Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Pinterest boasts more than 1,000 ideas about how students can self-evaluate their own learning. Over the course of their education, I estimate that K-12 students walk through the doors of approximately 40 teachers. How can we motivate students to want to evaluate their own learning? Clearly, the resources are plentiful.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2022

Its teacher-preparation program had already been using video-based feedback for seven years. Dr. Rebekah Ralph, instructor of educational technology and EdTPA coordinator, pivoted to using video to support teacher candidates who had little to no interactions in the field. Instructional coaching and observation.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

I asked a variety of questions about their perception of the instruction and assessment practices we had shifted to, the types of feedback they received and how they felt about the class. This was the toughest feedback I have ever received, but it helped me define the problem so I could figure out what to do about it.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Texthelp ®, a leading education technology company focused on helping learners of all ages and abilities improve their reading, writing, and math skills, today announced the launch of WriQ ®, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement tool. It provides them with their own dashboard of real-time feedback.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2023

As an Education Technology Specialist at one of Colorado’s fastest-growing districts, District 49, I was tasked 5 years ago with the responsibility to ensure our district complied with federal and student data privacy laws. Department of Education says “when possible.” For us, it was all about balance.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2024

Recommended Resources ISTE’s Advancing Edtech Evaluation and Selection page includes a set of user-friendly resources designed to help teachers and education leaders select the best edtech on the market. Convened an advisory group of experts in user experience design, learning design, equity and justice, and edtech product evaluation.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

From kindergarten through college, teachers know that writers need guided practice, substantive feedback, and opportunities for deep revision. From kindergarten through college, teachers know that writers need guided practice, substantive feedback, and opportunities for deep revision.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The university has created a way for automated software to give students in large STEM courses feedback on their writing in cases where professors don’t have time to grade hundreds of essays. Essentially, they provide a subset to the computer and they develop a model used to evaluate future papers.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As educational technology companies look to place learning science at the core of their products, there are three key steps to success: aligning their teams around education outcomes, building a feedback loop, and evaluating and validating your results.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

NEW YORK — AtomicMind , an education technology company that offers families a boutique coaching experience in the increasingly competitive college admissions landscape, today announced the launch of a unique technology platform. About AtomicMind.

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Technology Coaching Essay Feedback 241

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The situation is made even more challenging by the lack of suitable feedback mechanisms to help teachers understand who is struggling in class and to help them quickly find the root cause of the student’s challenges. Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Founded in 2016, Writable offers tools and templates that scaffold the writing and feedback process to help students become stronger writers. Teachers can select how the feedback process will unfold. The system guides pupils through how to offer constructive feedback to their peers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2023

As an Education Technology Specialist at one of Colorado’s fastest-growing districts, District 49, I was tasked 5 years ago with the responsibility to ensure our district complied with federal and student data privacy laws. Department of Education says “when possible.” For us, it was all about balance.

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Evaluation Feedback Communication Online Learning 189

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

has been a leader in implementing stringent supervision and high-stakes evaluation for teachers, these practices are part of a national education reform movement that seeks to standardize teaching in an (ultimately ineffective) quest to boost student test scores. My experience is not unique: While D.C.

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Coaching Teachers Evaluation Feedback 218

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

Using a detailed process we developed in-house, the two departments get feedback from all stakeholders—classroom educators, IT infrastructure leads, purchasing decision-makers—which helps them decide whether to keep or scrap a given tool. But since we put it into place, we haven’t wasted a cent on education technology.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction. In 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed $12 million to Khan Academy to support the continued development of the organization in grades 3-12 math. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a Chalkbeat funder.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In addition, partner with the education technology provider in developing a plan that will meet your district’s curriculum and strategic goals. Share these success criteria when evaluating resources so there is a mutually agreed upon goal that both parties are working toward.

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eLearning Evaluation Math Feedback 167

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

ChatGPT adds to the suite of AI tools that might be encountered in an ELA classroom, along with automated essay scoring, writing evaluation and feedback. As with all emerging technologies, it is critical to understand how we relate to these technologies in order to best leverage them for student learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Don’t just use video for lectures; the format can also be used to welcome students to your class, provide feedback (much preferred by students to print feedback) and walk through assignments. Fourth, be brave and conduct a mid-term, anonymous evaluation of your course. Second, you can’t employ too much video.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Finally, the Commissioner of Education assessed the state and district reviewer evaluations, public feedback and cost of the materials before giving approval. Cambium Learning® Group is the education essentials company, providing award-winning education technology and services for K-12 markets.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In recent years, K-12 tech innovation news has made it clear that educational technology has become an integral part of classrooms, influencing teaching methodologies, student interactions, and the overall educational landscape. As with all innovations, there are positive and negative effects of technology on education.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

Recently, EdSurge talked with ISTE researchers who managed Teacher Ready, a research-driven project that (1) provides edtech decision-makers with tools to validly and reliably evaluate edtech, and (2) helped expand the ISTE Seal of Alignment certification by integrating user experience and product usability components. Is it easy to use?

