eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Through this collaboration, Otus is now Discovery Education’s preferred platform for assessment, data, and learning insights. About Otus Otus, an award-winning edtech platform, empowers educators to maximize student performance with comprehensive solutions for K12 assessment, data, and insights.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

After all, one of the hottest topics in edtech these days is the growing practice of banning smartphones in schools, after teachers have reported that the devices distract students from classroom activities and socializing in person with others.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 26, 2018

My experiences in this social space forced me to take a critical lens to my professional practice as well as that of my staff in my school. Over time my primary use of social media shifted from communicator to learner. In a matter of seconds after leaving a room, I was able to share the pictures on social media.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

21st Century Leadership Shift Happens (must see video for any educator unfamiliar with the tends and impacts associated with technology and social media. Principals can use social media for communication, public relations, branding, professional development, and opportunity. Check out this Ning tutorial. What did I miss?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

Use social media platforms to engage with students and provide supplemental resources. You can also use social media platforms to connect with your students to help them prepare for their exams. Some of my favorite places to find these resources are Quizlet , Khan Academy , and even YouTube.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Assessment. This is not the case when assessing its students’ digital literacy levels. Tashjian and her staff offer mixed-level classes for now, but the educators must spend more time assessing the needs their students have as they walk in the door. “That is what keeps us going over here,” Tashjian told me.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Please join Dr. Heather Johnson and me for one or both of our two Spring 2019 social media workshops for SEHD faculty and students! ]. As a faculty member who has an outsized social media presence ( 53,000+ Twitter followers ; video series with 100+ million views ; one of the top education blogs in the world , etc.),

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

Learn more about formative assessment. If you want to listen – Monica Burns did a fantastic podcast episode about her Favorite Formative Assessment Tools. If you prefer reading, see Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools (a post I wrote on Edutopia). She’s author of the book Social LEADia.

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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. You know, we have kids who are really into social media, and they have an opportunity to work with clients to design their website or Twitter campaign or Facebook page or text outreach.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

An Enhanced AI-Powered Assessment Tool: Originally launched in 2024, this tool is the first in a new suite of AI-powered teaching tools currently under development, and it empowers educators to create high-quality assessments using vetted resources right from within Experience.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Last fall, in an effort to address this gap, Facebook pledged to train 3,000 Michiganders in digital skills by 2020 through the Digital Skills Micro-credential program created in partnership with Digital Promise. The number of middle-skill jobs that require digital skills continues to grow. Often, though, adult workers lack this skill set.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Instagram – [link] FaceBook – George Couros | Facebook Website – [link] . The Problem with Negativity on Social Media 00;04;47;23 – 00;05;03;09 George Couros And you see and I'm sure I know you've seen this, too, right? There's some negativity on social media.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. That’s newspapers, evening news, and anything considered ‘mainstream media’ They prefer blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. They can even create quizzes to assess their learning.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 28, 2010

There were sessions about assessment, technology, professional development and others. What I really enjoyed was there were so many people there that I knew because of social media. Social Media. All possible because of social media. The fact is social media breaks down barriers.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 9, 2017

One of the challenges, however, is that much of my social media is pretty wide open and easily accessible through a google search of my uncommon name. 8478 tweets with swear words (unintended consequence – the initial count includes tweets that have anything to do with assessment, assistant, associate, class, pass, etc.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

With lesson planning, assessments, and lining up everything with school and federal standards and policies, all while juggling virtual and face-to-face classes, you know that teachers are busy. Read more: How to create an LMS training program for schools: A step by step guide [INFOGRAPHIC]. Be flexible with PD time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2019

Social Media: @alicekeeler, YouTube. Alice Keeler is a Google Certified Teacher, New Media Consortium K12 Ambassador, Microsoft Innovative Educator and LEC Admin & Online and Blended certified. Social Media: @cultofpedagogy, iTunes podcast. Social Media: @ericcurts, YouTube. FreeTech4Teachers.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Outside the classroom, students love to share their experiences on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. On the one hand, teachers may write assessments, or give audio or visual files regarding student performances directly to them.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2018

