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Check for Understanding: What Are You Learning About Your Students During the Lesson?

Catlin Tucker

Teachers can design a follow-up activity in which students post comments to each other’s Padlet Wall images, videos, or explanations. Quick Check with Google Forms or Schoology. Plus, the students’ scores on a “quick check” are not something I would put into a grade book.

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Check for Understanding: What Are You Learning About Your Students During the Lesson?

Catlin Tucker

Teachers can design a follow-up activity in which students post comments to each other’s Padlet Wall images, videos, or explanations. Quick Check with Google Forms or Schoology. Plus, the students’ scores on a “quick check” are not something I would put into a grade book.

Schoology 285
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Hobsons’ Higher Ed Business Split and Sold in Separate Deals Totaling $410M

Edsurge

The two most recent acquisitions are Hoonuit , a set of data management and analytics tools, and Schoology , a learning management system. based company claims it serves more than 45 million students in more than 80 countries. Across these products, the Folsom, Calif.-based

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Flip Your Back-to-School Night

Catlin Tucker

I explain why I believe it’s important to place students at the center of learning in the classroom and how I use blended learning strategies and technology to create a student-centered learning experience. I emphasize that the way students communicate is changing and that directly impacts how I approach the design of our class.

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Get Common Core Ready: Achieve Dynamic Student-led Discussions

Catlin Tucker

It wasn’t until I incorporated online discussions into my traditional class that I was able to engage every voice in our class dialog. I use Schoology for our online discussions. My students begin the year developing and practicing their online communication skills with online icebreakers.

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The Pandemic Put Student Poverty in Plain Sight

Edsurge

We had given our students individual Chromebooks, so they had access to Schoology assignments, Google Classroom and various announcements made by the district through email and social media. What happened was an en masse crashing of grades, attendance and student engagement.

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As Districts Return to Remote Learning, Are They Any Better Prepared?

Edsurge

They needed to find ways to reach their students, engage them, motivate them and connect with them in ways that built on the lessons they had learned from the first few months of the pandemic. What they want additional support in is how to engage students in a highly complex manner in online learning, and how to keep students engaged.

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