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Evaluation Learning Outcomes Feedback Achievement 172

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Artificial intelligence holds significant potential to address key challenges in education, particularly in enhancing student engagement and facilitating personalized learning. AI's ability to provide instantaneous, tailored feedback can revolutionize how educators evaluate and enhance academic performance.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

EdSurge connected with Wieman to find out, and to hear about his more recent efforts to improve how teaching evaluations are done at colleges to make them more useful — and more equitable. One thing you’ve focused on more recently is teaching evaluation at colleges. The things that almost every university uses is student evaluations.

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Teaching Lecturing Evaluation Teaching Evaluations 202

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

Romano was able to use reflection and feedback mechanisms to develop and evaluate students’ collaboration skills. Romano faced a problem familiar to many educators—he wasn’t sure how to collect evidence that would measure student progress for some of his goals. So, what changed for these educators?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments. Caitlin Smith, the director of technology, has been in the K-12 educational technology space for 10 years.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Nonprofit Digital Promise agrees, and on August 9, the nonprofit launched an effort to collection and evaluate quality examples of how companies conduct and research in designing and improving their products. It’s the most honest feedback you can get.". Students] don’t have a filter. If they don’t like something, they just tell you.

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Evaluation Math Feedback Science 166

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2016

Education technology experts discuss various solutions to the ‘broken’ process of ed-tech purchasing. Greater transparency on pricing will help, but school systems also must improve how they evaluate new ed-tech products. “We It’s very hard for us to pull people together.”.

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Schools Evaluation Discussions Feedback 183

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Deploying these tools in that way assumes that quick, iterative feedback drives critical thinking — when what students really need are deep conversations that will pull them in unexpected directions, Aguilar says. That teachers’ confidence or anxiety about using the technology impacted their thoughts about AI. The main findings?

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Ethics Teachers Laboratory Writing 204

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Here are three key expectations that are redefining modern education: Interactive Learning : Students expect dynamic, interactive lessons that incorporate multimedia elements and real-time feedback. Flexibility : Many students prefer a hybrid model that combines online and in-person education.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 141

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

The current wave of education technology has been fraught with pedagogically unsound replications of the worst aspects of teaching and learning. Education Technology and the Bloom’s Basement Problem Ask any Silicon Valley engineer about Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain, and you’ll be met with a blank stare.

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Textbooks Evaluation Feedback Languages 147

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. Examples of survey items used by students to evaluate teachers via the Network for Educator Effectiveness. This teacher makes lessons interesting.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2024

Imagine being a district leader tasked with selecting the ideal educational technology tools from a sea of thousands of options. Additionally, feedback from teachers and students can provide insights into the effectiveness of current tools and identify gaps in the current edtech suite. How do you decide?

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2020

Discussions focus on providing constructive—rather than critical—feedback to peers and instructors, and implementing digital best practices such as establishing daily checks-ins, setting well-defined agendas before each meeting, and clearly defining participation roles. As STEM educators, we believe in the power of learning and iterating.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2019

Sessions like these are often a firehose of show and tell with no time to reflect and evaluate. After: Evaluating and Sharing Your Learning When the session is over, it is easy to not fill out an evaluation. If presenters get feedback that they need to be more transparent on equity issues, some of them will take this to heart.

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Evaluation Feedback Participation English 164

Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

They can be used to provide feedback, co-author, narrate and even host asynchronous meetings. VoiceThread Panel: The Future of Education in a Post-COVID World In a recent conversation, Steve Muth, Co-Founder and President of VoiceThread, explained more about his vision. Teacher feedback on a student's term paper using VoiceThread.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan provided strategies and resources for teachers to use in their classrooms, and through this assignment, he learned a variety of skills including how to design compelling professional learning opportunities, how to find and evaluate sources and how to communicate his findings clearly to an audience.

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