eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI-powered tools have entered the educational landscape, and theyve changed the way I teach writing–particularly persuasive writing. Example : Have students review AI scores and feedback before submitting their drafts for teacher evaluation, empowering them to address final issues.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

Examples include small-group brainstorming and “Mini Socratics” (small-group Socratic Seminars), gamification methods giving students points for each component they’ve completed in an assignment, small-group peer reviews where students reflect on each other’s ideas instead of correcting errors, and more.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Screening tools can help, allowing educators to get to know their students, find out where they're struggling and understand the key areas in which each student needs support. Checklist: 6 Questions To Ask When Evaluating SEL Screeners. But how to select a tool that best suits the needs of your school or district? Free SEL Resources.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2021

The prestigious CODiE Awards recognize the companies producing the most innovative education technology products across the country and around the world. A SIIA CODiE Award win is a prestigious honor, following rigorous reviews by expert judges including educators and administrators whose evaluations determined the finalists.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In an effort to help educators, parents and other education technology consumers make better choices about the products they use, Digital Promise spent the last year developing a “research-based design” product certification. ISTE (EdSurge’s parent organization) offers a “seal” for products that align to its pedagogical standards.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

But education students still need to work on lesson plans, and kids still need summer activities. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. train future educators to teach online, experts say. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19. By now, you can probably list them by heart.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It turns out that cultivating critical thinking skills can be difficult, even though many educators believe “that’s the point of what we’re training our students to be able to do,” says Ben Motz, a research scientist in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. The data is publicly available online.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2022

The urgent need to educate children at home created by COVID-19 lockdowns turbocharged already existing momentum, and analysts now expect edtech expenditure to reach an eye-watering $300 billion globally this year. Over the past decade, global investment in edtech has soared to new heights. This must change.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2016

K-12 educators and admins to earn university professional development units with badge and micro-badge courses. This partnership is one of the first to offer educators credit from a university in conjunction with professional learning aligned to competency-based micro credentialing. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2021

Nor are they made aware of the peer-review process in which scientists in the field who were not involved with the research critically evaluate the study design and conclusions. COVID-19 presents us with an opportunity to enhance our children’s scientific education in real time.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

It’s the largest portfolio initiative for teaching eportfolios in higher education that’s focused on what am I doing to improve student learning,” says Gerry Hanley, assistant vice chancellor at California State University’s chancellor's office. Teaching portfolios aren’t a new idea. “For

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In almost any school in the country today, you can find an app or program that claims to change education as we know it. As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

In today’s educational landscape, the emphasis on inclusion and creating the least restrictive environments for students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) has significantly reshaped classroom dynamics. This post is a Noelle Gutierrez & Catlin Tucker collaboration.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NCII is the premier site for rating intervention and assessment tools for education. Funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), NCII is comprised of national content and methodological experts who review assessments and interventions. Since 2018, NCII has recognized SpringMath’s strong classification accuracy.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

Cook, who is editor in chief at the experimental academic publisher Allegra Lab , ended up becoming a podcaster himself, and a fan of the growing number of podcasts made by other professors and educators. To research the volume, he interviewed 101 podcasters in education, asking them about their motivations and views on the craft.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 23, 2025

Curriculum assessment and evaluation projects may not always spark immediate enthusiasm, but a recent well-organized team project in our higher education program demonstrated the power of collaboration. The changes made as part of this academic assessment/evaluation project to enhance student success yielded significant improvements.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2017

Education technology providers dangle the promise of transforming classrooms and equipping previously disengaged students with the skills to become lifelong learners. In the case of education technology, this misguided approach rarely addresses the real needs of students and teachers. What is this tool designed to accomplish?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of online education, the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications online graduate programs (UF CJC Online) stands at the forefront of innovation and quality. While much of the template is standardized, certain aspects of the QM Course Review feedback necessitate customization for each course.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Scaffolded practice connects instruction to feedback When writing, students must engage in a multi-step process of goal-setting, planning, drafting, evaluating, revising, and editing. Assessing one’s own writing and providing feedback to peers both help to move students forward as writers.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 4, 2019

The Chromebook App Hub — a new resource to help teachers find and integrate Google educational apps in the classroom — will launch later this year, Google announced today at SXSW EDU 2019 in Austin, Texas. This hub is going to let us narrow our search to a niche that is specifically for educational technology.”. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

Collaborative Writing and Peer Review The adage “two heads are better than one” holds true in the realm of writing, as collaborative efforts and peer review can yield invaluable insights and constructive feedback.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2018

note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 13, 2019

What exactly is peer feedback and how is it being applied to lower grades? What is peer feedback? When used as an assessment strategy, peer feedback is much more than casual comments shared between classmates. It is the logical evaluation of one student’s work by another using predetermined characteristics and measures.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2021

LONDON, UK (June 28, 2021) – D2L Brightspace has been named the Best Solution for Students with Special Needs, Best Customer Experience in EdTech, and Best Remote Learning Experience Partner K-12/Higher Education of 2021 as part of the annual SIIA CODiE Awards. To learn more, visit D2L for K-12 or Higher Education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

Gaining confidence can be elusive to those of us in higher education, since academic culture can often subtract from our confidence, instead of building it up." Gaining confidence can be elusive to those of us in higher education, since academic culture can often subtract from our confidence, instead of building it up.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

According to the National Center on Education Statistics , the number of adults with children under the age of 18 reporting that “computers were always or usually available for education purposes” has risen to 94 percent. Over the past few decades, there have been great strides in this area. Audience engagement poses another conundrum.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Building an Effective Feedback System My quest to resolve issues around student engagement and agency led me to partner with two other educators who were struggling with related problems. Students use peer feedback to quickly revise their work and pose at least one question before I provide in-app feedback.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. Within an institution’s QEP, the assessment plan indicator has to meet acceptable criteria according to SACSCOC.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of online education, the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications online graduate programs (UF CJC Online) stands at the forefront of innovation and quality. While much of the template is standardized, certain aspects of the QM Course Review feedback necessitate customization for each course.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

If you’re an educator, the weeks leading up to state testing are likely some of the most stressful and demanding days in your year. At Edmentum , it’s our goal to put educators first in everything we do. We know that educators at all levels are responsible for making big decisions based on student evaluation outcomes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The student then has an opportunity to revise and resubmit the piece based on the combination of feedback from the assigned writing fellow, the ATA system, and peer review. Essentially, they provide a subset to the computer and they develop a model used to evaluate future papers.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2019

I subscribe to lots of technology-in-education forums (here’s a list of my trusted education advisors ) and attend as many webinars as I can. In response to this, peer feedback is growing in popularity as an approach that balances these two realities for the benefit of the student. Everyone wins. The teacher has more time.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Students can do a self-reflection upon finishing the draft, and also engage in anonymous peer-reviews of each other’s work. The system guides pupils through how to offer constructive feedback to their peers. Teachers can select how the feedback process will unfold.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. Within an institution’s QEP, the assessment plan indicator has to meet acceptable criteria according to SACSCOC.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

“I think this is going to be more heavily relied on, with less access to students in person, test scores, and reliable grades, at least for the spring semester and even going forward next year,” says Marci Miller, an attorney who specializes in education law and disability rights. Colleges want to support it, measure it, predict it.

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