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Formative Assessment: Bridging the Research - Practice Divide | Canadian Education Association (CEA)
“Teach, mark, move on: that’s the old paradigm. Today’s classrooms have changed. It is important to show the students where they are, how to improve, and where to go from here… It’s no longer about “this is your mark and that’s the end of the story”. ~ Secondary Teacher
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To help students prepare for the spring exam period, McMaster's Student Success Centre is offering a free Exam Skills Workshop and top-five list of study tips to help you study smarter, not harder:
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With this all in mind, I have created a list of tips that I believe we need to keep in mind when setting up a blended learning environment with our learners.
Silke Larsen's curator insight,
May 25, 2014 1:05 AM
The list of tips seems helpful
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I love using Google Forms in my classroom to collect student work, and I know many others do as well. However, did you know that you could validate the data that you collect?
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Now that the school year is almost finished, it comes the time for auto-reflection. These are moments when you sit down alone and start thinking about what has and has not being achieved during this year; what worked well and what did not. It is a kind of self assessment done for the purposes of growing professionally.
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A recent well-attended seminar on the practicalities of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) included presentations on MOOCs in English Common Law (ECL) and Creative Programming (CP).
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It is suggested to pay due attention to simple mistakes that can ruin your presentation.
Do you remember the last time you came across a presenter who breathed excellence into a presentation with his remarkable skills. Well, chances are quite rare! Or in that case, you can probably recollect the bad ones comparatively easily. This is largely because most of us are afraid of public speaking.
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It seems some pupils have more creative imaginations than others, but the importance in fostering an imaginative mind is crucial for developing minds – and schools are the best place to help children to actively develop inventiveness.
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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are still pretty new but more and more universities, platform providers and publishers are beginning to create MOOCs to raise their profile and showcase high-quality materials. But there is a risk that reputations can take a serious hit if materials and data are being used incorrectly, or without permission. The time to make sure your institution is squeaky clean is NOW, says David Kernohan, Jisc programme manager, e-learning.
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This collection of blogs, articles, and videos from Edutopia aims to help teachers deploy social media tools in the classroom to engage students in 21st-century learning.
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Different teaching styles appeal to different types of students. Despite popular opinion, I know folks who do really well with lecture-based courses. Perhaps they’re just really well adapted to how most of our educational system works. Or perhaps they’re just some of the few who do really well with that instead of a more hands-on …
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Looking for a comprehensive "must-have" eLearning checklist for your next eLearning Course Design project? This is a checklist that every eLearning professional should have on hand, especially since there are so many steps involved in the eLearning course design process.
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“Students in inverted classrooms need to have more space to reflect on their learning activities so that they can make necessary connections to course content” (Strayer, 2012).
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Flipped classrooms are getting plenty of headlines and attention lately in educational circles. While conceptually they sound great the reality is that they require a great deal more effort on behalf of both students and teachers. The need for teachers to develop quality material outside class time is a genuine drain on their limited time …
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An essential part of online research is the ability to critically evaluate information. This includes the ability to read and evaluate its level of accuracy, reliability and bias. When we recently as
Michael Westwood's curator insight,
April 9, 2014 10:25 AM
The practical steps described here could be adapted into a very useful language lesson for advanced language learners preparing to enter university. 
Deborah Rinio's curator insight,
April 9, 2014 11:28 AM
Evaluating information is a critical life skill. Without sufficient practice, our students will not internalize this skill, and will not remember it from lesson to lesson. Talk to you librarian today about integrating the process of evaluating information into your research projects and lesson plans today! 
liz deskins's curator insight,
April 29, 2014 9:09 AM
Something m ost librarians already do; but good to remind us about it!
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So. You've tried flipping your class, and it didn't go well. Or you've heard about flipping and want to try the approach, but you're pretty sure it won't work in your school. Don't give up yet -- wit
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9 Steps To Scaffold Learning For Improved Understanding
Scaffolding is a critical teaching strategy that can support students struggling with a concept, or those that have mastered it. In short, to “scaffold” something is a metaphor that describes the process of supporting students so that they can achieve learning goals in lieu of content deficiencies.
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We live in the digital age – but a fifth of the UK population do not have access to the internet. How can we help everyone to get online and enjoy the benefits that connectivity can offer? Click on the image to download The Carnegie UK Trust’s 7 Digital Participation Tests and 6 Case Studies of successful local projects that are tackling digital exclusion in new and innovative ways.
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A new study offers evidence that simple and inexpensive changes to existing courses can help students learn more effectively.
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Here's the second part of the interview I did on literacy, which focuses on various challenges with teaching information literary, both now, and in the future. What types of challenges do you face ...
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Wikipedia is meant to be a starting point, not a final source of knowledge. It is permanently incomplete and evolving, with continuous formal and informal review. Delving into that process, learners can explore critical reading, digital literacy and deep questions of knowledge. Martin Poulter, Jisc Wikimedia ambassador, gives us his top ten tips for educators using Wikipedia…
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Fact: Teachers never have enough time. How many times have you said, or heard colleagues declare that there are just not enough hours in the day? There is so much to cram into the typical school day for teachers: marking; assessment; meetings; planning, and that’s before you get the chance to actually teach, eat and sleep. Organisation of time is essential, so these five ways to get up to speed with your teaching life, adapted from Steve Cody, can help improve the teaching day:
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