A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2024

In today's rapidly changing world, where new challenges and technologies emerge at an unprecedented pace, students need to be relevant thinkers to successfully navigate the complex social, economic, and environmental issues they will face. Quadrant B - Application : Application refers to putting knowledge into action within familiar contexts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Screencastify and Screencasting for Formative Assessment (a sponsored post) From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Screencasting is a useful assessment tool. While I use it for my video tutorials, I also have my students make their own screencasts to help me assess their progress.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Teacher Mike Roberts give five strategies that can help us with formative assessment AND classroom management. 5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Help with Classroom Management. Now, Mike, you have five ideas for us today, to do formative assessments. Formative Assessment Idea #1: High-Five Hands. And its free!

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 4, 2018

The 6 Fundamentals of Technology Coaching. Schools often launch new technology without a plan for supporting and coaching teachers through the process of using the devices and software in their classrooms. Supporting teachers is key to launching and continuing the marriage of educational technology and curriculum.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2023

With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. It can be traced back to an ingrained fear of the unknown , a protective psychological response that’s hard-wired into our brains to shield us from potential threats.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

As technology advances, K-12 education embraces these transformative tools to prepare students for a rapidly evolving, technology-driven world, ensuring a more interactive, efficient, and inclusive educational landscape. What is an educational technology tool? What is educational technology in the classroom?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2023

Accomplishing that is only possible when teachers can streamline their work so that they can focus on more critical areas such as teaching and assessing. Making one requires using a template or point of reference. This is where learning models come in. Copyright ©2023 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 16, 2017

This post will outline the aims of the PYP (the Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate) and the role that technology plays in helping teachers and students to achieve those goals. For more information, please refer to the IB website. What does the PYP say about technology? Making the PYP Happen).

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 13, 2018

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Joshua Elliott talks about implementing new technology and some cool tools he’s using in his college classroom. Joshua Elliott Director of Educational Technology Fairfield University I am the Director of Educational Technology at Fairfield University.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Leslie Swanson-Anaya @InspiredLeslie elementary teacher of the year for Texas region 15 has ideas for awesome technology stations. Learn how she helps students learn and progress using technology. Five Ideas for Technology Stations. It helps give them a frame of reference. Enhanced Transcript. Friday, September 8, 2017.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The overreaching goal for each session was to support instructional strategies aligned to rigor & relevance and the 6 C's with a focus on the purposeful use of technology. Both the math and reading sessions focused on how edtech could be used during independent work, formative assessment, and pedagogically-sound blended learning.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2023

While several sources offer a multitude of criteria for assessing the credibility and quality of online content, for the purpose of this discussion, we turn to the well-structured framework provided by Dalhousie University. Authority When evaluating a website’s authority, you’re essentially assessing the credibility of the source.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. Check out Designing Online Assessments for Students — a course that can help you in this area.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

Nearly 19,000 KIPP Public School students have taken the YouScience Discovery Assessment since the partnership began in 2016. YouScience is the only provider of a fully-integrated platform that delivers highly accurate aptitude-based assessments, personalized career guidance, and industry-recognized certifications.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Consider less of a focus on lesson plans and more on assessment by collecting these two weeks into the future. As you come across research that supports the types of effective pedagogical techniques you wish to see in your classrooms, archive it in a document that you can refer to when writing up observations.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Recently Shaelynn Farnsworth and I had a great and engaging discussion on the topic of Formative Assessment for ACER Education. Some of the highlights: What Is Formative Assessment —As you can tell from our video, there are many ways to describe formative assessment. Formative Assessments should not be graded assessments.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

Cognitive The cognitive domain refers to the content knowledge and skills students must acquire to engage in deeper learning. Technology is good at transferring information. Technology has the advantage of putting students in control of the pace at which they acquire and process new information.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With EdTech gaining ground, educational institutions, including schools and higher education institutions are increasingly leveraging the advances in technology to support their classrooms. The generation of today is addicted to online games, a fact that education technology has used to its advantage.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 9, 2020

Learn how to create digital assessments. As with anything we do in education, we don’t start with the tools and technologies, we must start with the research. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. What will you receive?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 12, 2018

