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Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

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Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Lots of great resources and web apps to use with Chromebooks!

Educational Technology Guy

research projects Google Docs has built in search - do research as you work: In Google Docs, there is a research pane where you can do a Google search directly from Google Docs collaboration - Google Apps is all about collaboration. Google Apps and Chromebooks Web App Recommendations - a whole lot!

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20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom

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Google Classroom Question Tool. Inside Google Classroom, you have the option to create a questions and share that with students. Formative is a free online assessment tool that is very robust. FREE and integrates with Google Classroom!). Google Forms. Google Forms. InsertLearning. Poll Everywhere.

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5 Traps That Will Kill Online Learning (and Strategies to Avoid Them)

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Christopher Pommering, founder of Learnlife , a global network dedicated to fostering lifelong learning practices, says many of the 1,000 school leaders across the 60 countries in its network report that both teachers and students are burning out from trying to conduct the traditional school day in an online environment. “We

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Chromebooks dominate K-12 purchases

eSchool News

K-12 education market, with the devices now making up 51 percent of sales for the first time, according to a new report from Futuresource Consulting. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft can halt the momentum Google has developed in the U.S. 6 reasons Chromebooks are the device of the moment ].

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Inside Tips for Successfully Implementing Online Assessments

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Whether schools are 1:1 or still relying on computer carts, the move to online assessments creates new needs from devices to professional development to data privacy policies. Have an instructional framework centered around curriculum design before talking about assessment. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Global K-12 Market for Personal PCs to Contract in 2016, Experts Project

Marketplace K-12

A decline in personal computer sales in the worldwide K-12 education market may be linked to faltering economies in other countries, particularly Latin America, a new report finds. market, according to a report from Futuresource Consulting, a London-based market research firm. Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds.

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