The Electric Educator

MARCH 2, 2016

I am fortunate to be able to work with thousands of educators at hundreds of schools each year. My first project of 2016 was to help Kingsley elementary school , a small school in northern Michigan, build an elementary book report machine. Writing reflectively is a key component of the common core standards ( example ).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

and claims to explain how to teach the tragedy of the star-crossed lovers in a fun-filled way while hitting almost 50 Common Core standards in five weeks. A curriculum expert who reviewed the pedagogy explained to me that the unit was “weak” and does not meet Common Core standards as the creator claimed.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast A recent edLeader Panel, “ Utah Spotlight: A ‘State’ of Alignment ,” featured experts that included Rick Gaisford, Education Specialist, Education Technology and the SETDA Chair Elect, Utah State Board of Education; Melanie Durfee, Ph.D.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How many times have you experienced teachers who based report card grades on how well students complete classwork, homework, and quizzes? For example, a book report may require a certain number of written (or typed) pages or paragraphs rather than evidence that the student drew conclusions and summarized knowledge. Standards Planner.

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Saving Socrates

APRIL 24, 2014

The past week I have been spending a lot of time revamping Magen David''s Skills assessment rubrics to align them to the Common Core. Because Magen David is a regents school, we need to align our curriculum to the common core and this is a fundamental part of the process. This was no easy task.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. Students had to document their learning process as they added their ideas and built a device. Not every attempt at project-based learning worked.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

. Imagine hundreds of thousands of parents protesting the ways in which schools educate their children. Department of Education warned 11 states that their opt-out rates exceeded five percent. If they are dissatisfied with what they see happening in public education, they may not want to exit the system, or even be able to.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

51Talk is China’s leading online English education platform. The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. Can you tell us about your education background? I watched training videos, sampled lesson clips, and read every document sent to me by 51Talk trainers.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

over glitches in implementing the test, the state department of education announced this week. Pearson, a global education company that counts assessments as less than 10 percent of its total revenues , will score about 1.8 The contract covers only scoring and reporting Part I for grades 3-8 and Part I and Part II for high school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based learning. In a nutshell, here’s some of what the Mainers have been saying: Stop shoving new ways of education down our throats. Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Teachers can link data to Common Core State Standards or integrate their own custom standards to report on. Toolbox: Otus functions as an open, interoperable educational ecosystem allowing teachers to integrate and quickly access the third party apps and content that they use everyday in their classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

Because their elementary school teachers do too, says Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), a policy institute that studies what America can learn from the world’s best-performing education systems. Related: Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Map created by Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report. But thanks to a data collection effort by an expert in adult education at a nonprofit research organization in New York, Center for an Urban Future, we now have evidence of a sharp decline in new high school equivalency degrees in almost every state between 2012 and 2016.

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The Electric Educator

MARCH 16, 2018

Book report generator - Writing reflectively is a key component of the common core standards. A book report is a tremendous way to help students practice reflective, informational writing, and to also encourage them to identify elements of literature such as genre, plot, and setting.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Teachers can link data to Common Core State Standards or integrate their own custom standards to report on. Toolbox: Otus functions as an open, interoperable educational ecosystem allowing teachers to integrate and quickly access the third party apps and content that they use everyday in their classroom.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Have documentation of your policy but also announce flexibility in your policy based on AI developments. Your usual teacher extensions that have helped you see plagiarism or cheating on Google docs are still helpful pieces to the puzzle (like the Docs extension Draftback or checking a document’s edit history).

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techlearning

APRIL 20, 2018

Book report generator - Writing reflectively is a key component of the common core standards. A book report is a tremendous way to help students practice reflective, informational writing, and to also encourage them to identify elements of literature such as genre, plot, and setting.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 20, 2016

Chronicle is an amazing iPad app that helps educators harness and organize their best teaching methodologies. The ability to capture multiple pics, videos, and audio recordings within a note enables teachers to easily provide rich feedback, document student growth, share student achievements, and intervene for student needs.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Teachers can link data to Common Core State Standards or integrate their own custom standards to report on. Toolbox: Otus functions as an open, interoperable educational ecosystem allowing teachers to integrate and quickly access the third party apps and content that they use everyday in their classroom.

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Khan Academy Differentiated Instruction Common Core Mobile Learning 28

Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Teachers can link data to Common Core State Standards or integrate their own custom standards to report on. Toolbox: Otus functions as an open, interoperable educational ecosystem allowing teachers to integrate and quickly access the third party apps and content that they use everyday in their classroom.