Jacqui Murray shares how we can encourage an improvement in writing using technology. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. We’re counting them down! This is the #4 Episode of Season 3 of the 10-Minute Teacher.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

It was an unmitigated disaster in Maine,” Eyler admits, referring to a 2012 state law mandated that schools move to “proficiency-based” grading (a flavor of standards-based grading). But the track record for such reforms is mixed. “It Meanwhile, some schools have successfully made the switch, such as Santa Fe Public Schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 11, 2022

From technology to interpersonal skills to ponderings from history, sometimes patterns emerge between random books in surprising ways. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Head to Lumio for more information and to sign up for FREE.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

CoSN’s Driving K-12 Innovation Advisory Board–made up of 140+ global educators and IT professionals–has selected three top Hurdles, Accelerators, and Tech Enablers impacting education technology for the coming year. Too often edtech stalwarts start with the technology when advocating innovation. Krueger, CEO of CoSN.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

Let me explain why: In today’s world of education, blended learning gets thrown around for any type of new education involving technology. . To start, teachers have two stations: a technology-enhanced station and a teacher-led station. Stage two involves differentiating those stations. Let us know how you fare on this journey.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Jacqui Murray shares how we can encourage an improvement in writing using technology. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. 5 Ideas for Writing with Technology. Vicki: Today we’re talking with Jacqui Murray @askatechteacher about writing with technology.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

That number refers to customer retention rate, and Bencivenga said he’s called off potential acquisitions when a company’s performance in this department isn’t up to snuff. CaseNEX DataCation bought Pals, a reading assessment platform, in 2012. Customer gap refers to the segment of customers a buyer might add via an acquired product.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Over two and a half days, district leaders explored how emerging technologies can support powerful learning, surfaced and shared innovative learnings and leadership practices, and helped us welcome the League of Innovative Schools 2022-2023 cohort. Keynote speaker, Michael Bonner, addressing League convening attendees.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

For the purpose of this article, AI ethics in education will refer to principles that govern the use of AI so that individual rights, privacy, and well-being are respected within the entirety of the educational ecosystem. References Akgun, S., Greenhow, C.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Talk about the real human beings who create and manage the technology as well as the real human beings who are impacted by technology. Williams, who serves as a Learning and Technology Resources Specialist with Florida Diagnostic & Resources Learning System ( FDLRS ). One that I use and refer to often is Insight Timer.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 8, 2017

She always used to say, referring to her scissors: A great tool does half the job for you. becomes… … Technology does half the job for educators! The past 10 years have witnessed more significant and significantly more technology advances than the previous 50 years combined. Chasing technology.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 29, 2019

Image from JISC publication This table is very useful summary for anyone who is interested in aligning assessment with teaching methods. This include assessment and feedback - which are vital in scaffolding the student's progress through their education. References Biggs, J., References Biggs, J., and Tang, C.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Assessment. It's important because it shows that assessment drives they way we teach. Cathy proposes a causal link between the way we conduct assessment in formalised education and the deficit we see today in the workplace. Do you have good examples of authentic assessment? References Biggs, J. and Tang, C.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Welcome to Part 2 of our EdTech terminology post — where we hope to give you a relatively simple roadmap to help navigate the thickets of education technology buzzwords and phrases that tend to appear in discussions and debates. On balance I have found more references to the definition pertaining to pace.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2019

With all the promise that educational technology holds, several pitfalls are always on the minds of educators. The top two issues that commonly come up in my talks with educators are the technology (Internet, hardware, devices, apps) not working or off-task behavior on the part of students. So, what did I miss?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Visible refers to making student learning visible to teachers so both parties know it’s working. Learning refers to the need to place learning at the forefront of teaching where it has the greatest impact on students. Assessment is about my impact. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 20 years.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 9, 2018

” She was referring to our screener results, the computerized assessments we have our students take in fall, winter, and spring. Unfortunately, educators too often end up in service to the assessment. When we limit ourselves to only one way of assessing student learning, we become dependent on the tools we use.

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