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Formative Assessments Are Easier Than You Think!

The Web20Classroom

Now, as 1:1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) are taking over our schools, its becoming even easier to formatively assess what our students know and for our students to leave feedback as to what they need. So you don''t even have to be a 1:1 classroom or BYOD. The students can respond via text message, website or even Twitter.

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Teaching Gen Text authors explain why cell phones should go to school

The Innovative Educator

You can read the entire piece at BYOD Goes to School, Here is what we said during our interview with the author of the article. She has taught students how to record podcasts, use Twitter and post photos to Flickr with their phones. “My BYOD / BYOT Cell phones in Education' It was a homework assignment I didn’t have to assign.

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Embracing Formative Assessments This School Year

The Web20Classroom

Now, as 1:1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) are taking over our schools, it's becoming even easier to formatively assess what our students know and for our students to leave feedback as to what they need because of this ready access to technology. So you don't even have to be a 1:1 classroom or BYOD. All they need is the address. (So

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5 Ways Teachers Can Encourage Deeper Learning With Personal Devices

Edsurge

Here are 5 ways to get to curate that practice by making your class a BYOD zone. Websites such as Poll Everywhere allow teachers to pose questions to students during presentations, demonstrations or lectures and students can respond with immediate responses displayed on a projector.

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Summer 2017 Learning Series-Embracing Formative Assessment

The Web20Classroom

These posts will take us through Twitter chats and how you can participate in real time or whenever you want. So you don't even have to be a 1:1 classroom or BYOD. Poll Everywhere - This is another one of my favorites, simply because of the variety of uses and methods of submitting responses.

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Forging Ahead With Change

A Principal's Reflections

It is not uncommon now for classes to be Skyping with students in other countries, using Twitter as a learning tool, constructing QR codes for artwork, blogging, or creating multimedia projects using a variety of interactive web tools that are blocked in many schools across the country.