The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 3, 2018

A district is assessing itself with a massive project for 800 eighth graders. How to Assess Your District: The Global Challenge Project is an Example. How the District Uses This Project to Assess Itself. Then we use that data to then inform our other programs and our other types of assessments to see how we can improve those.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 11, 2021

As you might know, I am very excited about STEM education! In fact, get ready even more STEM posts. For consultations and presentations at schools across the country I have developed these 15 questions you may want to ask as you develop or assess STEM possibilities for students. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Welcome to another STEM related post. There are a lot of ideas floating around in regards to STEM education. As I reflect on my observation of STEM practice in my travels across the country I have become more convinced that STEM is a verb, and not just a set of nouns. STEM across Curriculum….

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

It’s from that kind of perspective that TeachThought was founded, so it was surprising to me when I realized recently that, after years of writing about questions and questions stems and the power of questions and so on, I hadn’t ever written about the types of questions. Hopefully I can get to that soon.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Welcome to the second of two articles as I relate the importance of making sure STEM is considered a verb. There are a lot of definitions in regards to STEM education usually in regards to the nouns including Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. I have some great posts coming your way involving PBL and STEM.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2024

But it definitely needs that concentrated effort. That is really what's critical in changing how girls see themselves in these careers and what they can do, so we have to reinforce that STEM will allow them to change the world. Boys vs. Girls Globally, boys scored higher in math than girls.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

AI Solutions Drive Higher STEM Test Scores. With the technology still in its emergent phase, teachers who are interested in these solutions may also find it difficult to gather definitive best practices. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. It’s fine to use one letter throughout (like an X). Holiday Poll.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Doing some assessment, finding out where they are at and moving on from there. Moving from an assessment. “I Doing some assessment, finding out where they are at and moving on from there.”. Principal at South Marshall STEM Academy in Marshall, Texas. One issue did ruffle teachers—and their leaders—earlier this month.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, Mercy was the first all-girls school in the country to earn a STEM certification. We became STEM certified in 2016 because we wanted independent verification of our program’s quality. Mercy’s curriculum requires at least 75 percent of a course’s assessment points to be for performance tasks addressing real-world problems.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

At the beginning of the 21st century, the definition of digital equity revolved around the provision of a digital device to every student. Aimed at school-age children, categories include, earth, animals, STEM, family, create and play, know and learn, technology, and more.

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User Generated Education

JULY 24, 2017

So it is no wonder that when learners are given hands-on tasks such as those common to maker education, STEM, and STEAM, they sometimes struggle with their completion. Struggles with authentic tasks mimics real life so much more than completing those types of tasks and assessments done at most schools. Struggles are good.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 14, 2021

Read about my 15 ways you can turn STEM from a noun to a verb! Welcome to the second of two articles as I relate the importance of making sure STEM is considered a verb. There are a lot of definitions that relate to STEM education usually in regards to the nouns including Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

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Neo LMS

MAY 10, 2022

There are different types of learning gaps, but usually, they all fall into one of these five categories: Knowledge gaps stem from a lack of correct and sufficient knowledge; they can be caused by poorly planned teaching activities. The ILP also provides a faster way to assess student knowledge via the ILP’s competency-related quiz system.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Welcome to number four in a series of four posts bringing you over 150 amazing resources for STEM education. I hope you enjoyed my thoughts of STEM being a Verb a few posts back. You will also find posts filled with resources including Science , Technology , and Engineering in STEM. Math STEM Resources.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 22, 2022

A widely-quoted definition of interdisciplinary studies appears on the Association website and was given by J. Read more: STEM vs. STEAM: The importance of the Arts. Klein and W. The benefits of interdisciplinary teaching. Implementing the interdisciplinary approach has to surpass other obstacles such as doubt and stress.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 30, 2019

Even when diverse needs are addressed, it can be difficult for educators to actually design new materials that effectively educate and assess these students. Assess students’ needs. Poor performance on classwork and tests could stem from any number of elements which then vary from student to student.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. It’s fine to use one letter throughout (like an X). Holiday Poll.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

