eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2015

Homegrown online assessments prove invaluable to one district. Assessments are critical to our efforts to improve instruction in K-12 education. At Hopewell Valley Regional School District (HVRSD), we began the transition to online assessment more than three years ago. Online assessment saves teachers’ time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I polled my PLN to find specific tech areas students needed help with in preparing for the Assessments. Pay attention to these and your students will be much more prepared for this Spring’s Common Core assessments: Keyboarding. And typing on an IPad virtual keyboard is not the same. Common Core requires this.

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Common Core How To Assessment iPad 150

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core. John Fallon CEO, Pearson.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Many schools now provide digital devices for students, often a Chromebook or an iPad. There’s no longer an option to hide students from the online world, what is considered by many parents a dangerous place their children should avoid. An important part of succeeding in core classes is understanding the language.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Chromebook iPad 150

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Gizmos help prepare students for rigorous new standards and online assessments. Judges liked that the product provided immediate feedback on both correct and incorrect answers and its adhered to Common Core and state standards. Every Gizmo comes with extensive teaching resources that help make planning and teaching easy.

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Robotics Chromebook Edmentum Mobility 41

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

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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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. The email, he said, detailed a “Priority 1 Alert” that had been issued by Pearson and the New Jersey Department of Education, regarding a student who had tweeted about a test question on the PARCC — a standardized test based on the Common Core State Standards.

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