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Khan Academy Differentiated Instruction Common Core Mobile Learning 28

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 25, 2015

by Grant Wiggins , Authentic Education. In this follow-up post we look more closely at a range of data from two successful schools and one school identified in the Cuomo Report on Failing Schools. Here are its survey and quality report data: Overall Survey Data (and comparative graduation data). A Struggling High School.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 4, 2016

Chronicle is an amazing iPad app that helps educators harness and organize their best teaching methodologies. The ability to capture multiple pics, videos, and audio recordings within a note enables teachers to easily provide rich feedback, document student growth, share student achievements, and intervene for student needs.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Teachers can link data to Common Core State Standards or integrate their own custom standards to report on. Toolbox: Otus functions as an open, interoperable educational ecosystem allowing teachers to integrate and quickly access the third party apps and content that they use everyday in their classroom.

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Khan Academy Differentiated Instruction Common Core Mobile Learning 28

Technology Tidbits

JULY 19, 2019

Teachers can link data to Common Core State Standards or integrate their own custom standards to report on. Toolbox: Otus functions as an open, interoperable educational ecosystem allowing teachers to integrate and quickly access the third party apps and content that they use everyday in their classroom.

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Khan Academy Differentiated Instruction Common Core Mobile Learning 28

Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 25, 2016

Chronicle is an amazing iPad app that helps educators harness and organize their best teaching methodologies. The ability to capture multiple pics, videos, and audio recordings within a note enables teachers to easily provide rich feedback, document student growth, share student achievements, and intervene for student needs.

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Common Core iPad Conference System 28

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

The trend toward dismantling traditional remedial education is unambiguous. That decline, recently documented in a survey of math and statistics departments by the Conference Board for Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), is great news for students. Higher Education. million to around 780,000. Related: U.S. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Tech Helpful

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

He said his background was in sales when he joined the Instructure/Canvas team and he wished he had access to this post when he started because he felt it would have helped him understand what Canvas can do for educators better. It isn't just educators in this struggle. Discussions. What are Outcomes ?

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Chronicle is an amazing iPad app that helps educators harness and organize their best teaching methodologies. The ability to capture multiple pics, videos, and audio recordings within a note enables teachers to easily provide rich feedback, document student growth, share student achievements, and intervene for student needs.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 7, 2015

Chronicle is an amazing iPad app that helps educators harness and organize their best teaching methodologies. The ability to capture multiple pics, videos, and audio recordings within a note enables teachers to easily provide rich feedback, document student growth, share student achievements, and intervene for student needs.

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Common Core iPad Assessment Conference 28

Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Teachers can link data to Common Core State Standards or integrate their own custom standards to report on. Toolbox: Otus functions as an open, interoperable educational ecosystem allowing teachers to integrate and quickly access the third party apps and content that they use everyday in their classroom.

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Khan Academy Differentiated Instruction Common Core Mobility 28

Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Chronicle is an amazing iPad app that helps educators harness and organize their best teaching methodologies. The ability to capture multiple pics, videos, and audio recordings within a note enables teachers to easily provide rich feedback, document student growth, share student achievements, and intervene for student needs.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Chronicle is an amazing iPad app that helps educators harness and organize their best teaching methodologies. The ability to capture multiple pics, videos, and audio recordings within a note enables teachers to easily provide rich feedback, document student growth, share student achievements, and intervene for student needs.

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Common Core iPad Conference Assessment 28

Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 27, 2015

Chronicle is an amazing iPad app that helps educators harness and organize their best teaching methodologies. The ability to capture multiple pics, videos, and audio recordings within a note enables teachers to easily provide rich feedback, document student growth, share student achievements, and intervene for student needs.

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Common Core iPad Assessment Conference 28

Technology Tidbits

JULY 24, 2018

Teachers can link data to Common Core State Standards or integrate their own custom standards to report on. Toolbox: Otus functions as an open, interoperable educational ecosystem allowing teachers to integrate and quickly access the third party apps and content that they use everyday in their classroom.

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Khan Academy Differentiated Instruction Common Core Mobile Learning 28

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 30, 2016

Reuters also cites a confidential PowerPoint presentation by the College Board that says the testing group had documented widespread security woes in June of 2013, after nixing an SAT exam slated to be given in South Korea. Nearly all of those excluded worked for test-prep companies, as my colleague Catherine Gewertz reported.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What does assessment look like in 21st Century education? With the rise of the Common Core and the PARCC tests, there is no question that we are living in an era of accountability. It is an effective application with both general education students and special education students and can be used in a variety of content areas.

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