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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

As schools work to make digital assessments more effective, now is a great time to learn about how to create and plan your own for the fall. Whether you’re looking for a simple way to get started or want to deep dive into designing your own online assessments, these courses are great options to evaluate your online classrooms.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

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. When you take time to improve assessment, students can improve their learning.

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Most educational games teach skills, not thinking

Dangerously Irrelevant

Jordan Shapiro said: The majority of [learning] games fail because they attempt to teach skills rather than thinking. They miss the whole reason we should be excited about game-based learning in the first place: because it offers the potential to change the common way we approach teaching and learning.

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30 Sites/Apps for Differentiated Instruction

Technology Tidbits

Arcademics - One of my favorite sites for game based learning (K-8th grade) in a wide range of subjects. Also, there is an educational portal that allows teachers to track/monitor students, generate detailed reports, and assess student's learning to make it easy to differentiate instruction.

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20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom

Shake Up Learning

This is not a robust threaded discussion tool like I wish it was, but it can be handy for formative assessments and to check for understanding. Formative is a free online assessment tool that is very robust. Learn more about InsertLearning here: 4 Ways to Blend Learning with InsertLearning.

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learn about the resources that can help district leaders develop the next generation network infrastructure necessary to support multiple mobile devices on and off campus, the delivery of digital content, and administration of online assessments. Game Based Learning, Dyslexia, and Reading Comprehension.

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