6 X 10 Tools for the Classroom
Department of Innovation
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October
What is 6 x 10?
The Cheltenham School District Department of Innovation will be sharing 6 Ideas, thoughts, tools, resources, or concepts every month for the next ten months! Watch the short video, or peruse the list of topics that connect to ISTE Standards for students or teachers. We are hoping that you will find something useful to help you innovate your classroom!
Analyst
Educators understand and use data to drive their instruction and support students in achieving their learning goals
- Provide alternative ways for students to demonstrate competency and reflect on their learning using technology.
- Use technology to design and implement a variety of formative and summative assessments that accommodate learner needs, provide timely feedback to students and inform instruction.
- Use assessment data to guide progress and communicate with students, parents and education stakeholders to build student self-direction.
6 X 10 October
LinkIt!
LinkIt's Item Analysis reporting feature allows you to quickly analyze and compare item-level responses and performance across all questions, standards, or skills for a particular assessment to identify patterns in student responses and common errors on a class, teacher, school, or district level. Individual student item analysis reports can be customized for various purposes including: student feedback and parent-teacher conferences.
Google Forms - Quizzes
You can quickly assess your students' understanding with automatic and manual grading tools. Specify correct answers, points, and give feedback for correct and incorrect responses. Identify frequently missed questions that need further review in the response summary.
GimKit
Gimkit is a game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win.
Epic!
Epic! is the Leading Digital Library for Kids 12 & Under.
Instantly access 35,000 of the best books, learning videos, quizzes & more. Epic! is free for teachers - create your account today.
Padlet
Collaborate better. Be more productive.
Make beautiful boards, documents, and webpages that are easy to read and fun to contribute to.
SMART Assessments
Create formative assessments using SMART Notebook’s response 2 wizard. This feature supports the need for educators to effectively assess students in order to guide learning. Students access assessments by navigating to hellosmart.com on their mobile devices.
Creating a SMART Assessment Video
Creating and delivering a formative assessment in SMART Notebook