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How to ensure edtech ROI? Ask these 4 questions

eSchool News

Consider your district, schools, departments, and educators, and ask the following four questions at a team meeting to ensure you’re all on the same page and experiencing these challenges and solutions with common understanding. To explore how to increase the return on investment (ROI) of education technology, let’s take an inquiry approach.

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Review: 3 Best Online Learning Tools to Boost Remote Instruction

EdTech Magazine

For K–12 education, it’s no longer a question of whether online learning is here to stay but, rather, how can we make it better for our teachers and students? Even before the pandemic, the situation in many areas demonstrated the potential for the meteoric growth of online learning.

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An Active Reading Strategy for Any Learning Landscape

Catlin Tucker

I could not answer a single question about the content of what I read. In their new book, Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making , my friend, Jay McTighe , and his co-author, Harvey Silver , write about an active reading strategy that encourages students to engage with texts before, during, and after reading.

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Epiphany Learning updates personalized learning tool

eSchool News

The Learning Inventory has been changed from a question, word-based format to an image-only format. Now picture and audio friendly, version 2.0 encourages young learners to upload their own sound clips and photos, and attach them to goals they create. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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Tips for Designing an Online Lesson Using the 5 Es Instructional Model

Catlin Tucker

How can we keep them learning remotely? What strategies and technology tools can teachers leverage to take their traditional classes online? I have fielded multiple questions about the best ways to engage students and leverage online learning tools if schools close for a period of time. PrepOnlineLesson.

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

Faculty Focus

Although Lightboard videos have also been useful in traditional brick-and-mortar settings for students as just in time review after classroom sessions (Schweiker, Griggs, Levonis, 2020), online learning presents a different challenge because the instructor is not available in real-time to answer questions or elaborate on difficult concepts.

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5 ways to integrate gamification into your classroom

eSchool News

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. Other question types include fill-in-the-blank, true or false, drag-and-drop, and matching.