Companies use ‘predictive analytics’ to guide student choices. When students register for classes each semester, they see a list of classes that are ranked on a scale of one to five stars, based on how useful each course is likely …
7 Tips For Writing Effective Multiple Choice Questions
One of the main ways that ExitTicket accelerates student achievement is by identifying misunderstandings while the learning is occurring, and engaging students in a conversation about those misunderstandings.
http://exitticket.org/7-tips-writing-effective-multiple-choice-questions/
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The Differences Between Digital Natives And Digital Immigrants
All of our young digital natives are being taught by “digital immigrants”, or, folks who didn’t grow up with the internet.
http://www.edudemic.com/digital-natives-digital-immigrants/
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9 Tools for Creating Great Animations
These web-based applications will have you creating animations in no time.
http://www.creativebloq.com/animation/tools-animations-10134750
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Presentation of the Week: Best of the Web 2013
Using Google Docs for 21st Century Learning
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Helping Teachers See the Benefits of Social Media
A great list of articles showing the benefits of using social media in education.
Tackk: Create Simple Webpages for Assignments and Announcements
Tackk is a free service that you can use to quickly create simple webpages. Using Tackk you can create a page to announce an important event, to advertise an event, or to show off your best digital works.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/10/tackk-create-simple-webpages-for.html
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New Tool Lets You Visualize Just About Anything in 5 Minutes (Maybe Less)
A new open source tool called RAW makes it remarkably easy to visualize any data that you can copy and paste from a table.
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The Best Web Publishing Tools and Services
The best tools, web apps and resources for any independent web publisher.
https://web-publishing.zeef.com/robin.good
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A Chromebook 101 for Teachers
A great introduction on Chromebooks, personal computers running Chrome OS as its operating system. The devices are designed to be used while connected to the Internet and support applications that reside on the Web, rather than traditional applications that reside …
A List Of 50+ Teaching Strategies To Jumpstart Your Teacher Brain
Teaching strategies are among the most important ingredients for highly-effective learning environments. Knowing the right teaching strategy for the right academic situation may not be a matter of expertise or training, but memory.
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/50-teaching-strategies-to-jumpstart-your-teacher-brain/
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Semi-automatic method for grading a million homework assignments
Organize solutions into clusters and “force multiply” feedback provided by instructors.
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Curate or Be Curated: The Coming Age of the Curation Economy
Raw data is growing at a rate we can hardly imagine — and it will only grow as devices and behaviors become more adept at raw-content creating. The Curation Economy is built on some important, but I would argue inevitable, …
8 Next-Gen Devices Students Will Be Using In A Couple Years
A great article and infographic profiling a handful of the next-gen tech devices students will be into in likely just a few years.
http://fluency21.com/blog/2013/10/12/8-next-gen-devices-students-will-be-using-in-a-couple-years/
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