with how to safely re-open, we are still learning about the educational experiences of students and parents throughout the spring.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Faculty are essential to making sure students successfully navigate community colleges to earn degrees and launch careers—but they aren’t always as involved in that effort as they could be. Nearly two-thirds of about 4,000 faculty at colleges using guided pathways reported they are somewhat or very involved in that work.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2021

The Aperture Student Portal includes gamified goal-setting and SEL self-assessments offering a research-backed approach to understanding students’ needs. Goal-setting and having a voice in their own learning are powerful motivators for students, especially those in high school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A 2000 report by the National Reading Panel downplayed the effectiveness of SSR despite evidence to the contrary. This report was foundational in crafting the Reading First program and has since skewed the importance of oral reading in the US. Learn how to find the right reading intervention for your school at our Oct 23rd webinar.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What will the final assessment be, and how will the experience provide the necessary scaffolding for students to be successful? Consider placement of content and checks for understanding Go through the template to determine where and how content and assessment can be delivered within the narrative.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The results were “sobering,” according to a March 2020 report, “ Learning by Scientific Design; Early insights from a network informing teacher preparation.” One common misunderstanding, according to the report, is mistaking student engagement for learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 27, 2016

School leaders, policymakers can use ESSA to focus on boosting learning, achievement for students. Two new reports offer school leaders research-based evidence to help them leverage the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to improve learning outcomes for students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Almost three-quarters of educators believe that physical comfort while using edtech has an impact on student engagement. 2 And, over half of students report discomfort when using laptops 3. Ergonomic problems are likely contributing to discomfort and sapping engagement in today’s schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time. Binders holding student work display the pathway for kindergarten math, which somewhat resembles the Candy Land board game. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. And Daniel A.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

But in addition to being an important outcome, learner agency may also be an undervalued resource for schools, especially when they have less control over how to structure students’ time and attention. The impacts of COVID-19 are highlighting at least three ways in which schools can benefit from nurturing students’ agency: 1.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You can only develop the goals through a combination of evidence: attendance rate, three-year historical state assessment data, graduation rates (if applicable), CTE completion (if applicable), student evidence in ongoing formative assessments, teacher observations and qualitative feedback from students, teachers and the community.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

. In the education world, it is often said that what gets assessed gets addressed. Many educators have questions, though, about how to measure social and emotional learning (SEL) topics like relationship skills and self-awareness, even when they believe such skills should be addressed. Two newly developed tools can help.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2021

Aperture’s research-backed DESSA assessment integrates with Ascend’s goal-setting software to create a powerful, engaging new SEL tool for high school students. The acquisition also marks a period of significant growth for Aperture which now serves nearly 1 million students and 42,000 educators in nearly 500 school districts.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

For anyone involved in education, the importance of engagement is clear. And the need for both student engagement and buy-in cannot be overstated when it comes to device rollout. The more aligned students are with teachers, and the more aligned students are with one another, the more effective any implementation will be.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 3, 2017

And while most students will have the motivation to work through the content, guided by their own learning objectives, many will simply find it too much and give up. Students need to see a clear path through the content. A key method of creating stimulation and motivation in an online course is to foster student relationships.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

She invested $19 — the cost of hosting a website — and created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, in tables clearly organized by grade level and subject matter, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

Technology can bring about new learning opportunities, support student engagement, help create a collaborative learning environment, and provide necessary and immediate feedback, among other digital age skills. So how does a teacher find new edtech products suitable for their classroom and determine their value?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions. The implications of these findings are far-reaching for educators and researchers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Read part one to learn how this teacher improved her student feedback system to increase student engagement. At Forest Ridge, an independent all-girls school serving students in grades 5-12 in Bellevue, Wash., we've been grappling with how to support students in focusing on growth over grades for years.

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