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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Student Engagement I’m in social media groups where frustrated teachers recently commented that their grade books looked like “Swiss Cheese” and that many students were just missing during online learning sessions. Project-Based Learning Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a topic we often discuss on my podcast.

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?Online Courses Shouldn’t Use Remote Proctoring Tools. Here’s Why.

Edsurge

Since the early days of online instruction, the response of many new instructors has been to figure out how to transfer elements of their face-to-face class into the online format. In response, education technology companies have been quick to create products that attempt to replicate in-person teaching.

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Spotting Trends and Delivering Data to Connect Edtech Tools With Educator Needs

Edsurge

Data’s influence on modern education is immense; it drives policies, impacts funding—it even affects decisions about which tools and services edtech companies create for educators. Below, Rambo shares her thoughts on education innovation, including her newest tool for edtech companies. What’s fueling innovation in schools right now?

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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S. A student reading a book in a first grade classroom. For the same reasons that many low-income students struggled to learn remotely during the pandemic, it was also hard, if not impossible, for students to take an online assessment of their progress.

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Fighting Apathy, Neglect and Racism to Give Left-Behind Learners a Chance

Edsurge

This started with a pre-test, many of which are available via online programs with one huge caveat: assigning a generic pre-test is a waste of time. Using USATestprep, an online assessment tool, I built diagnostics from scratch to shift the focus from what students didn’t know to what they did.

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Funding Edtech with the E-Rate Program and Grants

edWeb.net

And with online assessments now being required in many states, reliable broadband access is also essential so that students’ knowledge and skills are accurately represented, and technology is not a barrier to achievement and its documentation. About the Host.

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8 Must-See Hidden Gems from ISTE 2018

techlearning

Want to speed up fluency assessments and free up time for instruction? This early literacy tool created by NWEA allows for whole-class, online assessment of oral reading fluency and other key skills thanks to speech recognition and audio recording software. Try MAP Reading Fluency. Teachers can also track how students are doing.