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Authentic Tools For Learning: Creating and Calibrating Assessments To Fuel Feedback And Engagement

December 11, 2020 Lindsay Portnoy
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How can we evaluate authentic and dynamic student work in the least subjective way possible?

  • Learn how to create authentic tools for providing feedback on student work,

  • Together we will calibrate and validate current assessments and design a concrete roadmap for future with clear goals and outcomes,

  • Delineate pathways for ongoing forward progress with students as co-collaborators of the creation and evaluation of their work, and

  • Ensure all learners have the tools and feedback they need to meet their greatest potential

Tags authentic assessment, assessment for learning, feedback, engagement, feedback for learning

Game On? Brain On: The Surprising Relationship between Play and Gray (Matter)

December 11, 2020 Lindsay Portnoy
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Based off my latest book, Game On? Brain On?, discover the science of learning across multimodal domains through social emotional, cognitive, and physical development unique to the learners in your environment,

  • Develop strategies to harness powerful learning strategies today,

  • Invite learners to collaborate in designing their own multimodal learning experiences tomorrow, and

  • Emerge with tips, tools, and powerful practices for using games for learning today where the assessment IS the game, and return the joy and fun to learning

Tags Game On? Brain On!, cognitive science, learning through games, assessment for learning