Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I have put together a list of the BEST and most popular Shake Up Learning blog posts and podcast episodes from 2021. This list helps me decide what content to create and how to best help teachers in 2022. The Top 20 Posts of 2021. 27 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom. Y’all rock!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Welcome to a series of posts dedicated to 21st skills and assessment. FETC – I am one of the official bloggers for an amazing educational conference early next year. I will be bringing you some of the biggest news in education this January in Miami… along with reasons to attend in the next couple months.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

These are just the top apps in the Apple App Store. This doesn’t include Google Chrome independent extensions like Quillbot , described in its overview as a “Grammar Checker, Paraphrasing Tool & Summarizer.” If they see AI as not only a tool with transparency but as a source, it changes how AI fits into school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2016

Not quite sure how you're going to run formative assessment in your classroom, or lead professional development workshops? To help you out this new school year, EdSurge has been compiling 52 stories from educators in each of the 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia over the course of the past year. The Stories.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 27, 2020

Building a PBL Environment: 5 Tools to Support Project Based Learning and the Future of Work. There are many things that educators are called upon to teach that aren’t in the curriculum. In recent years digital citizenships skills have been added to that list as schools address safe and healthy online behavior.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Among the teachers I know who are always looking for ways to save their limited pennies, Google Forms is a run-away favorite. Google Forms integrates well with Google Apps for Education, Google Classroom and many LMSs such as Blackboard. Google Forms is simple to use. This will populate as people return the form.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 19, 2016

Because I teach graduate classes for educators, I talk to lots of teachers all over the country. It’s become clear to me that for most of them, adding technology to their lessons means layering more work on top of their already overburdened lesson plans. learn tech tools only to discover it’s not what they need.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2023

PDF editors are valuable tools in schools that allow students with different platforms–Google Apps, MS Office, and others–to make annotations, add comments, edit content (with some restrictions), and collaborate. No surprise that as useful as PDFs are, there are many options. You can check it out here.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Walk in when you’re starving without a list and you’ll likely pick the items with the most attractive packaging, a suggestion from your seemingly healthy friend who only eats foods that start with the letter ‘P’, items that you’ve seen in commercials, or those that simply happen to be at eye-level.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 25, 2018

I have put together a list of the BEST and most popular Shake Up Learning blog posts from 2018. You have helped me learn and grow as an educator and blogger. This list helps me decide what content to create and how to best help teachers in 2019. The form is also embedded at the bottom of this post.).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2015

One thing we can all agree on is that there are tons of free tech tools available that enrich learning. I belong to several Tech Teacher forums, FB groups, G+ Communities, and every day I find more great tools I can’t wait to use in my classroom. Here are my top five: Newsela. Newsela is free and add-free.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2017

Weston Kieschnick is a Senior Fellow at the International Center for Leadership in Education. His thought leadership around blended pedagogy has been published in Education Week, Ed-Tech Magazine, and The Learning Transformation: A Guide to Blended Learning for Administrators. Editor’s note, it looks like the new list has it at.60

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

Since then, I’ve built award-winning educational CD-ROMs, led the development of formative assessment, curriculum management, and student data systems like Schoolnet and Powerschool, and most recently, managed strategy for Pearson’s $6 billion global product portfolio as its chief product strategy officer.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Plus, we've also curated a list of some of the best streaming platforms you can use to find movies, TV episodes, documentaries, and other videos that might be great for your classroom. What are the best video streaming services for schools? How does copyright law apply to schools and classrooms?

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Google Apps and Chromebooks App Recommendations and Substitutions Here is a list of Google Apps and Web Apps to use. They are listed by category with some explanations. pli=1 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pDsGwn7_Z38AYrvOtqqHbX_osrxxKIUpV1kRDiPL7bc/edit#heading=h.4c6x4p5qplh7

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

The investment company Weld North Holdings LLC today announced its acquisition of Performance Matters, a student assessment and data analytics company that it will merge with Truenorthlogic, a K-12 ed-tech business focused on continuous educator improvement. 5000 list last year. million were reported to Inc.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. We''re so excited to have such a great list of offerings for you, so please remember to share with your colleagues!

