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14 Education Advancements in a Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

Classrooms now are more likely to store student files in the cloud (OneDrive or Google Drive for example) than on school servers allowing students to access their work from school and home. 2017 lessons were enriched with teacher-curated resources shared through intuitive programs like Edmodo, Google Drive, and PearDeck.

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

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But the pair also didn’t want to reduce collaboration online to a dry, empty Google Doc, either. As one educator writes about their experience with the tool, there are no individual user profiles, no way to collect likes and no followers — basically, no emphasis on comparison. A softer, more nuanced form of gamification is on the rise.

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Texthelp Launches WriQ to Automate and Standardize Writing Assessment

eSchool News

It concludes that research-based tools that encourage engagement through real-time feedback and gamification, as well as provide student autonomy, will likely have the best impact on both student outcomes and teacher workloads. “WriQ, has been designed with those needs in mind. .”

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Bryan gives you a head to head comparison of all of the popular interactive response systems that work on your classroom''s mobile devices. Google Forms - The Swiss Army Knife of Google Apps by Jennifer Guevara Baselice Collecting information is something we do on a daily basis. A massive online game?

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

NeverEndingSearch

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. That was certainly the case in our experience. What’s the evidence? What do other sources say?