20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom
Contributor: Kasey Bell Let’s make sure we are all on the same page when it comes to formative assessment, or what I like to refer to as, “Assessment FOR …
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First-Ever Mega Sessions Announced for 2019 Future of Education Technology Conference
Six Mega Sessions will bring FETC’s most popular presenters and topics to the keynote stage PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.―The National Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) has announced that …
Rapidly Changing the Education Mindset
Contributor: Dr. Rod Berger “In education, we have an industry that is filled with passionate people who don’t see their situations as jobs,” Ryan Schaaf says. “They see it as …
Putting the “U” in Education Technology
Contributor: Dr. Rod Berger About four years ago, Jeff Madlock and David Henderson were sitting at an Arkansas burger joint eating lunch and reminiscing about working on the radio, a …
The Case for Creativity in STEAM
Contributor: Sylvia Martinez Creativity is not just being artistic or having new ideas. As many schools are working to incorporate STEM and STEAM into the classroom, design and creativity are …
Words matter – gender bias in makerspaces
Contributor: Sylvia Martinez In a new study from Drexel University, researchers found that makerspace facilitators betray gender bias when talking about their students. Instructors primarily referred to male students as “geeks”, …
Making and ELL: Conversational Confidence
Contributor: Sylvia Martinez In a new study from Drexel University, researchers found that makerspaces help students learning English to feel more confident using their new language skills. Making Culture: A …
3 Ways Adobe Spark Promotes Creativity in the Classroom
Contributor: Monica Burns Earlier this year I had the chance to review the new research conducted by Adobe Education on creativity in the classroom. Their study is titled, Creative Problem Solving …
I Dare You to Double Academic Achievement
Led by: Sonny Magana, EdD Low-impact technology use in education is a wicked problem. Wicked problems are important, complex, multi-faceted, ill-structured, ill-defined, and as yet un-resolved problems that matter (Rittel …
Safe AND Informed: How Can Students Harness the Internet?
Led by: Desiree Alexander Our students are digital natives and do almost everything online. As educators, how do we discuss staying safe on the Internet with our upper elementary, middle …