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The Quick Key Story Birth of a teacher tool... Quick Key is a suite of mobile teacher tools created by Walter Duncan, a 15-year classroom teacher who used rapid classroom feedback to get his students into the top 15% of the Massachusetts MCAS exam. Using daily short quizzes, graded instantly, [...]
Is Assessment for Learning any different from testing? Yes indeed! According to the National Council of Teachers of English, "Well over a decade into federal education policy that endows significant consequences to single tests of student achievement too late in the academic year to lead to any action, teachers might be pleased that the term “formative [...]
If you love learning about new teaching technologies that help you be creative and student-focused in a data-driven world, you might want to sign up to the email newsletter of Enio De Aragon's blog. Enio, who works at one of Brazil's most important education organizations, keeps a running list of technology tools, and he regularly adds [...]
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian 98% of UK teachers are under increasing stress and 82% say their workload is unmanageable The Guardian recently published a survey highlighting a serious problem. The immense workload and increasing pressure facing educators in the UK is causing a teacher exodus. According to the survey, 82% say their workload [...]
Jeff Davis, host of the radio show Radio Entrepreneurs, interviewed Isaac D. Van Wesep - Quick Key's President and CEO - on Wednesday August 17, 2016. Isaac was invited to the show to talk about how the Quick Key team was able to combine traditional angel funding with a Kickstarter campaign to launch a niche professional productivity [...]
If you teach 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade and you are looking for Common Core aligned lessons and assessments, you may find joy at Lesson Friend. Lesson Friend has hundreds of resources for each grade level in a range of subjects including math, social studies, science, vocabulary, typing / keyboarding skills, grammar, spelling, writing, reading, and health. [...]
Teach For America chooses Quick Key as perfect solution for national student survey initiativeActionable results allow teachers to continuously improve classroom practice and student learning experiences CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (August 08, 2016) Quick Key, the mobile assessment software that improves student performance and eliminates hand grading, and Teach For America (TFA) have partnered to implement the time-saving [...]
What's not to love about Maureen Davis's "Engage Students" blog? Davis is an instructional technology specialist, and her blog contains a wealth of technology reviews as well as "Live Binders" which allow teachers to share resources with each other and their students. If you use Google Classroom, Maureen has dozens of helpful tips on how to use Google [...]