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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Jul 6

#edtech #MenTRnet
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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · May 8

#edtech #MenTRnet #feedback "#Scaffolding in mentorship is comparable to teaching someone to ride a bicycle (...) A good mentor knows when to hold on, when to let go, and when to step in just enough to keep the journey smooth" More 👇🏻
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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · May 7

#edtech #MenTRnet "Our mentoring approach was collaborative and reflective. By maintaining open communication through WhatsApp groups and regular learning walks (...), we ensured consistent #feedback and created spaces for dialogue" #teacheresearch 👇🏻
mentrnet.net/school-impro...

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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Apr 22

#edtech Even #AI needs human feedback 😉
"This allows the AI agent to compare its performance to the expected standard and adjust accordingly. This form of #feedback is helpful in improving the agent’s adaptability to user preferences"
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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Apr 22

#edtech "#Assessment can also be a part of the learning process itself. When students use self-evaluations, flash cards, or rubrics, they’re using assessments to help them learn" 👇🏻
www.weareteachers.com/types-of-ass...

SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Mar 26

#edtech #MenTRnet #teacherresearch #EAR "Teachers Research! Online 2025
Join a global community of educators at TR! 2025 - share classroom research, exchange ideas, and get inspired" 👇🏻
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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Mar 26

#edtech "VR could be effectively utilized as artifact #scaffolding to assist less proficient or confident sts by familiarizing them with prerequisite knowledge before class. Complementing this with human scaffolding during class could further alleviate #anxiety"

SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Mar 24

#edtech #MenTRnet #teacherresearch #EAR "Teachers Research! