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  • Metacognition: The effect of self-assessment/self-grading on student performance

    Self assessment and metacognition effect on accelerating student learning.

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  • A Bring Your Own Technology (Device) Policy Statement

    Here’s the policy statement that one of our client schools uses to guide their Bring Your Own Technology program.  We’ve heard of too many schools agonizing too much, in our opinion, over drafting such a policy.  It’s always good to have everyone voice their ideas and weigh-in on new innovations, but this isn’t that hard.  […]

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  • Overview

    Quick Question — web based classroom / student response software instead of clickers for formative assessment

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  • Professional Development

    Tips and ideas on how to transform your instruction and accelerate learning with Quick Question

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  • Support

    Need help with Quick Question? Find it here!

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  • Customer Viewpoint

    What educators are saying about Quick Question

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  • Naiku receives eSchool Media Readers’ Choice Award

    MINNEAPOLIS, July 24, 2012 – Naiku announced today that, for the 2nd straight year, they received a Readers’ Choice Award from eSchool Media. The Honorable Mention award was given for the Naiku SaaS assessment platform, the only such product to receive a Readers’ Choice Award from eSchool Media this year. The Naiku platform is used […]

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  • Naiku Quick Question helps teachers Bridge the Gap

    Classroom response systems help a good teacher be a better teacher. There’s nothing magical about it; it’s a lot like the traditional way of eliciting responses from students, only better. If a teacher has ever said, ‘can I see a show of hands’ or ‘let’s take a vote’ or  ‘how many of you think …,’ […]

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  • A Significant and Very Positive Impact on Learning and Teaching

    9ine Consulting (www.9ine.uk.com) and Naace ((http://www.naace.co.uk) recently shared The iPad as a Tool For Education – a case study that looks at the use of iPads at the Longfield Academy, where the UK’s largest 1 to 1 iPad program was implemented last year. The study report concluded that the use of iPads produced a “significant […]

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  • Fifth Graders Use Naiku on ASUS Transformer Tablets

    Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting a group of 5th graders using Naiku for the first time. Their school had just received a class set of ASUS Transformer tablets. The students and their teacher were excited to use the devices. They were equally excited to use Naiku for the first time. It was […]

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  • Data Driven Instruction with Naiku

    Premier educators such as Dr. Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Driven By Data 2.0: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction) and Dr. John Hattie (Visible Learning) promote the use of data in enhancing instruction and student learning. In this linked white paper, Dr. Adisack Nhouyvanisvong discusses these techniques and showcases how to implement them using Naiku.

  • Achieving Visible Learning with Naiku

    Visible Learning is an excellent resource illustrating the effectiveness of student-centered learning which Naiku wholeheartedly supports. In Visible Learning and Visible Learning for Teachers, Dr. John Hattie (2009, 2012) synthesizes research studies involving hundreds of millions of students to show the effectiveness of different approaches to improve learning. Dr. Hattie found that student-centered learning strategies have the highest […]

  • Use ACT Quick Checks for Progress Monitoring

    Naiku provides over 50 ACT Quick Checks for teachers to use for student progress monitoring in all ACT test subjects. ACT Quick Checks are short, topic-focused, formative assessments; typically 6-12 questions in length. Each Quick Check contains questions from a single topic, such as Math-Functions, so teachers can use to easily monitor progress between benchmark […]

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