Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available. Also, teachers will embed web tools (i.e.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Karen Voglesang on episode 209 [A special encore episode] of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. There’s videos out there so that you can see what this actually looks like in a classroom, whether it’s early childhood, middle childhood, if it’s secondary.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 19, 2022

A second problem comes in the article’s view of who’s involved in post-secondary teaching. The problem is that the piece cites a liberal arts campus as an example of post-secondary education as a whole. At one point the professor refers to “the vague ontology of remote learning.” That’s about 2.5%

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

A conversation with Dr. Kimberly Tyson and Dr. Angela Peery on episode 94 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Twitter handle:@ tysonkimberly and @ drangelapeery. Follow the hashtag #blendedvocab on Twitter to see content from the book. I love Shahi.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug Green on episode 284 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You want to make sure that your formative assessments are based on where the student is at, not some kind of standard that every student in your classroom has to jump through. Bio as submitted.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How do kids learn and remember? Blog: [link] Twitter: @mr_stadel Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Blog: [link] Twitter: @mr_stadel Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Julie Hembree on episode 233 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Twitter: @mrs_hembree. But that’s not all. Bulldog Reader Blog [link].

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 15, 2016

Gardner, participants, and I explored pedagogy, the power of the hyperlink, data, instructors, institutions, eportfolios, language, students, assessment, a great card deck, our personal histories, and a lot more. Twitter activity started well, became excited, then spilled over past the event’s ending, which I Storified.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 15, 2016

Gardner, participants, and I explored pedagogy, the power of the hyperlink, data, instructors, institutions, eportfolios, language, students, assessment, a great card deck, our personal histories, and a lot more. Twitter activity started well, became excited, then spilled over past the event’s ending, which I Storified.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Sean Nank on episode 228 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Dr. Sean Nank’s research shows that the single biggest method for improving learning with iPads is to use online formative assessments. Masterful Math: Randomizing Formative Math Assessment.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Implementation in the primary grades may look different from the examples in this post, but don’t assume that this is just for secondary students. Also, it is a place for students to reflect on formative assessments such as quizzes. For additional support, please refer to the Google Support Center for Google Sites.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 25, 2015

The school uses various assessment practices to analyze student performance, target instruction, and provide students with feedback in order to increase student achievement and academic progress over time. Not one teacher is deemed Ineffective and only 5 are Developing., 90% are Effective and 5% are highly Effective.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Future Ready has developed a common set of information, tools, and assessment, that are all available for free. We are getting ready to set up 2-3 new library spaces & would love to know what resources are out there to share as a reference for the principals as we start to plan.”. Follow her on Twitter @mluhtala.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2020

Video and Infographic From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teachers are moving from face to face classrooms to online classrooms quickly. in Secondary Education from Ball State University. Top online course designers who have also taught face to face tell us how. She received her M.Ed.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. She teaches courses in educational technology for the undergraduate elementary, undergraduate secondary, and Masters and Certification programs. Website [link] Twitter @lkolb. Episode 794 - Transcript. Thank you for listening.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available. Also, teachers will embed web tools (i.e.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2019

By combining all of this data, teaching SEL skills and doing the SOS assessment, not only are we having serious and meaningful conversations with families, but we are saving lives,” explains Dain. And we share that data with parents so they can see how their child scores during that assessment window. They also can see the trend data.

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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. Secondary teachers and YA librarians: this is a great opportunity for special programming. In this webinar, we’ll cover all the valuable resources it offers to support game-based learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2015

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with students I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have time for. Also, teachers will embed web tools (i.e.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Just a disclaimer though, I am a high school math teacher, so a few of the tech-tools I reference in this post belong mostly in a secondary math classroom, but with a little elbow grease and ingenuity, there are ways to fit them into any K-12 math curriculum as well.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2017

episode 134 with Karen Voglesang on the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. There’s videos out there so that you can see what this actually looks like in a classroom, whether it’s early childhood, middle childhood, if it’s secondary.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Catlin Tucker , a blended learning coach and teacher of 16 years, shares her expertise about tackling the different aspects of blended teaching including engagement, group work, and assessment in a virtual classroom or hybrid setting. Don’t try to assess every part of every assignment, every time. Absolutely.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. These assessments might be used to engage learners in discussion before an inquiry.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

She was recently chosen to be a Teacher of the Future by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), and she has also been named a Top Education Influencer on Twitter. Maker Thinking is related to the DIY mindset and refers to a process of thinking through making, emphasizing tinkering resourcefulness.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. ” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Now, I’m not sure if this particular educator was referring to global climate change or not when he dismissed history. “I’m beginning to suspect,” he tweeted, that history is “less and less relevant in understanding the near (and far) future.” It’s not that they didn’t hold lectures.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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