eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2015

Students who see exam content before they take the test obviously have an unfair advantage over others, and responses to such questions are not a valid measure of their knowledge. If a sufficient number of questions are exposed, test results are stripped of fairness and validity and are rendered meaningless.

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Exams Testing Fairness Knowledge 260

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It is well-documented and often repeated in teachers’ professional development that the right type of co-learning can deepen understanding and long-term knowledge gains. The critical question is, “ What is the right type of co-learning ?” How do we evaluate their knowledge? Sometimes group projects work well.

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Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 337

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

The question is, are we going to have people equipped to fill those jobs?” Ultimately, the group’s common goal is to ensure students aren’t lagging behind a rapidly evolving workforce that is increasingly centered around AI knowledge. This isn’t the age of Rosie the Robot taking over jobs–there will be jobs.

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Skills Laboratory Education Fairness 334

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This may beg the question of the need for school board policies around Generative AI. As pioneers in the educational sector, we should proactively engage with policymakers and advocate for responsible AI usage that aligns with our values of integrity, fairness, and inclusivity.

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Academic Integrity Ethics Assignments Evaluation 306

eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

I’ve often found that the best classrooms are those that carefully balance timeless knowledge with innovations that push boundaries. Related : 8 questions for educators as they use assessments to support student learning Designing fair and inclusive tests for non-native speakers

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Metacognitive Skills Critical Thinking Fairness Testing 300

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Having been in education for more than thirty years, I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked the question, “How can I help my children retain what they learned? That is, the best of access to knowledge and the best of recall. We might wonder how this can be, but it is a fairly common phenomenon. It wasn’t always so.

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Learning Fairness Knowledge Testing 239

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2019

If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to drive deeper student thinking and learning, consider these 8 questions from Section A of the 4 Shifts Protocol. If you’re not where you want to be yet, pick a couple of questions and select your desired answers instead (e.g., Domain Knowledge. Related Posts.

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Questions Fairness Coaching Critical Thinking 105

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Claim-Evidence-Question” routine. Questions in this phase could include “What does this remind me of?” ” The me phase asks participants to reflect on their personal connection to what they’ve observed and thought.

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Metacognitive Skills Discussions Art History 360

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2017

CS50 assumes no prior knowledge or skill in computer programming, yet it’s extremely demanding. When he first signed up for CS50, it is fair to say he was not in the habit of choosing the most demanding courses on campus. By examining his success, we can learn some important lessons about effective teaching.

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Teaching Education Learning Fairness 257

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 6, 2019

If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to have students drive more of their own learning, consider these 9 questions from Section C of the 4 Shifts Protocol. If you’re not where you want to be yet, pick a couple of questions and select your desired answers instead (e.g., Let me know what questions you have.

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Questions Fairness Coaching Students 100

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” We have a larger population. A student on the opposing side retorted: “No way.

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History Social Studies Education Knowledge 217

eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

I’ve often found that the best classrooms are those that carefully balance timeless knowledge with innovations that push boundaries. Related : 8 questions for educators as they use assessments to support student learning Designing fair and inclusive tests for non-native speakers

Metacognitive Skills 255

Metacognitive Skills Critical Thinking Fairness Testing 255

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

A contributing factor to this increasing level of disengagement is the narrow focus on curriculum coupled with high-stakes testing as the primary means to measure student knowledge and skills. These values may show up embedded into the logic of questions, as well as on expectations of speed of completion.

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Education Testing Feedback English 303

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

One of the obligatory questions in the interview process is What will you do if you disagree with the Governor? I think that there are some big questions that we have to ask as a state after the Governor’s school funding veto. 5 big questions for the Iowa Council on Educator Development. Budgets reflect policy priorities.

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Questions Schools Fairness Failure 111

Catlin Tucker

MAY 6, 2025

Thats what pushed me into the IB system and concept-based curriculumwhere knowledge, skills, and understandings all interconnect. Ruba: Great question. Ruba: Instead of stating the understanding, we pose it as a question. Ruba: Eventually, we ask conceptual questions like: How are challenge, growth, and character connected?

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Blended Learning Coaching Students Universal Design 195

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2024

Key positives: Tailor personalized learning paths Adapt testing to challenge students at their appropriate level of knowledge Provide instant feedback Reduce bias Analyze data quickly to find learning patterns and trends. Identify plagiarism or cheating But there are drawbacks educators must watch for and may take time to resolve.

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Testing Plagiarism Ethics Fairness 174

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And people are taking a fresh look at the question of whether everyone is getting education fairly. Wolfram Research is a powerhouse of mathematics software, making Mathematica, which is used by scientists, and Wolfram Alpha, a kind of search engine for quantitative information that they call a “computational knowledge engine.”

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Math Writing Reading Fairness 165

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

And the courses they put on Coursera were done mainly as goodwill outreach—free offerings to help spread knowledge to those who couldn’t afford a campus experience. One question now is whether the new terms will convince other Coursera partners who are not currently offering degree programs on the platform to start doing so.

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Fairness Knowledge Questions Science 171

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

All scholarship recipients created videos that answered the scholarship program’s question for this year: “Please describe the skills you have learned in your VHS Learning course that you feel will be helpful in college or your career, and why.”. Ruizhe (Fair) Shen from the Fontbonne The Early College of Boston in Massachusetts.

