Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Assessing student learning used to be as simple as giving a test that consisted of multiple choice, True/False, short answer, and/or essay. Habits, templates, and routines are much easier than reinventing the assessment wheel but a tool that results in passionate students committed to lifelong learning gets my attention.

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Assessment Learning Digital Citizenship Guidelines 178

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. Below is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) graph of daily COVID cases in the U.S. Indeed, it’s so aspirational that most states are not trying to reach that level with their annual assessments. emphasis added].

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Assessment Report Comparison Outcomes 363

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Course: Designing Blended Learning for Student Engagement and Achievement “By the end of the course, you will be able to design and implement meaningful blended learning experiences with objective-aligned assessments and activities that foster core 21st-century skills.”

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Blended Learning Social Media Differentiated Instruction Learning 404

Teacher Tech

MARCH 10, 2019

Common Sense Media and Formative Assessment If you are not familiar with Common Sense Media allow me to introduce you to this great resource for helping parents and teachers navigate the digital world. The post Make Formative Assessment More Student Centered appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Assessment Resources 93

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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Social Media Policies Handbook Guidelines 71

Teacher Tech

MARCH 10, 2019

Common Sense Media and Formative Assessment If you are not familiar with Common Sense Media allow me to introduce you to this great resource for helping parents and teachers navigate the digital world. The post Make Formative Assessment More Student Centered appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Assessment Resources 78

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

How can teachers design student-centered lessons that encourage students to learn with and from each other? We also discussed how traditional forms of assessment might not accurately measure students’ learning or provide them with opportunities to transfer their learning in authentic and meaningful contexts.

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UDL Blended Learning Learning Assessment 442

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Assessment. This is not the case when assessing its students’ digital literacy levels. Tashjian and her staff offer mixed-level classes for now, but the educators must spend more time assessing the needs their students have as they walk in the door. “That is what keeps us going over here,” Tashjian told me.

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Assessment Accessibility Tablets Digital Badges 209

Graphite Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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Social Media Policies Handbook Guidelines 40

Graphite Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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Social Media Policies Handbook Guidelines 40

Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

PBS Learning Media videos PBS Learning has a video series for middle school and high school students called “Above the Noise.” You’ll find learning goals, resources, formative assessments and extended learning opportunities. Hāpara Card Talks allows you to have conversations with learners about digital citizenship issues.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Elementary OER 274

Tom Murray

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The gears of the FRS Framework are as follows: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. In a Future Ready district, curriculum, instruction, and assessment are tightly aligned, redesigned to engage students in 21st Century, relevant, technology-empowered, deeper learning.

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Future Ready Classroom Student Data Privacy Professional Learning 279

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

By integrating personal devices with their interactive board, these companies are creating a way for teachers to combine student-centered methods with their high-tech display.” classrooms, this level of infrastructure will support media-rich assessments and classroom use — but not for all classrooms at the same time.

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Broadband Survey Mobility EdTech 319

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2024

This is a great opportunity to partner with other teachers as well as your school’s media center/library resource staff. The performance assessment of oral histories could be in the form of podcasts, movies, interviews, as well as the more traditional writing.

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Secondary Analysis Learning Study 138

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2022

Much attention has been paid to the potential role of social media in that crisis. The research that we do have is inadequate in terms of helping us understand the ways in which the internet and social media affect youth well-being.” If we change kids’ social media use, will that change their mental health?

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Social Media Study Company Analysis 209

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

. — IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 14 million students, announced that it has been added to Utah’s K-12 Math Personalized Learning Software Grant list by the state’s STEM Action Center. IXL’s Analytics suite gives Utah educators clear and useful insights for all levels of their districts.

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Personalized Learning STEM IXL Learning Differentiated Instruction 97

Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2021

The teacher, library media tech, or counselor can be involved with reflection exercises, which are really where the rubber meets the road—as kids make connections between who they are and who they want to become.”. You have these beautiful experiences that we do in different modalities in the classroom, but now they’re up on the walls.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Digital Promise has launched five Challenge Collaboratives centered on Challenge Map topics: Real World Learning, Assessment Data Interoperability, Computational Thinking Pathways, OER Deeper Learning for NGSS, and Computational Thinking for NGSS. — Kirk Koennecke (@GLSSuperFalcon) October 12, 2018.

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OER Case Study Meeting Assessment 254

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2024

Ninety-two percent check social media daily. But they still like print, and they still like to go to the library, according to a survey of Gen Z and Millennial public library use and media consumption released by the American Library Association last fall.

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Libraries Survey Study Laptops 211

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

SEL Courses Assessment Strategies for SEL In this course, you’ll get up to speed on current practices in SEL, including the history and legislation that has propelled it to the forefront of our educational focus. Online Assessment. Assessment must respect learners, provide actionable feedback, and motivate. Look at this course.

