TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 15, 2015

The popular “Space Race” allows your group to be split into two teams that compete head to head for the quickest answers. Also Unplag is launching a survey to create a better teacher lead LMS (assignment management system, actually). It is a game changer for many teachers in primary classrooms.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

With the Planner, teachers can design curriculum for a class and easily modify pathways for groups or individual students. It’s a curriculum tool designed specifically to offer teachers the flexibility they need to meet the needs of 21st century students. Kiddom's Planner.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 22, 2013

To volunteer, please 1) join the volunteer group at the website ( [link] ) and 2) go to [link] to sign up for specific time slots. If you are familiar with Blackboard Collaborate, or are willing to take the training to become so ( [link] ), we are now calling for volunteers to sign up to help in time slots. Please join us!

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

Whether educators need to learn how to use edtech tools, analyze student data or implement Common Core standards, online PD can offer educators support when and where they need it. To streamline access, find out if teachers can log into PD through your LMS.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 28, 2019

How can we fairly tell if a group of students has met the standards set by the teacher, school’s governing board, and the government? For example, a teacher shows a group of students a few math concepts, examples and practices are given, and the teacher feels like the students have a good understanding of the concepts covered.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Today’s LMS is a bit of an upgrade, with new features and design elements frequently drawn from the social networking sites students love so much. For most, the LMS is rarely so different. Arnillas said this advanced LMS functionality allows teachers to link individual questions—or groups of questions—to a specific learning objective.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

This device can be applied across a variety of activities, from literacy groups to ELL lessons. When combined with ClassLink Roster Server, OneSync allows schools to provision login accounts into O365 and Google and create groups in Microsoft Teams and Google Classroom.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Results correspond to Common Core State Standards and specific state standards. The ASSIST Education platform, along with the relationship with Scantron, is able to provide reports to administration for individual students, school groups, and their entire district. ASSIST works on any computer or device with Internet access.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Blackboard Ally is an accessibility solution that helps make digital class content in a learning management system (LMS) more accessible for all learners. Ally is designed to integrate with a school district’s existing LMS and automatically runs class materials through an accessibility checklist that looks for common accessibility issues.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2016

And examples of district-wide technology platforms include Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Blackboard and Scholastic. In an all-digital world, and especially with newer skills-based standards such as Common Core, there is greater leeway for teachers to deviate from what is prescribed in textbooks and lesson plans.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

“ ESSA Would Handcuff a Trump Education Secretary on Common Core And More,” says Education Week , even though ditching Common Core was one of Trump’s campaign promises. More on the future of Common Core from NPR. Inside Higher Ed has more on the latter. ” Education in the Courts. .”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. ” Via The Intercept : “Conservative Provocateur James O’Keefe ’s Group Hit With Restraining Order, Blocking Latest Sting.” She’s an investor in a company that targets that group.) 2 Post at Ed. More in the research section below.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

“Anti- Common Core Groups Unhappy About Trump Ed Secretary Pick Betsy DeVos ,” says the Sunshine State News. Via The Columbia Dispatch : “Group once led by Trump education secretary nominee owes $5.3 ” Edutechnica is giving away data about LMS usage for Australia, Canada, and the UK.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “‘ Common Core ’ no more: New York moves to adopt revised standards with new name.” ” The center, as the name suggests, does legal work for civil rights and low-income groups. Absorb Software has raised $59 million from Silversmith Capital Partners to build an LMS.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. ” I look forward to the opinion pieces on how Workplace by Facebook will replace the LMS. Education Politics. ” Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

DeVry Education Group got a new CEO." In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. .” Dale Dougherty returned as the CEO of Maker Media, following layoffs there.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Instructure, for example, undertook its fifth annual security audit this year to identify possible vulnerabilities in its LMS Canvas. It will be able to ascertain which student did what during “group work.” It will improve student health. It will keep students on track for graduation.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 Via Education Next : “The Politics of the Common Core Assessments.” Via Education Week : “Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

But other times, the scenes that were captured were taken out of context or these videos were purposefully weaponized (by conservative groups, for example, who encourage students to film their professors’ lectures and submit their names to “watch lists”). Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. Now educators can personalize their courses, apparently, which is something no one has been able to do until “adaptive technology” integrated with the LMS. ” Oregon students will soon be sitting more standardized tests – wheee!

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“ Apollo Education Group , the parent company of the University of Phoenix and Western International University , announced Thursday that it would eliminate the use of mandatory arbitration clauses in students’ enrollment agreements,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .” The Indian gaming company has raised $1.2

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Via the San Jose Mercury News : “A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling for a state audit of a profitable but low-performing network of online charter schools following this newspaper’s investigation of K12 Inc., PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. Remember Richard McKenzie?

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. Elsewhere in for-profit higher ed: “ Veterans Groups Seek a Crackdown on Deceptive Colleges,” The New York Times reports.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via The Washington Post : “ School offers ‘incentives’ to get kids to take Common Core standardized test.” The resulting nonprofit college group will be secular.” Offering “modules” in an LMS is, apparently, newsworthy. Robots hate the Common Core.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

Testing, Testing… Common Core test scores released and California ’s scores were up a little bit, Connecticut ’s were up a little bit more, and Maryland ’s were better in math. ” Edutechnica has new data on LMS trends , including installations and migrations. Became A Pop Culture Phenomenon.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Ohio Governor John Kasich , a Republican, on Wednesday signed into law legislation – opposed by faculty groups – to lift the state’s ban on guns at colleges and universities. ” Via KJZZ : “ Arizona Board Of Education Replaces Common Core State Standards.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” Through an LMS. Sounds super fun.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Arizona Board of Regents probably violated First Amendment rights of state’s student association when it stopped collecting fees for the group, U.S. Via Education Week : “New Test Pitched As Alternative to Common Core-Focused High School Exams.” appeals court rules.”

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