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Advancing Mobile Phones as Learning Devices

A Principal's Reflections

I cannot begin to explain all of the battles with students and parents that my administrative team and I had to deal with because of the established policy. For the most part they used a program called Poll Everywhere to check for understanding, review prior learning, and informally assess. resource.

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New Year, New Adventures

A Principal's Reflections

Expansion of Mobile Learning Devices: Since I played a prominent role in our current cell phone banning policy isn''t it ironic that I am now the one trying to develop innovative ways to integrate them into instruction? Initially I would like to see some pilot classes begin to use Poll Everywhere to increase student engagement.

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20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom

Shake Up Learning

Poll Everywhere. Poll Everywhere is a live audience polling tool that integrates into your presentation. Freemium, free accounts are limited to 25 responses per poll.). See: Copyright Policy. Teachers create and print specially coded cards that students hold up in class as their response.

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Meeting the Needs of Your Students: UDL

WJU EdTech

” There are also guides for choosing media/technology, improving institutional policies, planning your course, and teaching approaches. Allow students to engage with the instructor and with each other in a variety of ways ( Poll Everywhere , Socrative, student-lead discussions, Twitter, hands-on projects, etc.).

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Testing Giving You The Blues? Get Creative with EdTech Formative Assessments

MSEDTechie

Even though in recent news we have heard some changes introduced by President Obama, on the No Child Left Behind policies. Using Quick tools like Plickers , Google Forms, Padlet , Poll Everywhere can quickly allow you access to data in a quick and fun way, sometimes so fun, students have no idea they are being assessed.

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Has Your School Reached an Edtech Plateau? Here’s the Key to Moving the Needle

Edsurge

For example, create a live word cloud with AnswerGarden or Poll Everywhere in response to a school-wide question to help focus the discussion. Always follow the district social media policies, but consider starting a department or team Instagram account.

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Distraction 2 Reaction: BYOT (BYOD) Success!

EdTechSandyK

Instructional time can be lost while figuring out how to get multiple types of devices connected to the same resource Online testing not compatible with all devices (ex: iPad) Eanes ISD will post a copy of their BYOT policies to their website along with the presentation link. Be sure to address this in your policy.

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