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SMART Technologies Launches AI Assist in Lumio to Save Teachers Time

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Lumio by SMART Technologies, a cloud-based learning platform that enhances engagement on student devices, recently announced a new feature for its Spark plan. Designing effective quizzes takes timeespecially when crafting well-balanced multiple-choice questions with plausible wrong answers to encourage critical thinking.

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Technology Can Give All Students a Voice

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Technology Can Give All Students a Voice. Holly Clark believes there are three simple things teachers should be doing with technology in order to use it to its fullest: make student thinking visible, give every student a voice and easily share work. People used to ask me, ‘How do you know all this technology stuff?’

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Should Professors (a) Use Multiple Choice Tests or (b) Avoid Them At All Costs?

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Multiple-choice questions don’t belong in college. Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines. There are rules to writing good multiple-choice questions.

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Study Finds Classroom-Response 'Clickers' Can ‘Impede Conceptual Understanding’

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Millions of students in colleges and schools around the world take classes that require clickers, small remote controls that let students buzz in answers to multiple choice questions during class. There was one exception: students who had prior knowledge of physics concepts were not thrown off by the clicker quizzes).

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Test Grading Cloud available to all teachers for free

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Remark Test Grading Cloud is a hosted application for grading tests, quizzes and assessments. As many educators are now working remotely, the application can still be used to assist with your grading tasks using our Electronic Bubble Sheet technology.

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Digital Devices in the Classroom Can Hinder Long-Term Retention

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The question of whether or not to allow students to use smartphones, laptops and other technology in the classroom has been long-debated , and at times, heated. The students answered 126 multiple-choice questions in class on materials that were just presented. They also took periodic tests and a final exam.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’”

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