By making auditing online courses easy and free, they exponentially expand their ability to attract and capture student data, which will remain in the silo.
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Teacher's Visual Guide to Creating Infographics Using Piktochart ~ Educational Technolo... - 68 views
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Great infographic on creating infographics!
Can we change the PD culture of communication? | eSchool News | eSchool News | 2 - 45 views
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This reminds me of the Dual Language observations each month as part of the Principal PLCs. Very powerful experience and what an awesome amount of feedback for the classroom teacher and data to start conversations about instructional practice!
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Could we in the United States create school cultures in which instructing colleagues on how they might improve performance is not a rare and emotion-laden event, but rather an accepted and valued mechanism in the development of desirable professional practice?
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I think RARE is part of the issue. The fact that we don't often have observers in our classrooms, and we don't often talk about the practices that are effective makes for a feeling of being singled out if criticism is offered.
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Making the Most Out of Teacher Collaboration | Edutopia - 42 views
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Collaboration
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effective teacher collaboration
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Collaboration: Build relationships, observe the best, ask questions, share, come prepared
The Internet's Dark Ages - The Atlantic - 51 views
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It’s not a place in any reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library. It is a constantly changing patchwork of perpetual nowness.
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It’s unstable.
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“Except when it goes, it really goes,” said Jason Scott, an archivist and historian for the Internet Archive. “It’s gone gone. A piece of paper can burn and you can still kind of get something from it. With a hard drive or a URL, when it’s gone, there is just zero recourse.”
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Assessment Competency: How to obtain the right information to improve data-dr... - 32 views
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Identifying ways to help teachers think about assessment holistically rather than as a summative piece and create a plan to assess learning through an entire unit. Good quick read.
Free Screen Sharing and Online Meeting Software | Screenleap - 81 views
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Free screen sharing from any device, including smart phones and tablets. Hmm ... does this replace reflections or Apple TV in presentations? - ...1 more comment...
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Mary Vaughn writes: Want to share and collaborate across the classroom? How about across the state or further? http://www.screenleap.com/ is the perfect tool to do that. Easy to use, all you have to do is download the java applet and you're ready to share your screen with anyone at anytime. This works in tandem with apple devices or any device that has internet connection. Unfortunately, right now it's a one-way deal - you'll have to use a pc or mac to share. It gives a simple code or website you can share with others to see your screen. There's a little lagtime but not terribly so. So, if you have teachers who have data projectors going on the fritz, want to do a PLC with other colleagues, or whatever collaboration you're working with, this could be the perfect tool. Hint: use the tabs to open up different websites - you have to keep the original screenleap up and running. -
Instantly share your screen with a join code.
Mathopolis - Math Games - 175 views
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A superb place to find games and questions for the whole of the maths curriculum. Join for free to track progress or just play the games. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Knoema for Education - 41 views
How Can We Make Assessments Meaningful? | Edutopia - 170 views
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Criteria for a Meaningful Classroom Assessment To address these requirements, I ask myself the following guided questions: Does the assessment involve project-based learning? Does it allow for student choice of topics? Is it inquiry based? Does it ask that students use some level of internet literacy to find their answers? Does it involve independent problem solving? Does it incorporate the 4Cs? Do the students need to communicate their knowledge via writing in some way? Does the final draft or project require other modalities in its presentation? (visual, oral, data, etc...)
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So how can high-stakes assessments be meaningful to students? For one thing, high-stakes tests shouldn't be so high-stakes. It's inauthentic. They should and still can be a mere snapshot of ability. Additionally, those occasional assessments need to take a back seat to the real learning and achievement going on in every day assessments observed by the teacher. The key here, however, is to assess everyday. Not in boring, multiple-choice daily quizzes, but in informal, engaging assessments that take more than just a snapshot of a student's knowledge at one moment in time. But frankly, any assessment that sounds cool can still be made meaningless. It's how the students interact with the test that makes it meaningful. Remember the 4 Cs and ask this: does the assessment allow for: Creativity Are they students creating or just regurgitating? Are they being given credit for presenting something other than what was described? Collaboration Have they spent some time working with others to formulate their thoughts, brainstorm, or seek feedback from peers? Critical Thinking Are the students doing more work than the teacher in seeking out information and problem solving? Communication Does the assessment emphasize the need to communicate the content well? Is there writing involved as well as other modalities? If asked to teach the content to other students, what methods will the student use to communicate the information and help embed it more deeply?
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Another way to ensure that an assessment is meaningful, of course, is to simply ask the students what they thought. Design a survey after each major unit or assessment. Or, better yet, if you want to encourage students to really focus on the requirements on a rubric, add a row that's only for them to fill out for you. That way, the rubric's feedback is more of a give-and-take, and you get feedback on the assessment's level of meaningfulness as soon as possible.
