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Welcome to the new home of the edTechCCPS blog. We have changed blogging platforms to bring you the reader a more refined experience. Come back here in August for amazing content. Until then check out the archives on the old blogging platform here.

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What is an LMS?

What is a LMS? What is an LMS and why should I use one? You may have heard the term LMS (Learning Management System ) talked about in meetings, or read about in the board docs or ACTS notes. Well, what is it? And more importantly, why are moving in this direction? An LMS is a learning management system that will provide a true one stop user experience for your teaching materials, assessment tools, projects, rubrics, learning outcomes, group conferencing, etc. The learning management system we have chosen to purchase is Canvas. Canvas is a large company that currently provides LMS functionality to many major universities, the Virginia Community College System, and the entire K-12 public school system in North Carolina. Canvas allows you to create assessments, manage instructional content, conduct group discussions or video chats/leave student feedback, create rubrics, and will auto grade your assessment materials. Canvas integrates with ...

Letting Go: Giving Students Choice

Choices, Choices, Choices! When you walk down the toothpaste aisle at your local grocery store, there are so many choices. Decades ago, you had two choices: Colgate and Crest. Now we have to choose between the brand and variety: cavity protection or whitening, gel or paste, mint or bubble gum, and so on. Our students are born in a day and age where they have numerous choices, and, with technology, they can research and find the best choice that suits their needs. Well, education should not be any different. Choice boards and student menus are excellent avenues that allow for student choice, but still give you, the instructor, an idea on how students are learning and mastering specific content. Choice Boards A choice board is a graphic organizer that allows students to decide how they will learn a concept or demonstrate mastery of content. Choice boards focus on students' interests, abilities, and needs. In the example below, you can see the s...

Re-Situating Hapara

Best Practices for Supporting Students Working in the Digital Real m When you hear people talking about “Hapara,” what comes to mind? Is it “that website that works with G Suite?” Perhaps it’s “that tool that lets you close student browser tabs.” If you are not familiar with all of what Hapara can do, it can be easy to get caught up in Hapara's administrative features and use it just to police student chromebook activity. In this post, we’ll “re-situate” Hapara so that you will be better equipped to support learners working with tools in G Suite and beyond. Why Hapara? You may have read or heard about the research of John Hattie, a Professor of Education at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Hattie synthesized a wealth of existing studies to determine the most impactful ways to raise student achievement. The top five strategies include: student visible learning, formative assessment, acceleration, feedback, and other metac...

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