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Putting Technology in Its Place (NYTimes.com)
New technology provides sexy alternatives to older methods of instruction and assessment. In the same conference, I spoke about my “podcast year” — when, as a first year teacher, I discovered the joy of digital microphones. Every piece of creative writing was recorded, an activity that ate up entire class periods. By the time I reached a unit where it actually made sense to capture student voice (speeches), the kids were ready to fight me. I too had allowed myself to be distracted.
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InfoSource Learning
OVIEDO, FL -- July 14, 2008 -- InfoSource Learning announces that all school districts, state departments, and educational organizations can receive the SimpleAssessment for Student Technology Proficiency free of charge for all students.
What started as a promotion at this year’s National Educational Computer Conference (NECC) has blossomed into a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of students’ technology proficiency. This campaign also stems from the goal to assess 25 million students during the 2008/2009 school year as a means of celebrating the Company’s 25th anniversary.
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ISTE Classroom Observation Tool
The ISTE Classroom Observation Tool (ICOT) is a FREE online tool that provides a set of questions to guide classroom observations of a number of key components of technology integration.
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'MindLadder' suggests the future of assessment (eschoolnews)
Recent advances in technology and nearly two decades of research into how students learn have come together in a series of programs that could represent the future of assessment.
Developed by researcher Mogens Jensen, these online programs reportedly can map a student's behavior, both mentally and emotionally, and then suggest a highly customized solution for growth as the student develops academically.
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Project Rubric Generator
Make project rubric for your students in minutes.
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Learning With Technology Profile Tool (1997)
This profile tool will help you to compare your current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance technology. For each category, there is a description of the indicators and examples that fall along a continuum. There are three examples for each indicator.
Select the example that best describes your current practice, even though it may not represent your instructional goals. You may select only one example for each indicator.
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Making an Impression
After four years of work, this Wisconsin district’s effort in creating its own online assessment program is paying off for teachers, students and the bottom line.
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NCRTEC - Scoring Guide for Student Products
The Scoring Guide for Student Products was created to evaluate the content knowledge and the effective use of technology in communicating ideas and information that is evident in the products that students create with computers. Check out Using Scoring Guides vs. Rubrics to understand the scope of a scoring guide.
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Assessment Tools
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CEO Forum - Year 4 Report
Check out the CEO Forum's final report, the Year 4 Report: Key Building Blocks for Student Achievement in the 21st Century or take the K-12 interactive STaR assessment.
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Strategic Implications of an Educational Technology Assessment (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
A two-year research project on educational technology at the University of Washington yielded strategic implications for adoption of technology
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Assessing Technology Planning (4Teachers)
4Teachers.org: Helping Teachers Integrate Technology into the Classroom.
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Assessment for Understanding: Taking a Deeper Look
Performance assessements go beyond traditional tests and serve as an important teaching tool.
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Dangerously Irrelevant: Why don't we do more pre-testing?
Millions of students regularly experience curricula and lessons that address content and concepts with which they’re already familiar. It’s not just the ‘talented and gifted’ kids; there are plenty of students who know the material in a particular learning unit before they even start. They’re just never given the chance to demonstrate their knowledge ahead of time. Nor do they have the opportunity to request to be pre-tested.
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Crossroads in Education: Issues for Web 2.0, Social Software, and Digital Tools
We are at a crossroads in educating our youth. Since public schools became the norm for education, we've identified curriculum based on the social, political, and economic need. We've classified what counts into tight packages of content in subject areas as math, science, social studies, and so on. Echoing Owen, Grant, Sayers, and Facer (2006), our approach to teaching and learning, including the order and how information is presented to students, the stages of assessment and what constitutes appropriate discussion on those subjects have also been tightly defined (p. 31). Advancements in technology, principally Web 2.0, social software, and digital tools, have challenged what it means to be educated and how we proceed to educate our youth in a culture where innovation and creativity, lifelong learning, personalization (my own learning space), and knowledge from and with the collective vie for a rightful place.
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The LoTi Connection
Many schools are already inundated with curriculum initiatives, state mandates, and technology infusion programs designed to improve instruction and promote student academic success. The last thing they need is another new initiative to add to a litany of reform efforts. What makes LoTi different?
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Curriculum and Assessment - EdTech Leadership
Curriculum and assessment are at the center of education. There are many ways that technology and large-scale change impact on these areas. This module provides an overview of emerging models for curriculum and assessment and links to many resources with related information and tools.
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Our School and Technology (TAGLIT)
Taking a Good Look at Instructional Technology (TAGLIT) is a set of assessments and reports designed to help school personnel understand the current status of technology use in their schools. TAGLIT includes surveys for school technology leaders, teachers and students.
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Now That Your Students Have Created Web-Based Digital Portfolios, How Do You Evaluate Them?
With the recent influx of new teaching and learning technologies, schools are implementing digital portfolios. The program at lona College developed a four-point rubric to evaluate web-based digital portfolios. A web-based portfolio, as used in this article, is a digital portfolio that incorporates web-based materials into teaching and learning. The three main elements evaluated were form (design and aesthetics), function and usability (ease of use), and components (presence and communication of the required samples). This rubric has allowed an objective, systematic, and reliable evaluation of...
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