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APRIL 30, 2024

In 1995, I became the Educational Technology Coach for the Verona Area High School. ” After watching this VFT, our 3rd grade students teamed up with our high school robotics class to learn, play, and have some fun. Another fantastic virtual field trip is “Build the Change – Lego Virtual Field Trip.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Building quizzes, tests, and lesson plans from curriculum materials: Fran Bellas, a professor at Universidade da Coruña in Spain, recommends teachers use ChatGPT as an assistant in crafting quizzes, exams and lesson plans for classes.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Branch is known for his logical, easy-to-grasp course design, for his engaging assignments like The Armchair Anthropologist, and for the way his classes seem to fly by—which doesn’t happen by accident. In high school, I played sports, but another important part of my life was band and musical theatre. Source: Course Hero.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

These app essentials will help keep high school students engaged while learning language arts, and teach them how to form the arguments and enhance learning comprehension. Selecting the appropriate reading level, the teacher can assign individual readings to the student or the group. Forming the Arguments.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

On the backend, each learning assessment item in TEL courses, such as quizzes, assignments, and quiz questions, is aligned to metadata that indicates specific learning outcomes and Mastery Standards connected to the item, as well as a difficulty level. Giving Students Ownership.

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JULY 6, 2016

High school teacher MJ Linane used to describe his social studies class at Old Rochester Regional School in Mattapoisett, MA as “traditional.” Summative vocabulary quizzes were ushered out and replaced by highly integrated, engaging projects. The report was sponsored by AT&T Aspire.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here are some you can look into–and all online: Easy CBM Educreations –video a whiteboard explanation of how students are completing a task (app) Edulastic –formative assessments; work on any devices (app) Flip — record a video question from your desktop; add attachments; students respond from the app with their answer Flubaroo (app) (..)

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

high school students have been quick to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), with 46 percent saying they use AI tools to help them with their school work. Rather than relying on this score alone, his teacher called him to discuss the assignment. Use AI to develop games and quizzes aligned with the school curriculum.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.).

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AUGUST 1, 2017

It’s a student response system that allows teachers to make quizzes that students can take on their device. And even when we do poorly on our Socrative quizzes, we can take solace in knowing, as does Socrates, that “true knowledge exists in knowing that we know nothing.”. Have you ever tried to pick up a high schooler’s backpack?

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Kim Lewis, a middle and high school Spanish teacher in a rural district in upstate New York, explained how she uses Microsoft Teams to facilitate student collaboration and offer opportunities to practice problem-solving skills in groups. It’s very informal,” Fine says of her efforts to measure student progress with Google Drive.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

Sara Stringer, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, has a list of great websites for high school students. I don’t post enough about high school so I’m thrilled with her article: Some students study more productively in groups, working with their peers. More for high school. Subject Focused.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Back then, many were speculating that schools would reopen in a few weeks. So Boyle, who is a secondary school principal at Dalian American International School, located on China’s northeastern coast, let teachers email assignments during the first few weeks out and skip most instruction. I’m not being rude.

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MARCH 21, 2019

The latest national data reports that while a growing number of students graduate high school, college enrollments are decreasing. High schools are attempting to fill that gap by offering financial literacy classes that teach how to balance finite income from a job against infinite needs and wants. I have a good job.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Core Features: Teachers can create and share assignments. Although it is most frequently used to create, collect and offer feedback on assignments (which multiple students can work on at once), Google Classroom also has tools like. Core features: Teachers can create and share assignments. Students can collaborate online.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

High school English teacher John Fallon is what you might call an early adopter. Exploring New Worlds Narrative digital games aren’t just for high school students. For the read-alouds, students were assigned to groups of four based on reading ability—but not as you might expect.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2016

The newly added Assessments tool gives educators full control to create, distribute, and assess custom quizzes, tests, and homework assignments directly within the platform. High school students taking VHS ’ U.S. History courses can now receive college credit at Quincy College. History courses.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

The same study also captured responses from 1,000 K-8 students, of whom 89 percent said play made them “more excited” to go to school. When I’m testing a game, I have no way of knowing if it's going to be blocked by the school’s servers,” Angie says. I’ve planned my class around a game, only to find that the website’s been blocked.

