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How to Assess Digital Literacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

Of late, the most common question is, “How to I assess student digital literacy?” How do I assess faculty digital literacy so I can teach them what they don’t know?” Today, I want to focus on the need to assess digital literacy and what tools are available to do this. Why assess it?

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Standard-aligned Rubrics: Assessing Progress Toward Firm Goals While Allowing for Flexible Means

Catlin Tucker

When we build student agency into a task or an assessment, students may produce various artifacts to demonstrate their learning. The variety of products they create causes many teachers to question how they should assess this work since it takes many forms. The learning objectives are what we want to assess progress toward.

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Preparing Students for Future Careers with Soft Skills Training on Financial Decisions

Ask a Tech Teacher

The Ask a Tech Teacher team has put them together into an article to remind students–and teachers what students should know when they leave high school: Preparing Students for Future Careers with Soft Skills Training on Financial Decisions Teachers hold many responsibilities outside regular education. How will they repay the loan?

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Actionable advice for school leaders on how to create an effective teacher training program

Neo LMS

Actionable advice for school leaders on how to create an effective teacher training program. Specific teacher training can solve many of them, but remember that PD is not a universal remedy. Teachers’ needs vary, of course, so it’s always a good idea to start planning a PD program based on a training needs analysis.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

This session, featuring industry visionary Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape, explores practical ways for educators and instructional designers to impart these essential tactics onto students and trainees through manageable tweaks to curriculum, assessment, and technology.

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6 Ways in which edtech shapes teacher training programs

Neo LMS

When we talk about integrating technology, there’s often the question of training current educators how to use it. Indeed, I think that the current situation demands a proactive strategy: training future teachers how to use technology. 6 Ways in which edtech shapes teacher training programs. To be fair, it’s not anyone’s fault.

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How to manage assessments in the blended classroom

Neo LMS

Blended instruction depends on aspects such as teacher training, access to technology, and funds. But one thing is certain: teachers need to consider the way they assess students in these specific conditions. Assessment is often associated with quizzes, exams, and summative assessments. Pre-teaching.

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WW2 to COVID-19: How Remote Tools Help Reinforce Development Post-Program eLearning

Speaker: Pat D'Amico, Founder and CEO of About-Face Development

While the initial stages of the lockdown had everyone waiting with bated breath for the return to in-person training, it quickly became apparent the paradigm had forever shifted. Assess why moving from knowledge transfer to behavior change has been one of L&D’s greatest challenge.