Group items tagged assessment - Digital Academics

shared by Michael Comins on 11 Jan 11 - No Cached

With the rise of standards-based instruction, districts and schools have been seeking out the best tools to foster it. Standards-Based grade books have been created is response to this need. As with educational changes, there are exciting potentials and pitfalls. First of all, here is what works when using the standards-based grade book:
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1)     Ensures targeted Assessment and Rubrics
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2)     Continuity across Classes and Teacher
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3)     Leverages Summative Assessmen
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While the Standards-based grade book is helping to ensure better teaching and instruction, we need to make sure that fosters innovation in education. In general there needs to be some flexibility in the creation and utilization of the grade book between the school and provider. In order to do that, here are some tips for not only those constructing the grade book, but also for the teachers using it. 1)     Make sure the Grade book allows for 21st Century Skills
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2)     Make sure there is place for Formative Assessments
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3)     Keep Assessments rigorous
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Very low level of development of learning assets specifically for mobile devices.
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Just-in-time knowledge: Short bursts of information and learning assets that can be consumed anywhere in just a few minutes.
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Moderate to high levels of technology frustration in making learning assets fully viewable and optimized on devices — Flash on an iPad, for example.
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Lagging levels of mobile readiness from many learning management systems.
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Mobile-only functions:
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E-books on steroids: Take much of our current e-learning and pour it into a dynamic e-book, which combines content, collaboration, assessment and performance support.
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shared by Michael Comins on 15 May 12 - No Cached

i-Ready.com from Curriculum Associates, is a great K-8 adaptive assessment with engaging content.
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Dreambox.com is a K-3 game-based adaptive math product.
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ST Math from MIND Research Institute is a visual game-based approach used with great results in over 1,200 schools; ST Math is now available on iPad. They are launching their Seattle Math Initiative this Wednesday
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Mangahigh.com is a games-based online math resource that hosts some 70 million math questions answered per month.  Check out Tangled Web—a complementary angles game or watch a video.
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ReasoningMind.com, based on the Russian curriculum with a pretty good adaptive engine and a lot of support from the Hoglund Foundation.
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CK12.com, famous for dozens of free math and science textbooks, is now an OER object library.   FlexMath.org is becoming a very cool adaptive product—stay tuned for more.
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Hippocampus has solid high school math and science content.  NROCmath.org previews an exciting developmental math sequence.
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shared by Michael Comins on 23 Mar 12 - No Cached

i-Ready’s two components, adaptive diagnostic and standards preparation, provide a visually appealing and fun approach to educational materials. Both programs allow teachers, parents and administrators to follow the progress of every student down to the skill level. The diagnostic program not only identifies the grade level a student is at, but pin points the skills needed to improve and adapts lessons accordingly.
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shared by Michael Comins on 10 Aug 12 - No Cached

Plan for the shift to personal digital learning in phases over the next three years. You need six, coordinated plans considering content and instruction, assessment and data, devices and broadband, staffing and professional development, fiscal impact, and communications.
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