TECH UPDATE: GradeProof with AI was rebranded as "Outwrite" with some functionality advancements, but the same great essentials. Check it out at Outwrite.com today. For the past several weeks, I have posted some introductory material on the Google Docs add-on: GradeProof. Proofreading Made Easy with GradeProof GradeProof in Detail, a Review This week, I invite … Continue reading Summing Up the GradeProof Tool
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GradeProof in Detail, a Review
GradeProof helps students see how they can help themselves and empowers teachers to guide content and help students celebrate success and gain confidence.
Proofreading Made Easy with GradeProof
As a wordsmith for 40 years and an English teacher since 1991, online grammar checking programs annoy me by all-too-often offering students a false reassurance. Popular programs which have everyone talking have, in my experience, missed glaring mistakes and suggested invalid corrections. They don't bring value to the table, even when they are paid programs. … Continue reading Proofreading Made Easy with GradeProof
Big Questions for Research
Video narrative on proposed research in immediate feedback through educational technology.
Asking the Right Questions
Even for informal settings, answering the questions of how to improve the classroom routine is real. Canned, scheduled professional development is not enough. Be your own researcher, sensitive to the feedback from your own students to all them to shine.
Failure Must Be an Option
While tempting to create a moderate classroom with a clear path for students, introducing the option of failure into the system allows children to persevere through difficult tasks and grow as a result.
Potential of Gaming for Civics Education
Game-based learning in civics, with the use of iCivic.org, enhances student learning in grades 4 through 8, but not in high school.
Learning Through Social Media
For a variety of reasons, social media can provide teachers with additional options for guiding students in responsive classroom-related dialogue using mobile resources.
New World Educators
The future of education depends upon migration from the delivery model to an adaptive, collaborative, multimedia, higher-order thinking, discovery experience in class, led by an educator who serves as a facilitator, lifelong-learner, guide, coach, and crafter of problems to engage learners in new challenges.
Fine-Tuning Feedback
Even with a highly knowledgeable group of learners, feedback and the immediacy of it makes a striking difference to a course, since a two-week delay in response can invalidate any positive impact of the process of peer evaluation.
EmpowerED 