Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2018

Taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has become a right-of-passage for high school students as they leave formal education and enter the next phase of learning. The site includes over 1200 SAT questions written by experienced educators and designed to be similar to what students will find on the real test. See my full review here.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Listen to Jennifer Gonzalez talk about 5 tech tools every educator should try in 2017. chief innovation officer of CUE, who has helped train 32,000 educators since he’s been there. So I’m going to take you back in my way back machine, in the year 2002; I’m minding my own business, teaching sixth grade, doing Latin roots.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Dell Black Friday and Year Long Education Deals. Did you know that Dell has a cost-free education discount program offered to educators and their friends and family all year long? Too much education is received passively, and Jon knows from both research and experience that students learn best when they are active participants.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam Moran has been a leader in education reform in Virginia over the past several years as the state moved from testing to transformation. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

Nonprofits will seek opportunities to ensure assessments and curricula measure and teach essential skills most important to secondary and higher education students and institutions. May 18, 2021, NEW YORK – The Council for Aid to Education, Inc. About CenterPoint Education Solutions. centerpointeducation.org. About CAE.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 26, 2021

In 2001, a group The group consisted of “representatives (from) three groups: cognitive psychologists, curriculum theorists and instructional researchers, and testing and assessment specialists” (Anderson & Krathwohl 2001). ” We will explore the changes in more detail in What Changes Were Made To Bloom’s Taxonomy?

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2022

The pandemic reignited the debate over shifting away from high-stakes testing to a more balanced assessment approach that’s part of the regular instructional cycle. And while some progress has been made, new research suggests we’re at a pivotal moment for changing K-12 assessment. Why can’t we break free of high-stakes testing?

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

When No Child Left Behind passed back in 2002, Congress enthusiastically proclaimed that 100 percent of American students would be proficient in reading and math by 2014. NCES has been administering the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam since 1969.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Council for Aid to Education, Inc. CAE), a leading provider of performance-based, authentic assessments measuring essential college and career readiness skills, announced it joined the Education Research and Development Institute (ERDI).

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More Verbs

MARCH 1, 2016

Our destination should be more than just the work we do: taking attendance, direct instruction, providing practice, reviewing and assessing work, providing feedback, etc. In the spring of 2002, eighteen regional meetings were held around Maine in support of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI). Destination Matters.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

Right before the start of the Fall semester in 2002, Robertson learned that the 400-seat movie theater that held his Principles of Marketing class at San Francisco State University would no longer be available. Robertson notes that redesigning a curriculum using modules allows educators to build a cache of materials a little at a time.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

The story offers a good example of how education is shifting as we wrap up two decades of the 21st century. Although some educators have grown weary of the term “21st century learning,” the drive to transform education “matters more today—a lot more—than when we started the conversation.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Council for Aid to Education, Inc. CAE), a leading provider of performance-based educational assessments measuring 21 st century skills, as well as custom assessments, today announced the appointment of Stacey Sparks to senior director of content design and development.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2019

Now, scholars are detecting the same type of biases in the education product industry — even in a federally curated collection of research that’s supposed to be of the highest quality. Higher Education. Department of Education launched in 2002 to help educators decide which educational products to buy.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011 ). educators, and Catherine Lewis, who conducts academic research on lesson study.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Each chapter concludes with an assessment to prove employee understanding. Even with competition on the rise from online course providers that have moved beyond education and into corporate learning, Scivally sees plenty of growth opportunities in the industry, he says. Founded in 1999 and based in Deerfield Beach, Fla.,

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. see this 2002 Education Week report ). Performance assessments like the edTPA have been found to predict teaching effectiveness.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 36(4), 476–500. Review of Educational Research, 81(2), 201–233; Headden, S. Postsecondary education descriptive analysis report. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement; California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. 25) Kraft, M.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. In 2002, federal education law began requiring schools to spend federal dollars on research-based products only. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz. But they are all misleading.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

