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Craig Nansen

Technology Combined with Good Teaching Leads to Success | Edutopia - 9 views

  • Of those classrooms employing the boards and using the voting technology, there was an immediate increase of 17 percent in scores.
  • He also found that if a teacher had been given 20-30 months to hone his or her skills, there was an average 20 percentile gain.
  • Robert Marzano
    • Craig Nansen
       
      Robert Marzano has a high level of credibility with our district administrators.
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  • voter-response technology
    • Craig Nansen
       
      We refer to them as "clickers" or classroom response systems. Minot Public Schools use SMART Response units.
  • are the future of educational strategies
  • when a teacher was trained to use the technology, had used it for two years, and did so 75 percent of the time. That profile shows a whopping 29 percentile gain in scores.
  • he warns that there is such a thing as too much technology
  • you clearly "can't take the human being out of teaching."
    • Craig Nansen
       
      David Thornburg states "any teacher who could be replaced by a computer should be." What do you think of this statement?
  • To get the most out of the interactive whiteboard, a school district can't just give it to a teacher, and can't just give it to any teacher. The district has to train that teacher. And Marzano was quick to point out that weaker teachers require professional development in the use of both interactive whiteboards and effective teaching.
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    I shared this article with all our district administrators to support our plan to put SMART Boards in every classroom in the district.
aharvey2015

Plickers - 1 views

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    Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.
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