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Worthwhile article on designing meaningful assessments
Blended learning: Uncovering its transformative potential in higher education - 48 views
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This article is one of the many written by D. Randy Garrison on the value of e-learning both as an independent entity and (as in this article) part of the blended learning environment. The authors are Dr. D. Randy Garrison, professor and academic director of Learning Commons at the University of Calgary; and Dr. Heather Kanuka, professor and academic director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Alberta. Both authors have written extensively on the topic of e-learning, distance education, and adult education. This article discusses the potential of blended learning in higher education. The authors conclude that blended learning can have a substantial benefit for the student both in terms of logistics and educational satisfaction. "Blended learning is about rethinking and redesigning the teaching and learning relationship." However, it requires that the program's administrative and leadership issues are addressed and a solid action plan is in place. A "community of inquiry" must be formed by good course design which can be at the same time quite simple and yet complex. This topic is of great interest to me as I would like to reinstate a successful blended learning program at the college where I teach.
The Dangers of Mixing Student Data and Machine Learning - Teach Better - 19 views
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Machine learning is very good at prediction but correlation does not equal causation.
Formative and Summative Assessment in the Classroom - 5 views
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When a comprehensive assessment program at the classroom level balances student achievement information derived from both summative and formative assessment sources, a fuller picture of where a student is relative to established learning targets and standards emerges."> This is a cached version of http://www.nmsa.org/Publications/WebExclusive/Assessment/tabid/1120/Default.aspx. Diigo.com has no relation to the site.position:absolute;right:20px;top:5px;color
Education Week: Effective Use of Digital Tools Seen Lacking in Most Tech.-Rich Schools - 100 views
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Those factors include integrating technology into intervention classes; setting aside time for professional learning and collaboration for teachers; allowing students to use technology to collaborate; integrating technology into core curricula at least weekly; administering online formative assessments at least weekly; lowering the student-to-computer ratio as much as possible; using virtual field trips at least monthly; encouraging students to use search engines daily; and providing training for principals on how to encourage best practices for technology implementation. Only about 1 percent of the 1,000 schools surveyed by Project RED followed all those steps, and those that did “saw dramatic increases in student achievement and had revenue-positive experiences,” Ms. Wilson said.
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Data drives decisions....or at least should
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cut their photocopying and printing budgets in half.
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The "paperless classroom" or the "not so much paper as before" classroom
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This is similar to what is happening in Australia, particularly NSW, I think.
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Most schools that have integrated laptop computers and other digital devices into learning are not following the paths necessary to maximize the use of technology in ways that will raise student achievement and help save money, a report concludes."We all know that technology does things to improve our lives, but very few schools are implementing properly," said Leslie Wilson, a co-author of the study, "The Technology Factor: Nine Keys to Student Achievement and Cost-Effectiveness," released last month. She is the chief executive officer of the Mason, Mich.-based One-to-One Institute, which advocates putting mobile-computing devices into the hands of all students.
Eight Ways To Build Blended Learning Class Culture | EdSurge News - 60 views
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the following eight actions have a positive impact on the blended learning culture among our students.
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1. Identify Online Learning Behavior You Want To See
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128 27 Romain Bertrand · May 15, 2014Eight Ways To Build Blended Learning Class CultureHow to get students to value and care about the work they do onlineRomain Bertrand
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An American Chromebook Crisis: new report shows sad trends of how students are using th... - 71 views
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Blog post by Andy Losik, STEM Teacher "An American Chromebook Crisis: new report shows sad trends of how students are using the devices"
Chrome Experiments - Experiments - 65 views
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Some times some brilliant peaple invents new manners to see the world and make us understand more easily abstracts concepts.
SSD - 13 views
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Sometimes we forget as teachers how important this is.
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Data suggest that phonological awareness is closely associated with productive phonological ability especially in regard to pseudoword, sentence-word and word-phoneme segmentation tasks that are independent of mental age and educational experiences
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These are truly awesome!!!! Eventhough I'm not a Language Implementor, that doesn't mean I can't use things like this to aid in my students learning.
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Classroom interventions for Articulation
20 Awesome BYOD and Mobile Learning Apps | Edutopia - 106 views
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For collaborative, simultaneous writing and peer feedback, Google Drive (26)/Docs is still king
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Students should know how to convert, export, import and move data seamlessly between apps and devices of all kinds. They should also know how to "print to epaper" and how to open and annotate the documents in various readers.
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Blogger (Kidblog (32)),
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