EdNews Daily

MAY 17, 2017

One of last year’s most inspiring panels at the 2016 Reimagine Education conference was that which focused on alternative university models, where the innovation is fundamental and radical. Some point to the essential reductionism of the examination process , questioning the validity of the way that student learning is assessed.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2021

Monica is the author of Deeper Learning with QR Codes and Augmented Reality: A Scannable Solution for Your Classroom (Corwin Press, 2016) and #FormativeTech: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scannable Formative Assessment with Technology (Corwin Press, 2017). She is a webinar host for SimpleK12 and a regular contributor to Edutopia.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 12, 2019

Technology Planning Starts with an Assessment. A free security assessment is the first step to determining whether vulnerabilities exist. An assessment can provide a framework so that IT leaders can start to have these conversations in their districts. Make Sure Faculty and Staff Know the Laws. There are plenty of them.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

adults ages 18–65—around 118 million—perform at or below the lowest proficiency levels in problem solving in technology rich environments ( National Center for Education Statistics, 2016 ). The goal of the assessment was to analyze how technology is implemented in adult education classrooms throughout the city.

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Educational Technology Guy

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

It combines the best features of a learning management system, assessment management and data management into one. It provides powerful assessment options to support every subject, grade level, and pedagogical method. It is integrated classroom tools for students and teachers and powerful transparency for families and school leaders.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels. The program follows six key tenets: project-based learning, learner agency, whole person development, blended learning and competency-based assessment.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

million grant from the Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation, GlassLab aimed to prove that educational games could be just as fun as their mainstream titles, and serve as reliable formative assessment tools. The first word in GlassLab’s name stands for games, learning and assessment). Launched in 2012 with a three-year, $10.2

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2022

As we assess students or gather data in an experiment, for example, we use it to make decisions in our teaching practice or other work. Our instruction is often informed based on the data we receive from assessing students in a variety of ways. When it comes to data, we can distinguish between data literacy and data science.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Partnership: Tutor Doctor franchisees, tutors, and students worldwide now have access to MindPrint assessments, which use cognitive data to better understand learner variability. The knowledge gained from these assessments equips students with self-awareness, helping them become more motivated and independent learners.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

As reported in April 2016 (the most recent year for which data is available from the National Assessment of Educational Progress ) only 37 percent of high school seniors in the U.S. They may be on to something. will be able to handle college-level reading, and only 25 percent will grasp college-level math.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 23, 2017

Image credit: www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/8-digital-skills-we-must-teach-our-children/ While skills are an important part of learning and career paths, they’re not rich or nuanced enough to guide students towards true mastery and success. Success in a digital world will rely on much more than skills.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 25, 2019

Monica is the author of Deeper Learning with QR Codes and Augmented Reality: A Scannable Solution for Your Classroom (Corwin Press, 2016) and #FormativeTech: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scannable Formative Assessment with Technology (Corwin Press, 2017). She is a webinar host for SimpleK12 and a regular contributor to Edutopia.

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Digital Promise

JULY 15, 2021

I have been extremely fortunate to be a part of OTAN’s Digital Leadership Academy (DLAC ), first as a participant in 2016, and now as a coach to mentor other adult educators in meeting their program goals. Early on, the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment is taken by each member to determine their top strengths.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

At the same time, the percentage of students who say they read for pleasure is declining : Fewer than half of all children ages 8-18 (43 percent) say they enjoy reading in their spare time, down from 58 percent in 2016. The camp also yielded noteworthy results on the DIBELS 8th Edition Reading Assessment.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

percent by 2016. A basic technology infrastructure including a student information system, assessment data, digital instructional resources and bandwidth to schools, is essential.”. This approach allows teachers to develop proactive solutions to help at-risk students before it’s too late. How Can Teachers Get Started with AI?

