Powerful New Citelighter Tools (Plus An Edudemic Giveaway!)

Do you guys remember Citelighter? We mention it here from time to time because we think it is a pretty awesome tool that can be useful in many of your classrooms. They started out as a pretty simple tool to help students build bibliographies. Then they added Cognitive Prints to help teachers analyze students’ research and writing process.

Well, they’re still going at it – they continue to build on their already-great tool and add more features.

Today, they’re announcing a new teacher template creator, student outlining tools, and a teacher assessment platform.

A Freebie?! Yes, Please!

Not only that, but because the guys over at Citelighter know that Edudemic readers are at the top of their teaching game, they’re offering a freebie to Edudemic readers only!

The first 50 teachers that email team@citelighter.com with subject line ‘I heart Edudemic’ will receive free access to theentire suite of student and teacher tools until the end of year for free.

Citelighter will spend an hour with you showing you how to set-up your classes, and even show you what they are building over the summer. So you don’t have to have used Citelighter’s tools in the past to make this work in your classroom -they’ll help you! Give them a shout and try it out!

Today’s News From Citelighter

Citelighter knows how important it is for students to learn how to organize and effectively communicate their ideas. It is the cornerstone of 21st Century skills. They also understand the struggles associated with teaching students how to write well, especially considering the complexity of new writing standards. After spending thousands of hours with teachers and students, Citelighter is excited to release their newest installment of student and teachers tools.  This new all-purpose writing platform adds even more to an already impressive six-time award-winning research and writing tool.

The team doesn’t view writing instruction as a set of discrete processes, but rather a continuum where teachers must engage with students at the moment they are struggling. The new platform supports teachers and students alike with tools to create, draft, and edit writing tasks, which provides guidance, a sense of transparency, and collaborative opportunities throughout the entire writing process. This makes Citelighter the most comprehensive assessment platform available. The new tool includes:

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Data Is the Key to Successful Course Redesign

By LindsayH

For years, it has been no secret that many students who start post-secondary education programs drop out early. To address this issue, many schools and institutions decide to redesign their courses with the hope that students might gain a greater feeling of success, continue with their chosen program and graduate.

When considering courses for redesign, many questions are asked but the most important is this: “What data should be considered to ensure our course redesign efforts are successful?” Data metrics like grades, attendance or participation rates are obvious considerations. These can be reliable metrics in driving decision-making. However, I recommend also considering student feedback, faculty load, student experience, and assessment performance as additional data points which can better inform decisions that directly impact the course redesign process.

Let’s look at each of these to see their value as data metrics in the course redesign process.

Student Feedback

Student feedback can be a rich source of data to take into consideration before investing in a course redesign project. Most course surveys ask about the instructor’s performance, however, student feedback should not be targeted or limited to the course in question. It should encompass the entire student learning experience. It is important to understand where the students stop learning and where they fail to make connections with the content. The typical approach to improving the student learning experience has been simply creating add-ons to the existing course. However the effectiveness of add-ons without thoughtful integration is questionable. We must avoid the philosophy of ‘do something, do anything’ and focus redesign efforts on activities that are both sound and rational.

When reviewing student feedback we should focus our analysis through three lenses: the content lens, the assessment lens and the learning activity or practice lens. While course redesign focuses on the sum of the parts, each of these three lenses give curriculum developers a comprehensive picture on how students put their knowledge into practice, if at all.

Here are a few suggested data points to explore when considering student feedback:

• What learning activities did students find to be the most engaging?

• What learning activities helped students connect to the content directly?

• What did the students expect to learn prior to the start of the course?

Faculty Load

Educators are continually asked to do more with less. Frequently that extends to requiring faculty to teach more students with no additional resources. Faculty load can have an influence on student success. Students may not receive adequate or authentic feedback from instructors with a heavy student load because those instructors have fewer touch points with their students. By knowing the number of enrollments to an individual faculty member, course redesign experts can make additional recommendations for support services. Additionally, faculty load may influence a different approach to content presentations, activities, assessments, and other student services.

Here are a few suggestions to explore when considering faculty load:

• How often throughout a high enrollment course is a faculty member able to offer individualized attention to students?

• When a faculty member offers individualized attention, is it to clarify a student’s understanding of the content, provide intervention, or offer genuine feedback on activities and assessments?

• What are the student’s perceptions of the faculty member’s presence within a course?

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Important Skills For 21st Century Students

Below is a graphic I have created a few months ago in which I featured a host of important skills to grope for in today's education. I have divided these skills into three major areas : digital skills. thinking skills, and learning skills. Of course all of these skills are interrelated with each other and are applicable in more than one area. for instance , we can use the digital skill of online searching to cultivate a learning skill which is finding information...etc

I invite you to have a look and share with us what you think of it. You can also use it the way you it. Enjoy

Post Source : http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/11/25-important-skills-for-21st-century.html

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What Google Will Look Like In The Future

By Katie Lepi

It isn’t a secret that Google makes some pretty awesome tools. Many of the things they offer are particularly popular with teachers and students. They tick a few of the biggest boxes – they’re easy to use, integrate well with each other, and most of all, they’re free. But despite their excellent utility in classrooms, Google is making way cooler stuff than GMail, Drive, and hangouts.

The handy infographic below takes a look at some of the really awesome stuff Google has been doing. It is a wide variety of stuff, which the graphic refers to as their ‘roadmap to world domination’. Will we be ruled by Google? If it means you never have to drive all the way back to work to get your house keys, do you care? Weigh in by leaving a comment below, mentioning @Edudemic on Twitter, or leaving your thoughts on our Facebook page.

Google’s Roadmap To World Domination

In the future, your house keys will tell you that they’re still on your desk, your tools will remind you that you lent them to someone, your car will drive itself to retrieve both of those things, location awareness will be built into everything, and maps will be the operating system of everything.

• 20% of all Google searches are ‘where’ queries
• Google has about 70% of the ‘where query’ market

Trekker is Google’s camera (the one they use on the car that takes the photos for Google Street View).

• Trekker takes 15 photos every 2 seconds
• Those photos are then melded into a 360 degree view
• The photos are then tagged with latitude and longitude
• Trekkers are attached to Google’s driverless cars, 25 of which have logged over 600,000 miles in California

Tons of companies use Google Maps API as a huge part of their products  - like Uber, Redfin, and Airbnb.

Post Source: http://www.edudemic.com/google-future/

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