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5 Tips for Checking Student Understanding in a Virtual Classroom
01/08/2021
Topics: Assessment, ISTE Certification, ISTE Standards
“I’m staring at a bunch of black screens.”
“I’ve never even met my students in person.”
“If I can’t see them, how can I tell if they’ve learned the material?”
These statements illustrate just a few of the many struggles that educators around the…
It’s Time to Re-Evaluate K-12 Assessments
11/10/2020
Topics: Assessment, Online learning
Like many aspects of education, assessments have looked the same for a long time. Typically they take the form of an end-of-unit test or something more immediate, like a quiz using a digital platform like…
Measuring what matters
09/25/2019
Topics: Assessment, Personalized Learning
As educators pursue more personalized, student-driven and inquiry-based approaches to learning, one obstacle that continues to rear its head is the inability of widely used assessment models to successfully measure student learning and growth.
Critics say traditional models simply can’t…
Learning First, Technology Second in Practice
Topics: Assessment, Curriculum, Personalized Learning, Tools
New Strategies, Research and Tools for Student Success
Product code: EEENEW
ISBN: 9781564848383
Expected publication date: 05/2020
Topics: Tools, Standards, Curriculum, Professional learning
Length: 250 pages
With imagination and the right apps, students learn — and can prove it!
05/03/2019
Topics: Assessment
In the classroom as in court, it’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove you know.
And for generations of students and teachers, test scores have provided evidence of learning.
…
Customize learning with Google Forms
08/31/2018
Topics: Advocacy, Assessment, Corporate innovation, Education leadership, Personalized Learning, professional learning, Standards
We know that students do not all learn the same way. Some need a great deal of repetition to learn new material while others can see it once and have it down. Some need absolute quiet to learn while others feel uncomfortable with too much stillness. One might prefer reading while another…
Ensure equity in your BYOD classroom
01/25/2018
Topics: Assessment, BYOD, Parent engagement
The bring your own device (BYOD) movement in K-12 schools has skyrocketed over the past five years. In fact, about 83 percent of U.S. school districts have policies…
Turn your classroom into a personalized learning environment
09/28/2019
Topics: Assessment, Online learning, Personalized Learning, Standards, Video
By now you’ve probably heard of personalized learning, which tailors instruction, expression of learning and…
5 mini-keynotes (and student performers) provide a dose of inspiration
06/14/2017
Topics: 1:1, Assessment, Augmented reality, BYOD, Coding & robotics, Computational Thinking, Digital Citizenship, Digital storytelling, Flipped learning, Gamification, Gaming, ISTE Conference & Expo, Makerspaces, professional learning, Technology infrastructure, Tools
This year’s EdTekTalks at ISTE 2017 will feature edtech thought leaders who will share their creativity and insights in a series of mini-keynotes.
Add student presenters from…
Artificial intelligence has infiltrated our lives. Can it improve learning?
06/14/2017
Topics: 1:1, Assessment, Assistive and adaptive technologies, Augmented reality, BYOD, Computational Thinking, Curriculum, Gamification, Gaming, Makerspaces, Mobile learning, Personalized Learning, professional learning, Project-based learning, Robotics, STEM & STEAM, Technology infrastructure, Tools
When third grade teacher Brad Upshaw brought an Amazon Echo into his classroom, students spotted it immediately. Like reporters at a press conference, they swarmed the device and began shouting out questions.
“It was plugged in behind my interactive…