Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 3, 2012

Despite criticism, a traditional well-written multiple choice assessment can be a valid assessment tool ( I''m bracing for rebuttals ). The techniques outlined below can be used for formative and summative assessments. Students are assessed on a range of skills: comprehension, application, identification, etc.

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Assessment Edmodo Common Core BYOD 139

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 29, 2022

Students finish the program with an assessment of knowledge and certificates. It also includes a teacher’s guide, a series of lesson plans, and the Common Core standards addressed. Tools for financial literacy . Part of this is a large library of online interactive tools including videos and game-like activities.

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Common Core Mobility Digital Citizenship Groups 251

Waterford

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Investing in early childhood literacy programs –from PreK to second grade–is essential not only as a support for academic achievement but to provide students with the skills that will allow reading to be a lifelong tool for learning. Follow the link here to view Waterford PreK-2 correlations relevant to your state or district.

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Common Core Study Groups Meeting 130

Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

” 2010 was also the year that the Common Core Standards Initiative was enacted in response to numerous indicators of low student academic performance. “More tech-based monitoring and assessment tools will be incorporated into to the instructional mix.” ” 1:1 + Common Core = $$$$$.

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EdTech Common Core Chromebook iPad 176

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Many of us find students benefit greatly when the school employs curriculum-based assessments to measure progress. Because by teaching, assessing knowledge, tracking progress, and personalizing to student needs, we can determine if students are accomplishing what they must to complete the work of learning. What is Measuring Up?

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Meeting Dropout Assessment Case Study 203

Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

. “Interactive Middle School Math 7” This middle school math online textbook aligns to the Common Core State Standards. It also includes feedback for learners when they answer formative assessment questions. It includes interactive media, such as videos, and hands-on activities that are also interactive.

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How To Classroom Common Core Hapara 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 19, 2016

Even the ones who love it put in lots of extra time to do one or more of the following: learn tech tools and then teach their students. learn tech tools only to discover it’s not what they need. learn a tech tool they love only to have it either disappear or switch to a fee-based program. Nothing more; nothing less.

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Common Core Libraries Digital Citizenship eBook 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2017

Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach math skills that’s tied to many national and international standards (like Common Core). Teachers can add quizzes that assess student math knowledge by selecting the grade, the topic, one of the suggested Zap Zap Math games, and the duration. It can be downloaded from: IOS: goo.gl/VQhH7c.

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Learning Analytics Common Core Digital Citizenship Android 195

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

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.

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Online Assessments Assessment Elementary Common Core 41

The Web20Classroom

MAY 10, 2017

Students need opportunities for collaborating with peers, creating new ideas, and formatively assessing their knowledge, all taking place in the digital environment. Co-constructing anchor charts and a quick formative assessment during the active engagement provides educators timely information in which to inform instruction.

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Blended Learning Classroom LMS Groups 289

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

Summer PD: The Tech-infused Teacher is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-12 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. This 18-hour course provides participants with first-hand experience leveraging technology as a strategic tool when teaching academic topics.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Learning 152

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In brief, virtual math manipulatives are powerful tools for math teachers everywhere. Despite what some may think, virtual math manipulatives AREN’T videos — they are tools that allow students to interact and manipulate objects as they learn. Can virtual manipulatives be used as formative assessment tools?

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Common Core Twitter Assessment Libraries 90

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2017

When the Internet arrived, I — as did my colleagues — adopted it mostly for two reasons: 1) research — in place of the library, and 2) rote drills, such as supporting math practice. save teacher time because s/he can automate instruction where possible using tech tools. But that has changed.

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Blended Learning Khan Academy Learning Blackboard 176

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

A couple dozen of us–teachers, library media specialists, tech integrationists, and lab teachers–gathered virtually for three-five-week-classes that included: The Tech-infused Teacher. Often, I heard ‘Now I know how my students feel’–in reference to trying a tool that just wouldn’t do what it was supposed to.

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Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network Twitter Gamification 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

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Learning Chromebook Common Core iPad 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2015

Often, students reached outside their comfort zone to try tools they either had never used or thought they couldn’t use. When students were given the opportunity to pick their own favorite tool (one they used in their classes and wanted to share with Summer PD colleagues), they became the teacher. Failed and tried again.

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Digital Citizenship Gamification Common Core Flipped Classroom 150

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Dora Kastel may not be a traditional classroom teacher, but she and the team at the American Museum of Natural History have founded a number of professional learning programs and tools related to the Next Generation Science Standards. This was,” Elizalde explains, “the initial assessment for a framework called the Learning Record.

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Common Core Strategy Study Video 121

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. Activities library: Just as Kahoot!

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Google Android Video Accessibility 98

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Teachers can use Project Pals to organize work, monitor student progress, and assess projects in an interactive environment. Project Pals also provides a resource bank of Common Core-aligned lesson plans so teachers can drag and drop content to differentiate instruction. Common Core-aligned projects can be reused and shared.

