October 17, 2016
What's Up in the Tech World
Hi everyone!
I have several items for you to read about this week. I will be at Lower Campus on Tuesday and Wednesday and Upper on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. Please let me know if I can help you in any way.
GameOn World
GameOn World is a free geography game system developed by a teacher and his student here in Maine. GameOn World is played in a manner similar to Kahoot. The teacher projects the game questions on a screen and students reply from their phones, tablets, or laptops. One of the convenient features of GameOn World is that you don't have to create an account in order to start playing fun geography and history games with your students.
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Free Course on Formative Assessment
In this course you will learn about formative assessment, why its important, and how you can use web 2.0 technologies to seamlessly integrate formative assessment into your curriculum and instruction.
Plagiarism Article
I am thinking about designing an online lesson that students are required to complete if they have plagiarized a paper or other assignment. In the process, I discovered this article and thought it might have some helpful information for teachers.
Readworks.org
In order for your students to become strong readers, it is important they practice answering questions that require them to use evidence from the text. Find an article with text-dependent questions, a mix of multiple choice and written answer, to use in your classrooms. Each question set supports students' ability to identify explicit information in the text and enables them to make more complex inferences and conclusions based on that evidence in the text.