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 14, 2018

Using that information, administrators chose to integrate DreamBox , a software solution designed to help math teachers teach and assess students. After one year, students who participated in the program scored on average 97 percent higher on the STAR assessment than those who did not, according to a case study.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 29, 2016

One of the participants, Charlotte Thornton (@cthornto) , shares her Google secrets and some assessment tips below. — Shelly Sanchez (@ShellTerrell) June 28, 2016. LIVE on #Periscope : Google search secrets by @cthornto #passthescopeedu #iste2016 #gafe #notatiste16 https://t.co/5JQbcL6jNG. 5JQbcL6jNG.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Sponsor : PowerSchool has fantastic a fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my “Digital Dozen: 12 Tips for Building Your Digital Classroom” and an upcoming webinar on “Best Practices for a Balanced Assessment System.” Listen to the Show. Related Shows.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The program began in March 2016 at MIT, a comprehensive middle school with 6th, 7th and 8th grades. Instruction was driven by data-rich, strategic and reflective practices using online formative assessments such as Newsela quizzes, STAR Reading and district-aligned Edulastic assessments. About the Literacy Initiative.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 19, 2017

For example, before the 2016-2017 school year, they invited researcher Melina Uncapher, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, and CEO of the Institute for Applied Neuroscience , to share research that would help them better understand their “end users”: students.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

As we reflected on our media literacy journey, it was exciting to see how our initial presentation, Media Literacy in a Post-Truth Era, which we first shared during a 2016 technology seminar for our district, has continued to evolve, with new resources and even a new title: Thinking Critically About the (Fake!!)

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Digital Promise

JUNE 26, 2019

Since March 2016, over 2,000 schools and educators have signed the Maker Promise to register their commitment to providing maker learning experiences for all students. Maker learning, while in many ways still a grassroots movement, has become increasingly common in schools around the world.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Their study found that while the teachers exhibited minimal bias when assessing the accuracy of mathematical solutions, they significantly underestimated certain students’ mathematical ability, with the largest bias against Black and Hispanic girls. 2016; Harmon et al., 2019; Kleekamp & Zapata, 2018).

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Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

Journal of Education and Practice, November 2016, 7, 82-98. Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement.” Sheldon, S. B., & Jung, S. Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School.” E., & Tyson, D.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 23, 2016

Here are 3 of my student’s pieces of work: https://edtech4beginnerscom.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/lugus.mp3. https://edtech4beginnerscom.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/zak.mp3. https://edtech4beginnerscom.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/zen.m4a. They then had to read them aloud in pairs – voice recording each other.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

That means we shouldn’t just use edtech to replace worksheets, run “drill and kill” exercises, or crunch assessment performance numbers. According to Census Bureau data from 2016, nearly 82 percent of all households in the U.S. Technology will help create equity in schools when it’s used powerfully.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Author of Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective, Blogging for Educators, Teaching Students to Self Assess: How do I help students grow as learners?, Most recently, Sackstein was named one of ASCD’s Emerging leaders class of 2016, in addition to presenting a TedxTalk about throwing out grades.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 29, 2017

Between 2014-2016 the University of South Australia has been using the pedagogy associated with both playing and designing LBMLGs to blaze a trail that is informing the development of a contextually-based mobile learning framework for higher education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Neil Jarrett (@edtechneil) November 17, 2016. If I had to pick my favourite app of 2016, it would be this one! 10) Typeform is very useful for end of unit assessments. My class were totally motivated after getting many likes and retweets for their work: My class tried black-out poetry today. 8) Haiku Deck. 4) Kahoot!

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 25, 2021

The post 4 Projects that Go Beyond Traditional Assessment – SULS0111 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Jen shares ideas that will help teachers go BEYOND traditional assessments like reports, essays, presentations, and cookie-cutter assignments. 4 Projects that Go Beyond Traditional Assessment with @virtualgiff.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2018

By October of 2016, a National Assessment of Educational Progress report highlighted Tennessee as the fastest improving state in the nation in science. Many students weren’t enrolling in college, and the ones who did often needed remedial courses. 25 at the Future of Education Technology Conference in Orlando, Fla.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2017

At the fall 2016 meeting of the League of Innovative Schools, a group of leaders convened to address these questions together. Peppler discussed her ongoing work to develop tools and rubrics for documenting and assessing learning in these environments. What does research have to say about maker learning?

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A 2016 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that only 26 percent of Americans can name all three branches of government, which was a significant decline from previous years. students reach the “proficient” standard on the NAEP Civics Assessment.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

We wanted to redefine effective standards-based instruction and assessment. In 2016-17, I was the new English department chair at ECRCHS, which is a large public charter school in Los Angeles. We took a measured approach and piloted Revision Assistant in August 2016 with a small group of English and History teachers.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Go easy on the inspirational, aspirational statements; go deep on data to support the needs assessments and recommendations. It should not be controversial in 2016 that there is a baseline expectation of access to technology in schools, just as there are baseline expectations for access to textbooks and desks. Offering online learning?

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