In 2017 Facebook claimed more than 4 million companies advertise on its platform, and more than 500,000 companies advertise on Instagram. There is a digital skills gap, and we hope to be apart of decreasing that digital skills gap,” says Parisa Zagat, policy programs manager at Facebook, in an interview with EdSurge.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Facebook (for the two teens who still use it?)” Social media, contrary to its reputation, actually seems to improve certain prosocial behaviors—empathy, to name one—in teenage populations. Scores actually improved the more the kids used social media. What is meant by the ‘digital world?” I ask, “Xbox? Then I pause.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 9, 2017

Oh absolutely, I can’t say– any day I log on to Facebook, I see something that’s been showed or shared with other people that’s absolutely false news. I honestly think it’s the proliferation of social media. We all see that Facebook status update or Twitter tweet. JENNIFER: 00:18.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2021

million post-secondary educators are at risk of losing their jobs today by performing one single act: Posting on social media. billion active social media users at the start of 2021, according to DataReportal.com. Many of us familiar with social media brands with large numbers of monthly active users—such as Facebook ( 2.74

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Now think about the frequency with which you read online articles, blogs, social media posts or listen to podcasts that inspire you or provide new information and perspectives. Nearly 70% of Americans get some of their news from social media; world views—impacting presidential campaigns and more—are shaped by these platforms.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Being an informed contributor to America’s democratic practices and principles requires strong media literacy skills. Without them, even the most civic-minded will find it hard to assess and interpret the mass of information out in the world. Social media platforms are not necessarily the best place to find factual news or information.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. ’s new social media helpline for schools. They don’t like the drama any more than we do.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. Seminars I attended included: using social media to spread the word. copyrights.

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Digital Promise

JULY 24, 2017

Between guilt-tinged uncertainty about screen time for kids ( “So, if you’re using it for good, does it count as screen time?” ) and worry about social media stress for teens, it’s easy to feel like a lost traveler without a GPS. A Facebook friend posts photos from the party and tags you in them. How can we take control?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It started by asking me to self-assess my language skills. While I found a lot to like about this set of education apps, it trampled on one of my pet peeves: Its social media accounts weren’t up to date. Why connect to users through Facebook and blogs if you don’t stay current?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It has become increasingly possible to personalize learning–adapt resources and assessments to student skills and needs and differentiate lessons that are pushed out to individual students or small groups ( read: Shifting my Teacher Mindset with Micro-credentials ). Constructive Conversations – Assessing Student Conversations.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 7, 2018

I think a lot of that stems down and boils down to social media, too. As teachers, we are afraid of failing, and social media contributes to that. I think social media is one of the bst things to ever happen to education, and at the same time some of the worst. We scroll through Facebook.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 12, 2024

In light of the access of modern technology, social media, and new learning models that reconfigure the time and place learning happens, it doesn’t have to be that way. Technology vs Social Media First, for the purpose of this post let’s think of technology and social media as distinct. There are ways.

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 9, 2010

Teach Science and Math tags : podcasting , science , math , favorite Google Apps Lesson Plans UK tags : google , lessonplans , favorite TechTrainingWheels tags : tutorials , favorite News: No Grading, More Learning - Inside Higher Ed tags : grading , assessment , favorite Math Web Interventions tags : math , favorite Social Media in Education: The (..)

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

Her comprehension assessment and teaching resources, COMPLETE COMPREHENSION: FICTION and COMPLETE COMPREHENSION: NONFICTION, help teachers make sense of comprehension, especially in whole chapter books and book-length nonfiction texts. If you wish to see more content by Vicki Davis you can find her on Facebook and Twitter @coolcatteacher.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Or-Tal Kiriati: And I was sure that if they see these differences, they will better know how to assess any work that they would do with ChatGPT. It's a competition we have here in the United States, and his platform was actually about friendships and about social media in particular. Vicki: Yeah, and plus it's generating.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 31, 2017

From there we looked at Formative Assessment and how easy it is to do today. Diversify Through Social Media Social media is an almost constant part of our daily lives. Schools and districts are also embracing social media as another channel to engage stakeholders. Take Pinterest for example.

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