That’s a spirit that is very much a part of 826, a network of elaborately whimsical tutoring and writing centers that Eggers helped launch in 2002. You’ve also helped start a number of education nonprofits. Have you considered writing about education, or setting up one of your novels in a school environment?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

million students access its digital course materials, including those at 750 of the top 1,000 higher education institutions in North America. Fountainhead was founded in 2002 and is based in Southlake, Texas. Last year, the company ceased sales of individual assessment tools to instead offer a bundle of its products.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I argued yesterday that authentic learning is a vital part of education in the 21st Century. We also need authentic assessment for learning. And what does this process of assessment teach students about the school system? 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association , New Orleans, LA, USA.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Casserly, Executive Director of the Council, to select an educator pursuing a graduate-level education degree to receive a $10,000 scholarship. Curriculum Associates partnered with the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) to sponsor the first-ever Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2019

A growing movement in higher education seeks to bring “critical digital pedagogy” to college classrooms. Or, as one of our guests put it: “in some ways it's about showing [students] the Matrix code behind education, letting them see how education works.” But the idea can seem a bit abstract and, well, academic.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The detrimental effects of this “boy bias” were largest for wealthier, well-educated families. Higher Education. This study analyzed families who started having kids between 1994 and 2002 and sent them to public schools between 2002 and 2012. Their children’s performance in mathematics was also assessed.

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2016

Preferences can be assessed and individuals can be taught to make choices related to their preferences, thereby minimizing the frustration of seldom being able to choose what is meaningful. An intervention agent must help to hire and train babysitters, respite providers, in-home education service staff and job coaches. Horner, R.H.,

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ExcelinEd

MARCH 20, 2019

In 2002, state legislators enacted a comprehensive K-3 reading policy, and Florida was awarded the federal Reading First grant—a nationwide reading initiative, driven by the National Reading Panel report. The report concluded that explicit and systematic instruction of the “ Fab 5 ” helps kids become better readers. Florida’s Results.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As an educator, Jared Cotton has worn nearly as many hats as Dr. Seuss’s Bartholomew Cubbins—elementary math and science teacher, assistant principal, principal, district director of assessment and accountability, assistant superintendent, superintendent. Which isn’t to say that the readership of educators has been entirely forgotten.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 17, 2023

During the edLeader Panel “ A Roadmap to Employability: Integrating Higher-Order Skills Into Curricula and Assessment ,” distinguished speakers shed light on crucial aspects of education policy, funding, and curriculum development, with a focus on preparing students for employability and entrepreneurship.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As misleading news reports, misinformation and false data spread throughout the world, students of all ages need better instruction on how to assess media and data. Peter Adams, senior vice president of education, News Literacy Project. We’re teaching web credibility as if it’s 2002,” he said.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

If you’ve been in the educational field long enough, you’ve probably come across Fleming’s learning styles theory. In talking about the learning styles theory, we’re defining it here as the educational model proposed by Neil Fleming in 1984 that presents four types of learning styles.[18] What about your students?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2024

She became a special education teacher, and said she never stops thinking about how to create a world in which a young Black student like herself could be taught to work with (instead of against) her learning differences, to reach her full potential. And how do we create a space for all learners to thrive according to their unique design?”

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Back in June, Amelia Vance, the director for education policy at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), spoke at a Federal Commission on School Safety session about the harmful impacts such surveillance can have on students. But for fusion centers, finding the next school shooter before it happens doesn’t involve futuristic mediums.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

You’re the reason that I’m in education. I think that’s one of the most wonderful things about being in education or being a teacher. Betty has been in education since 1968, first starting as a language arts teacher. She told me that she was getting her Masters Degree in Special Ed. And she said, “Ms. So I think, yeah.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Way back in 2002, when Friendster was the biggest social network and people were gathering in Internet cafes, the State of Maine implemented the first 1:1 laptop initiative in the country. The computers were equipped with educational software and wireless connectivity. The iPad does not direct the education—the teacher does.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2020

Unless there are some big changes in our educational system, we will not be able to incorporate this guidance into our schools. K12 online school was founded in 1999 as the nation’s largest full-time virtual school, providing online curricula and other educational services for students in pre-kindergarten through high school in 29 states.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

So what will be the future of higher education, and how will it survive against this hostile backdrop? In May 2000, I was invited to present two keynote speeches about the role technology would play in the future of higher education. The first, undesirable form of disruption stops us from getting to where we wish to be.

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