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How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers

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Data Analytics Tools Adding data analytics tools allows students to solve problems using real data. Things like calculators, spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, and other data analytics software are all useful in getting learners to test techniques like hypotheses and regression analysis and make predictions.

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Four Ways You Can Use Data to Create a Personalized, Teacher-Driven PD Playbook

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Specifically, data can identify which teachers or grade levels are seeing success in specific skills and where extra support may be needed. While it can be hard to share out the myriad of little things teachers do that are so effective, we do have a tool that can help—data. What’s working? What teachers are seeing the most success?

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Take Student Collaboration to the Next Level – SULS0120

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Her students are collaborating, thinking critically, and using Google Sheets! However, she began to see that students were not producing thoughtful answers that supported their claims based on the data they analyzed. . This gave students a much larger picture to look at for analyzing the data and digging deeper into it. .

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Google Adds New Classroom Features. Use Them Responsibly.

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Google has added some new features to Classroom. Soon you’ll be able to keep your students focused by creating locked quizzes using Google Forms while in Classroom. It’s fairly easy for kids to “cheat” while asking them to complete online Google Forms and other types of digital assessments. Do a quick Google search.

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Technology’s Role in Putting Learning Science Research To Work

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It is well known that individuals construct new knowledge based on what they already know, that they learn differently from one another, and that they learn best when they are asked to perform appropriately challenging tasks. Supporting data gathering, analysis, and timely feedback.

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Teachers As Researchers: The Power of Mindset

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Step Three – Fund Your Knowledge Base. As isolated educators, we often forget how other people and places help inform our thinking and fund our knowledge base. Step Four – Gather Your Data. The next step involved gathering data from our classrooms to answer our questions.

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5 Favorite Activities to End the School Year

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Because this is digital, it can be emailed or uploaded to a location in the cloud such as Google Classroom or OneDrive. If you Google “cyberbully movies “, you will get a long list or find some here to get started. This is a free technology curriculum for Middle/High School and adults from Google. Class suggestions.