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Assessing the effectiveness of cloud-based web filters for K-12 schools

Hapara

Today’s students are learning on computers, tablets and mobile-devices and using the internet for class activities, research, assessments, communication and collaboration. Use the following questions to assess the effectiveness of the web filter you currently have or are considering.

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GradeCam: The Teacher’s Friend for Assessment

The CoolCatTeacher

It will also help you with both formative and summative assessments, and it will enter your grades into any electronic grade book directly from GradeCam. Simple Assessments of All Kinds. First, let’s look at the ways you can use GradeCam for assessments. Setting up assessments is fast and easy. Make assessment simple.

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The @ASCD Arias Series-Teaching With Tablets

The Web20Classroom

Today we take a look at Teaching With Tablets. It seems like more and more classrooms, schools and districts are embracing and utilizing tablets for learning. Tablets are full of possibilities. What to learn more about Teaching With Tablets or any of the other ASCD Arias series? ASCD Arias Tablets' Sound like fun?

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Research shows lower test scores for fourth graders who use tablets in schools

The Hechinger Report

A Reboot Foundation report finds a negative tie between the use of tablets in school and fourth-grade reading scores. For younger school children, the study found a negative tie between the use of tablets in school and fourth-grade reading scores. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Top Tips for Fast Formative Assessment that Works

The CoolCatTeacher

That’s because, formative assessment is in my toolkit and I’m empowered to poll the whole class with a click. Formative assessment is here. Different from summative assessment, the goal of formative assessment is to know what they know as knowledge is forming in their minds. Easy Grading with Gradecam.

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Awareness, Assessment, and Access: Improving Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

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. But lending the tablets is only part of the access puzzle.

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Making the case for paperless schools

Neo LMS

to teaching, learning, and assessment processes – comes in with a lot of paperwork. Note-taking: paper-based vs. tablet-based vs. typing? Tablet papers are great tools that can help schools adopt a paperless policy. Read more: How to manage assessments in the blended classroom. So why don’t we give it a go?

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