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10 Powerful Project-Based Learning Engagement Strategies
Student engagement is key to motivation, persistence, and deeper learning. In addition to our recently featured 22 instincts that motivate a commitment of time and energy, here's 10 strategies to promote powerful project-based learning experiences.
Mastery Tracking: Measuring Specific Skills to Accelerate Student Learning
By: Jean Fleming. In order to move students from understanding to increased achievement and growth, teachers need to identify and utilize the instructional resources and strategies best suited to individual student needs.
Should Teachers Share Formative Assessment Results in the Classroom?
By: Ron Drabkin. Immediate feedback, sharing, and coaching can help to improve students’ attitudes, their aptitudes, and ultimately their achievement. Here is what sharing formative results can look like in your classroom.
From Formative Assessment to Tracking Student Mastery: The Road to Competency-Based Instruction
Mastery tracking, fed by formative assessment, is fundamental to competency-based learning and any attempt to personalize. Here, we dive into 10 reasons why it is so important.
How to Use LinkedIn to Build a Student Portfolio
Well-designed learner portfolios provide students an opportunity to chart their growth and tell their story. That's why every student should have a digital portfolio. A great place to start is on LinkedIn.
Every Student Should Have A Digital Portfolio
Well-designed learner portfolios provide students an opportunity to chart their growth and tell their story. Here's eight tools that schools are using to promote deeper learning by encouraging students to build a collection of personal bests.
Canvas: A Learning Management System Built for Educators
Canvas is a learning management solution that meets the specific needs of educators and students. It serves as a resource that is seamlessly integrated into one effective and efficient solution.
Edmodo: A Platform Redefining Learning
Edmodo is quietly, consistently positioning itself not just as the glue to hold your technology-enhanced learning initiatives together, but the rocket fuel that it will need to redefine what learning looks like now and in the future.
Schoology: Instructional Operating System Empowers Learning
Launched as a simple free social learning platform in 2010, Schoology includes enterprise features making it easier to create engaging content, design lessons and assess student understanding.
Parent-Managed Learner Profiles Will Power Personalization
Online profile management is becoming important in every aspect of life, it’s a new digital literacy competency that every young person must learn to exercise. That starts with empowering students and parents to take charge of education data with a portable learning profile.