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Flipped Classroom 101: Challenges, Benefits & Design Tips

Catlin Tucker

Begin with a collaborative offline activity designed to pique student interest or get them generating questions about a topic. Alternatively, teachers can assess students’ prior knowledge with an individual task and collect useful data to inform their follow-up instruction. First, teachers need to create context.

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What data is necessary to help students succeed?

eSchool News

In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students?

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5 ways to integrate gamification into your classroom

eSchool News

Quizizz: Turn assessments into fun competitions Quizizz is my top choice for a gamification platform. It allows you to create or search pre-made question sets and host a variety of games that students can join. Students answer multiple-choice questions on their devices while seeing fun memes, leaderboards, and progress bars.

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Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers

Cult of Pedagogy

rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. ’ and then applying it to new knowledge.” To make the tents more useful, students are then asked to answer a retrieval question on the back of the paper and turn it in at the end of class.

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Florida district deploys new math tool

eSchool News

This data is presented to teachers in dashboard reports immediately available at the end of each session, and is incredibly valuable for teachers, who would otherwise have to administer time-consuming diagnostics to know where their students’ knowledge gaps lie. “In We didn’t know what the specific gaps were.

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When will assessments finally test deeper learning?

eSchool News

Technology is making the multiple-choice question obsolete. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) required high-stakes testing at many grades and quick turnaround of results to accommodate parental choice decisions. Can testing keep up? Gaming and simulations, especially, create all kinds of possibilities.

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6 tools for real formative assessment

eSchool News

Below are a handful of different tools and resources for formative assessments (ed note: these tools have not been endorsed or reviewed by eSM staff): Using Kahoot , educators can create learning games from a series of multiple choice questions to assess student understanding. They can add videos, images and diagrams.