STEM Idea #1: Teach with Passion. And I think that sometimes as adults, especially when we start talking about STEM or STEAM or whatever buzzword it is that your school uses, we muddy the learning. And I think that’s one thing we’ve got to keep in mind when we’re talking STEAM or STEM or whatever acronym. Aaron: Yes.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

What is STEM? The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. More recently, arts were added to this educational model, as educators believed that art and creativity play an important role in the understanding of the former subjects in the STEM Curriculum , thus changing the acronym from STEM to STEAM.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more. Leslie: My fifth one would definitely be LearnZillion. The best learning that I’ve had thus far was definitely at ISTE 17. OK, what else? Leslie: It’s amazing. It was amazing!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 26, 2019

Words don’t stem the tide of intolerance. These have all been done and by many measures, America and the world are more intolerant than ever. So what do you do in your classroom to get this important attitude across? Here are some fresh ideas that you may not have tried: Model tolerant behavior.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2018

Matthew: Well, the tribe is an affinity group — which is by definition a group of people that come together because they have an affinity or a like of something. So this work stems from my dissertation research which was an ethnography. They design these assessments based on reflections. Who is the tribe? Vicki: Hmmm.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

That’s diving into STEM a little bit – you know Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – so rather than getting kind of… You know, sometimes you see these STEM activities. I’m going off on a little bit of a tangent here, but sometimes when you see those STEM activities, it’s like STEM in a box, right?

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techlearning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Welcome to another STEM related post. There are a lot of ideas floating around in regards to STEM education. As I reflect on my observation of STEM practice in my travels across the country I have become more convinced that STEM is a verb, and not just a set of nouns.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

Since math classes progress in a mostly linear way, students have to get fractions to set them up for algebra; and how they do in algebra will likely influence whether they even get to try for advanced courses like calculus, a traditional weed-out metric for lucrative science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. isn’t working.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Think back to an assessment you took in your elementary years. The assessments you took were not that memorable; you probably didn’t have a lasting connection and there was absolutely no impact on you as a learner whatsoever. So why can’t we do that in a class that [only] allows for traditional assessments? Let’s embrace that!

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 16, 2024

It can also be used as a quick and dirty assessment tool, as the conversations generally reflect a level of understanding the teacher can use gauge mastery and plan further instruction. You can also see our sentence stems for critical thinking here for other examples (you don’t have to buy the materials to see the samples).

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

We saw some movement in the 80’s and 90’s around portfolio development, around performance assessment, and other sorts of indicators of authentic work. One of the more interesting initiatives that we’re seeing is coming out of New York, a consortium of schools called the New York Performance Assessment Consortium. Scott: Right.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

I found what they had to say about formative assessment and their use of technology inspiring, and have included their videos below. These abilities parallel many of the tasks that teachers perform in order to implement effective formative assessment in the classroom. What is Formative Assessment?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field. But Martin said that non-STEM students didn’t really need to learn trigonometric functions, which are used in satellite navigation or mechanical engineering. But that’s maybe 20 percent.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2018

I’ve been sharing the task board with other teachers, and other teachers have been hopping on board sharing what they’ve done, so it’s definitely kind of catching fire in our school, I see them kind of using it on Twitter and other different places, so it’s very exciting. It’s really wonderful. Really, it’s been great. Laura: I do for sure.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more. They can definitely match letters and numbers, and so it’s all about working with the skills that the kids do have. This Ed Tech Tool Tuesday is a “GAFE for Littles” episode.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

There are a lot of ideas floating around in regards to STEM education. As I reflect on my observation of STEM practice in my travels across the country I have become more convinced that STEM is a verb, and not just a set of nouns. STEM Opportunity -Are you interested in STEM and projects beyond the classroom?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 24, 2017

CARRIE: I don’t know if they learned about it better but I feel like they definitely will remember it better because they will go back and they will watch these videos over and over again.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Check out my Booking Page .

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Maine has long been an innovator in education, stemming back to the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. You can find the official definition here. This has been challenging, as each district has designed systems around proficiency-based learning with varying definitions of what it means to “be proficient.”

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