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Learning Fairness High School High School 221

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Teachers want fair funding for all schools. Brick and mortar charter schools have been known to use questionable (and unethical) recruitment techniques and “counseling out” poor standardized test-takers. It’s time to return the education field to the educators. What do teachers want?

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Teachers Schools Disabilities Fairness 214

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

and globe accelerate toward the use of renewable energy to fuel power grids, there is an acute pressure to build an educated workforce and a knowledgeable public who will understand and support these changes. There exist major gaps in teacher knowledge and the availability of curricular tools to support this type of learning.

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Distance Learning Hybrid Learning Accessibility Culture 362

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Required to understand the game’s big picture because few are based on common knowledge. In my classes, students must qualify to use Minecraft by answering a series of questions I pose. How students answer this question is always interesting. The surprising part is no one minds these questions. We all have a great time.

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Writing Reading Teaching Evaluation 199

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Be comfortable in your knowledge of all facets of digital citizenship. Teachers will actively collaborate, share knowledge, provide constructive feedback to classmates, and publish digitally. Everything is online.

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Teaching Internet Authentic Assessment Writing 195

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

Don’t feel like you have to know the answer to every question. This not only makes submitting work painless (and less likely to get lost) when submitted to a public forum, students benefit from each other’s knowledge. If you ask students to demonstrate their knowledge with technology, be open to their suggestions.

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Skills Failure Learning Knowledge 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

For questions, email askatechteacher@gmail.com. You will actively collaborate, share knowledge, provide constructive feedback to classmates, publish digitally, and differentiate for unique needs. You will actively collaborate, share knowledge, provide constructive feedback to classmates, publish digitally, and differentiate for needs.

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Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 31

eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

To my knowledge, what the examples I’m seeing are hybrid or online, and it makes a ton of sense because it’s not like these students who are coming back in are typically going back into a regular mainstream school in the traditional district. And I think there’s no question that when you think. You’re with and.

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Learning Discussions Gamification Technology 130

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 3, 2024

Then you ask what you believe is a simple question all students should know the answer to … and … nothing. Just restate the question again? Maybe they didn’t hear the question. Why aren’t they answering my question? I invite any and all discussion and questions from students during this time. Absolute crickets.

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Knowledge Students Questions Fairness 143

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 4, 2020

Note also that the very first questions in Section A pertain to Domain Knowledge and Deeper Learning. 8 questions that help get at deeper thinking and learning. 12 questions that help get at robust technology infusion. Starting with Sections A or B helps us center our instructional work on deeper, meaningful learning.

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Fairness Knowledge Questions Testing 112

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Accomplishing this so it serves educational goals isn’t as much about knowing how to use the tools as constructing knowledge in an organic, scalable way. Doing a project that uses Google Docs or MS Word doesn’t mean students will apply that knowledge to the year-end PARCC and SB tests. Internet use. Problem solving.

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Skills Students Plagiarism Knowledge 155

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

For instance, it now groups student users who are at the same level of mastery together, to make competition more fair. And rather than earning points based on the number of subject-matter questions they answer correctly, they advance based on their performance at other gameplay tasks. In a game, you are 100 percent OK with failing.

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Gamification Motivation Game-Based Learning Math 199

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

ChatGPT was therefore prompted to, “Write a well-written multiple-choice item on equivalent fractions, targeting Depth of Knowledge level 3 (strategic thinking).” My question to the class was then: Do you agree with the output of ChatGPT? ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence tool that was released in November 2022.

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Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

They also appear to be confident in their knowledge of how to reach their career goals and the accompanying price tag. Cool to Be Kind Kids reported a fairly sunny outlook on their relationships and communities, responding positively to questions about how they treat others and their feelings about their community.

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Fairness Participation Science High School 179

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

You will actively collaborate, share knowledge, provide constructive feedback to classmates, publish digitally, and differentiate for unique needs. fair use/public domain. Participants will respond to the reviews of their classmates with comments, suggestions, personal experience, and questions. We wrote the books. Certificate.

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Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 158

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

The Magical World of Science I should point out that I’m not the only one asking these questions. One day, during class, I posed a question to my student on a topic everyone was familiar with: cell phones. Why should my students care about it? And what would make them care enough to see themselves as scientists one day?

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Science Math Students English 161

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Survey respondents were overwhelmingly extremely negative in their response to every question, according to a summary of the survey results the released Monday, ahead of Tuesday. They replaced the familiar, and easier, Oregon state reading and math tests, the Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or OAKS.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 152

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

Students were energetic, interested, asked great questions, engaged in excellent collaboration. Students got lots of questions and suggestions, both from classmates and from me, as they gave in-class presentations and discovered proofs in teams. Students play the game with this knowledge in front of them. But What About Grades?

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Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 175

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

The report revealed that school connectedness was low among racial and ethnic minorities, LGBQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Questioning, Other Non-Heterosexual Identity) and female students. More simply, students have abilities, experiences, backgrounds and knowledge that shape how they learn and develop new skills.

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Schools Disabilities Study Ethics 218