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APRIL 28, 2020

In 2019, after moving into a position teaching Algebra I and II at a high school in a new district, I began to search for a solution. By assigning units in Khan Academy that we had already covered prior to the closing of our school, I’m incorporating many of the research-based practices discussed here.

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JUNE 8, 2022

This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Two products, geared primarily for the academic market, cover the topics of human anatomy and chemistry, while a third resource combines multiple science topics and can be used as refreshers in introductory college science courses or as a basic science learning tool in high schools.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Augustana College in Illinois received increased student requests for academic accommodations, primarily for extended time on exams and quizzes, says Kam Williams, director of disability services. And some even institutions that didn’t see a rise in formal requests for accommodations have worked to make online materials more accessible.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Have a listen: Key Takeaways: Urgent Need for Computer Science Educators : There exists a significant shortage of computer science technology educators, particularly in middle schools, where STEM education is crucial. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. They did it medium.

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JUNE 5, 2019

. “…on average, students’ achievement scores declined over summer vacation by one month’s worth of school-year learning…” ( Brookings ). Think about what students don’t like about school. Or, have high school students access the GCFLearnFree Work and Career activities. Activity Suggestions.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Students have been placed into their classrooms on Raz-Kkids, and now that the initial testing to determine reading levels is done, teachers are able to assign books and customize assignments for their students. Describe how you used the product: Each week I choose two books for the students to read and then complete the quizzes.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

This is my third year teaching at William Penn High School in the Colonial School District in New Castle, Delaware. The position was more widely assigned out of necessity after state budget cuts, and currently, there is no law that explicitly states how many students may be enrolled in an inclusion class like mine.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I first learned about it from Students LEAD (Learn, Explore, Advocate Differently), an online course developed by the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation , with input from middle and high school students, to help learners understand and verbalize their individual strengths, preferences and needs when it comes to learning and working.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If it sounds like a typical chemistry lesson at any school in the country, in some ways it is. Olivia is currently enrolled part-time in one of the most unique high school models in the country. The challenging thing is the social aspect,” Olivia says of her school, before describing herself as a little shy.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

Courses about Canvas, the district’s learning management system, explored how to create pages in the system, how to design quizzes and how to submit grades. Others dove into tools such as Edgenuity, Seesaw, ELQA and Florida Virtual School. Mike Slowinski, the principal at Menasha High School, in Menasha, Wis.,

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Educational Shows For High School. There is probably an educational show for every classroom subject in high school. From learning about history to animal husbandry, television can be a great learning asset in every high school classroom. Even watching the news in class can help with the learning experience.

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MARCH 23, 2018

I entered my junior year of high school without a Facebook account. But for some students whose class assignments and discussions are tied to the social network, it’s not as simple as it sounds. She explains that the quizzes that can gather someone’s data usually show up on personal feeds, not on group pages.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The most high-achieving students would be funneled there, too, where they could do worksheets at their own pace and free up teachers to focus on everyone else. Taylor Hill, a student at Wheatley High School, would experience the change firsthand. Do they have a better life after high school? He said, ‘Imagine.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

In the sixteen years she’s taught high school English at Wilmington High School in Wilmington, Massachusetts, Lisa Desberg has never used Strunk and White. She says her school is literature-based—grammar is not “the essence” of English classes. But will she assign Strunk and White in the future?

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MAY 1, 2018

Depending upon the level of service subscribed to, students can view videos, take practice quizzes and exams, and get credit for classes passed through a proctored exam. Take quizzes and proctored exams available in your subscription. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Great stuff.

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MAY 23, 2018

While it offers many appealing pieces (homework assignment and grading, easy communication, and built-in metrics), one unique to Kiddom is their robust K-12 content library. Open your class timeline and select “New Assignment” Click the red Kiddom “ K ” icon to access the Library. What Kiddom users are saying.

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MARCH 28, 2017

Stickiness The CERCA framework also makes learning stick by allowing students to transfer their understanding to future assignments, across content areas. Ann Whitehair is an eighth grade English Language Arts teacher at Oakwood Junior High School in Oakwood, Ohio, as well as a National Board Certified Teacher.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. If students want to know how well they did in an assignment, they must read my feedback. Review all your reading quizzes (or any other small assignments).

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