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techlearning

MAY 1, 2018

There are a multitude of ways for students to improve their writing , including many technology tools that come from Google or that work with G Suite. With these technology tools, the writing process can be improved at all stages from planning to writing to self editing to peer editing to assessment to revising to publishing.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. I especially appreciated the following quote, “On his blog, Gorman shares what he has learned with a focus on how tech enables project-based learning.” Quick Notes.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

This is why we've created the EdTech Eleven: our monthly list of noteworthy tools generating buzz in the edtech world. While these aren't recommendations or ratings (you have to check out our Top Picks for that), what you'll find on the EdTech Eleven is a quick and current list of trending tools you might want to check out.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. Be on the look out for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. Past Series Articles.

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Fractus Learning

JULY 23, 2015

For that matter, if you’re also the designated ed tech “go-to person,” there are a LOT of tasks for you (and the IT team) to consider. It’s hard to envision all the aspects of tech that you might need to worry about, and if you or the team miss something, it only creates more heartburn and wasted time later. Add apps to your tablets.

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techieMusings

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

After only a couple months teaching in an online environment, I would say that one of my top recommendations is to make sure that you build in opportunities for students to verbally chat things out. I talked about the main tech tools that I am relying on in teaching Online AP Calculus in this post.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I’ve heard that mantra during my whole career as an educator, and even as a classroom teacher we have been cautioned not to try to change too much too fast. State education officials called this portal “Home Base.” State education officials called this portal “Home Base.” In school leadership, they tell you the same thing.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. Its portable design enables it to be used comfortably by younger children and in more environments.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. Be on the lookout for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. Introduction to SAMR.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. The program includes in-classroom professional development sessions.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

I started my Truth For Teachers podcast in January 2015, and since then, I’ve heard from dozens of educators who are now hooked on the format and are anxious to find other great education podcasts to follow. Here are some of the best K-12 education podcasts that I’ve found. That makes me so happy!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2016

I am constantly on the hunt for good tech reading tools. I’ve seen great websites and online tools ruined by objectionable ads. Are students engaged in the activity, motivated to use the web tool? Does the web tool differentiate for types of students and their unique needs? Is the tool challenging ?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2016

Those geeky tech tools that we adults like to avoid are taking over the classroom. They’re ready for tech, wondering what’s taking us so long to adopt the tools they can’t get enough of at home. This year, make tech your everyday china. vocabulary decoding tools. vocabulary decoding tools. journaling.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

It makes sense that when Jacqui and I were talking about popular tech tools and ways to bring tech into the k-12 math class, I had a lot to share and get excited about and jumped at the opportunity to write this post. Math teachers: This is for you.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 26, 2022

When our district began its journey into competency-based education (CBE), one of the significant early steps was the publication of our Profile of a Graduate (PoG) in 2017. The Profile was crucial in developing our current Strategic Leadership Plan for 2018-2022, where Personalized Learning is the top strand.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 6, 2018

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: The Productivity Roundtable talks about time-saving tech tips and tricks for digital organization for teachers. So, I’ve gathered a group of educators to create a Productivity Roundtable. How do you keep track of and organize the teaching ideas and resources you find online? .

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 6, 2018

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: The Productivity Roundtable talks about time-saving tech tips and tricks for digital organization for teachers. So, I’ve gathered a group of educators to create a Productivity Roundtable. How do you keep track of and organize the teaching ideas and resources you find online? .

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JULY 11, 2021

Since our switch from in-person to virtual and from copies to Chromebooks last year, these 7 digital tools have enabled me to facilitate accommodations , empower student engagement , and streamline assessment. How I use digital tools in my lesson procedures. Class Dojo.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 13, 2017

Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Formative Assessment 2. Digital Drama and Confrontations At the top of the hot list for the second time is post highlighting a handy infographic that can be posted in your classroom. Rounding out the top is a post that makes it here for the first time.

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