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Interactive Field Trips Offered to Educators for Black History Month, President’s Day, Women’s History Month and Earth Day

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In preparation for several upcoming significant historical, cultural and societal events, the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) has curated a list of live, interactive virtual field trips that educators can access to enrich discussions surrounding Black History Month, President’s Day, Women’s History Month and Earth Day.

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Rethinking student assessment: Tools and strategies for meaningful evaluation

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Here are five powerful resources that can transform how you evaluate student progress. For a history project, I ask students to create a Wakelet collection on the causes of the American Revolution. Wakelet: Wakelet is traditionally known as a curation tool, but its versatility makes it an excellent assessment platform.

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Tech Tip #138: 7 Ways to Evaluate Websites

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169 tech-centric situations—tech topics most important to your teaching as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations Today’s tip: Evaluate websites Category: Parents When students use the internet to research a topic, likely they get hundreds—or thousands—of possible resources. Is the website unbiased?

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Designing and Facilitating Learning for an Alternating A-B Hybrid Schedule

Catlin Tucker

For example, a social science teacher covering early American history could complement that work with a question like, “ What did it mean to be an American? A great example of an essential question for history or social science is “Whose story is it?”

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Building Better Rubrics: Empowering Learners Through Effective Rubric Design

Catlin Tucker

It helps students understand what is expected and how they will be evaluated. Rubric Criteria Analysis and evaluation of historical interpretations Step 2: Limit Your Criteria Teachers must limit the number of criteria they assess when using a rubric.

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ThingLink: Make Any Image Interactive

Catlin Tucker

In the past, I’ve had them explore and evaluate a range of infographics, so they can effectively design their own. When evaluating infographics, I ask them to identify the message/purpose of each infographic and identify the visual data that effectively supports that message/purpose. ThingLink is super versatile!

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Book Talks with Benny Launches as AI-powered Teacher’s Assistant

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Within Beanstack, admins can view the chat history for flagged log entries of their rostered students, including an analysis of student responses. This information allows educators to evaluate the conversation and make the final decision about how best to ensure reading accountability.

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