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Common Core Differentiated Instruction Data Libraries 43

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When it comes to the most popular edtech tools among teachers, some apps, websites, and games have stood the test of time, while others tend to come and go with each new year. So, what are the most popular edtech tools this year? Here's a collection of some of the most-searched-for edtech tools among today's teachers.

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Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 66

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MARCH 9, 2015

In addition to its free on-demand digital library filled with popular books, Curriculet now allows students to read news articles with embedded assessments that develop literacy skills and build subject area knowledge. Known as "curriculets," these integrated checkpoints focus on specific skills and Common Core Standards.

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Common Core Smartphone Chromebook Data 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Geogebra – Get this free online math tools for graphing, geometry, 3D, and more! MIT Blossoms – All of the lessons in the MIT Blossoms library have been contributed by BLOSSOMS partners from around the world. Students find that math is a tool to explore the world around us. You will find all kinds of ideas and lessons.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 9, 2019

This years list seems to have a wide variety of educational tools w/ no set pattern seen in years past. As w/ any of my previous annual top lists, all tools listed in previous end of year posts will not be eligible for this years'. This is a great way for educators to assess learning and differentiate instruction.

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Differentiated Instruction Game-Based Learning Common Core Mobility 28

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification. Despite the immense amount of work involved, my colleagues and I fine-tuned our curriculum every year based on student skill gaps and results from formative assessments.

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Khan Academy Assessment Differentiated Instruction EdTech 60

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 1, 2015

If we’re truly reflective practitioners, we think a lot about what happens in our libraries. But there are richer measures and more clearer lenses through which we can share and through which we can learn answers to such questions as” What does learning look like in the library? What are the real impacts of our libraries?

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Libraries Report Wiki Assessment 40

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When it comes to the most popular edtech tools among teachers, some apps, websites, and games have stood the test of time, while others tend to come and go with each new year. So, what are the most popular edtech tools this year? Here's a collection of some of the most-searched-for edtech tools among today's teachers.

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 40

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When it comes to the most popular edtech tools among teachers, some apps, websites, and games have stood the test of time, while others tend to come and go with each new year. So, what are the most popular edtech tools this year? Here's a collection of some of the most-searched-for edtech tools among today's teachers.

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 40

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

To assess understanding of media or simply to ensure the assigned media was actually watched. To collaboratively judge/assess/add comments to an assignment or a contest with media products. Among the Common Core Standards addressing media understanding are: CC.11-12.R.I.7 To ask learners to reflect on their viewing.

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Analysis Video Khan Academy Tools 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Regardless of their tools and resources, great teachers can meet their students’ needs. When I was adding books to my classroom library last year I thought it would be a great idea to include some of her books so my third graders could fall in love with her storytelling the way I did. When I was a kid I loved Beverly Cleary’s books.

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Libraries Common Core Strategy Meeting 85

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

Now, it’s a tool for learning. 6.6 ) By 3rd grade, Common Core discusses the use of keyboarding to produce work, i.e., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 If you’re in a tech-infused school, it’s your obligation to teach them the right way to type so they can organically develop the tools to support learning.

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Common Core Classroom Digital Citizenship Examples 356

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core?

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 101

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Finding the right tool to match the verb can take a bit of research. It is also important to gauge students’ age and ability while aligning it with the district AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) and the each tool’s Terms of Use. Open Education Resources – Talk about big, this network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Many schools purchase 3D printers to keep up with trends, not realizing that they’re also valuable tools for student learning. Some thought it was a popcorn machine, and others thought it was a microwave, but once word got out, students flocked to the library to ask if they could use it.

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Learning Khan Academy Libraries Common Core 65

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 3, 2023

All of them, I’ve found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, offering inclusive solutions to the issue of tech tools–taking into account the perspectives of stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to ensure learning is organic and granular.

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Resources Digital Citizenship eBook Common Core 263

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects. Teaching Library Research Strategies. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 6: Introduction to Student Assessment. LA101x: Library Advocacy Unshushed. Common Core in Action II: Exploring Literacy Design Collaborative Tools.

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Coursera Course Moodle Common Core 40

Graphite Blog

AUGUST 16, 2016

Whether you're a veteran or a first-timer, planning how and when your students will use edtech tools is an important step in creating an engaging digital classroom. LearnZillion has screencast lessons that are aligned with Common Core Standards (K-8 ELA and mathematics). Take time to prep usernames and passwords.

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EdTech Common Core Video Student Engagement 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

They search based on subject matter, video topic, Common Core or state standard, or simply browse a list of videos. Many topics include thorough teacher resources such as lesson plans and assessments. They can even create quizzes to assess their learning.

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Edmodo Common Core Digital Citizenship Video 314