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3 Strategies for Personalizing Feedback Online

Catlin Tucker

Students also reported being more motivated by audio and video feedback because it was clear and personalized (Voelkel & Mello, 2014; Henderson & Phillips, 2015). Interestingly, teachers also reported higher levels of engagement when giving video and audio feedback. 2 Video Comments with Screencastify.

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

Ask a Tech Teacher

Look at what Harvey Silver says in his book, Compare and Contrast : By compiling the available research on effective instruction, Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock found that strategies that engage students in comparative thinking had the greatest effect on student achievement, leading to an average percentile gain of 45 points.

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Blended Learning: Building a Playlist

Catlin Tucker

The playlist model presents a strategy teachers can use to structure learning experiences that are more personalized to the needs of specific learners, provide students with more agency, and frees the teacher to spend time connecting with and coaching learners as they progress through the playlist. Not necessarily.

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How Powerful Use of Technology Can Increase Student Engagement

Digital Promise

Rather than taking a traditional multiple choice test at the end of their unit on weather, sixth grade students at Gilbert Middle School in South Carolina created their own live weather reports—complete with green screens and fake snow. As powerful use of technology increased, student engagement grew as well.

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The Case for PDFs in Class Revisited

Ask a Tech Teacher

Let me know if this fits your experiences: The biggest reason teachers report for NOT liking internet-based cloud accounts has nothing to do with money, security, or privacy. Parents don’t have to buy a separate tool, install software, enroll on a website, register with a username and password, or learn a new webtool.

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All the Upgrades and Updates From Apple, Google and More at ISTE 2018

Edsurge

Software Updates Google is reorganizing its Classroom platform to make it easier to sort materials by topic. McGraw-Hill introduces a new English language arts software for grades 2-7 called Redbird Language Arts & Writing. As ever, it was a popular time for product announcements. What, too soon?)

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PROOF POINTS: Free, no frills programs lead the class in new federal study of remote learning

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. Much of the educational software was actually used inside school buildings, not only at home.

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