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6 Ways the Pandemic Transformed Schooling — But Will It Last?
08/18/2021
Topics: Assessment, digital equity, Global collaboration, Personalized Learning
After nearly a year and a half of pandemic-related disruption, going back to school this year will look unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. And that’s a good thing — or at least it should be.
Remote…
5 Tips for Checking Student Understanding in a Virtual Classroom
03/22/2021
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
06/01/2021
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…
Inclusive Learning 365
Topics: Assessment, Curriculum, Personalized Learning, Tools
Edtech Strategies for Every Day of the Year
By Christopher Bugaj, Karen Janowski, Mike Marotta and Beth Poss
ISBN: 9781564848857
Published: August 2021
Length: 408 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…
Leverage Student Cell Phones To Engage, Assess and Communicate
09/29/2021
Topics: Assessment, Parent engagement
When we talk about school devices, we usually mean laptops or tablets. But there is another device the most teenagers own and are adept at using that can also come in handy in the classroom — student…
Turn Your Classroom Into a Personalized Learning Environment
09/24/2022
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…