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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Online Assessment. Assessment must respect learners, provide actionable feedback, and motivate. Sometimes this feels like a Herculean task, but there are best practices to help all of us get better at assessment. Look at this course.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators need to rest and recover this summer. But the reality is also that we’re going to have to prepare for a fall that – whatever it looks like – will include an online learning component. So many of us are exhausted.

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ExamTime - free online learning tools

Educational Technology Guy

You can also create groups to share and discuss resources and topics. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. examtime free resources for students online assessment' Follow me on Twitter and Google+. examtime free resources for students online assessment'

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100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

The easy tool educators are using every day From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Tip: Many of the best conversations on this topic happen on Google Plus or Twitter with the #gafe hashtag. Assessment. Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments. Blog Posts.

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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

For the same reasons that many low-income students struggled to learn remotely during the pandemic, it was also hard, if not impossible, for students to take an online assessment of their progress. Fordham Institute, a think tank, posted on Twitter. “It’s Even before the pandemic, reading achievement was in a slump.

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

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - Great, GREAT Keynotes - MiniCon - ISTE Unplugged! - Striving for Failure?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This online conference will be free to attend, and you can follow the conversations by using the hashtag #learning14. The call for volunteers is now open - please join the group and sign up here. View the session live on our YouTube channel, and join the Twitter conversation using the hashtag #appyhour. Regsiter here.

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