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How to Prepare Students for PARCC/SBACC Tests

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I polled my PLN to find specific tech areas students needed help with in preparing for the Assessments. Pay attention to these and your students will be much more prepared for this Spring’s Common Core assessments: Keyboarding. Common Core requires this. It boils down to five tech areas.

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State Testing Disruptions Likely Produced Dips and Gains in Student Scores, Study Says

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The disruptions in online assessments that roiled Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota in the spring of 2015 appear to have had both negative and positive effects on individual students’ test scores, according to a new analysis.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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The Flat Panel also features an upgradable built-in Android Module and wireless AVer document camera integration. Gizmos help prepare students for rigorous new standards and online assessments. Featuring a Windows PC, 13MP document camera, and 21-inch touchscreen with wireless HD mirroring functionality in a mobile podium.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. Like the DBQs, lessons revolve around a central historical question and sets of prima ry documents to engage learners with varied reading skills. and world history events.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

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