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6 reasons it’s important to create your own online assessments

eSchool News

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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100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

Assessment. Online Assessment with Google Forms – this document gives walk throughs for Flubaroo and other tools to help you assess using Google Forms. Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments. 10 Tools for Assessment for Google Apps on the iPad. Google Classroom and GeoGebra.

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Desmos Passes the Smarter Balanced Test (and Hopes to Save Math Students $100)

Edsurge

For nearly a decade, the founder and CEO of Desmos has been building a free alternative that works on web browsers and mobile devices. Two years ago it notched a deal with Eanes Independent School District (in Austin, Texas) to permit students to use the Desmos iPad app when they took eighth-grade STAAR test. More than 10 million U.S.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

techlearning

Judges liked the Bluetooth streaming functionality, its mobility, and its audio capabilities, allowing up to 6 users at a time to use it with headphones. Gizmos help prepare students for rigorous new standards and online assessments. Judges liked the product’s mobility, its built-in powerstrip, and the rolling cart’s design.

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

NeverEndingSearch

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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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. The iPad would solve that,” he said. His idea was to hire great textbook writers to create digital versions, and make them a feature of the iPad. But if we can make the textbooks free, and they come with the iPad, then they don’t have to be certified. Alexa at School. “Do

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