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Course Assessment Online Assessments Strategy 486

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Fostering relationships with students and peers, to encourage community growth and a deeper understanding of personal contribution through reflection, Sackstein has continued to elevate her students by putting them at the center of the learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2021

Now is the time to focus on purposeful use aligned to sound instructional strategies (review of prior learning, checks for understanding, closure, assessment). Leverage your superstars – There is no better way to make headway with remote and hybrid learning than to put the work of your trailblazers' front and center.

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Blended Learning Learning Professional Learning LMS 498

eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As members of the media have bemoaned the tragic results of students on the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—also known as the nation’s report card—many have been all too willing to jump into the game of who is responsible.

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Assessment Report Elementary Groups 89

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

The team at STEM Minds have developed a series of micro-credentials that validate skills relating to video game design, coding, robotics, and digital art and media.*. The micro-credential centers on how educators can facilitate a design thinking experience with students to solve real-world challenges. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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STEM Advocacy Robotics Strategy 202

Digital Promise

JULY 24, 2017

Between guilt-tinged uncertainty about screen time for kids ( “So, if you’re using it for good, does it count as screen time?” ) and worry about social media stress for teens, it’s easy to feel like a lost traveler without a GPS. For parents, the family computer has become something of a minefield (and probably a Minecraft field).

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Internet Safety Exercises Social Media Facebook 274

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When it comes to AI, we can’t afford the same wait-and-see approach many governments took to regulating social media. Policy always lags innovation, but when it comes to AI, we can’t afford the same wait-and-see approach many governments took to regulating social media, for example.

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Policies Social Media Company Learning 92

eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2023

Together, Renaissance’s assessments, instruction, and insights provide a complete, comprehensive solution—while keeping educators at the forefront of classroom decisions and instruction. To learn more about Renaissance’s new brand identity and teacher-centered learning ecosystem, please visit [link].

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Social Media Education Survey Conference 86

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2017

Competency-based education and standards-based grading efforts that shift the focus of assessment from seat time to learning mastery. Redesigned learning spaces that accommodate flexible, student-centered grouping and learning tasks rather than classrooms that are dictated by instructor or janitorial needs. Related Posts.

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Software Video Assessment Accessibility 236

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Kevin Baird, Chairman of the Global Center for College and Career Readiness, and Ruth Brus, National Faculty at the Center and Vice President of Learning Services at Meteor Education, explored these questions in the edLeader Panel “ Best Leadership Practices: Managing Devices and Technology for Distraction-Free Learning.”

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Mobility Survey Future Ready Social Media 100

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

She used social media, specifically Twitter, to increase student engagement as well as relevancy and meaning. The teacher also included an example of an actual tweet from a current student as well as a detailed rubric providing students with the performance requirements on how they would be assessed.

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Social Media Assessment Twitter Student Engagement 290

EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 31, 2024

Unlike datacenter proxies, which originate from servers in data centers, residential proxies mimic real user connections. Unlike commercial IP addresses from data centers, residential IPs are linked to individual households. Additionally, assess the provider’s infrastructure to guarantee optimal speed and minimal downtime.

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Data Social Media Accessibility Google 100

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

As reported in April 2016 (the most recent year for which data is available from the National Assessment of Educational Progress ) only 37 percent of high school seniors in the U.S. will be able to handle college-level reading, and only 25 percent will grasp college-level math. Personalized Learning Aids All Students.

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Personalized Learning Tools Blended Learning Differentiated Instruction 326

Neo LMS

MAY 11, 2021

Students give their opinions on multiple aspects, including teaching methods, assessments, and results. They are great for evaluating multiple aspects such as satisfaction with teaching in general, extracurricular activities, technology access, infrastructure, and auxiliary facilities such as the school media center.

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Survey LMS Accessibility EdTech 235

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

Alternatively, teachers can assess students’ prior knowledge with an individual task and collect useful data to inform their follow-up instruction. Third, follow the video content with an offline student-centered activity that invites groups to work collaboratively to apply the information presented in the video.

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Flipped Classroom Classroom Schoology Video 420

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

Increasingly, many schools and states are deciding that the answer is to surveil—through social media monitoring, facial recognition cameras, threat assessment and other emerging technologies. When it comes to monitoring students’ internet searches and social media activity, troubles abound. That is the question U.S.

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Social Media Data Video Policies 146

Graphite Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

This is why we’ve created our Social and Emotional Learning in Digital Life Resource Center. Not to mention, digital citizenship lessons can help students reflect on their media use , how it makes them feel, and its impacts on their emotional health. See Google's cookie information for details.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Google Video 95

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Achievement Center of Texas that’s currently using Milo reported an improved attention span, a higher response rate, and better results in students. An emotionally active robot like MONICA assesses the students’ cognitive states, i.e., is the student concentrating, distracted, or inactive? Erica the News Anchor.

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Robotics Classroom Learning Tablets 323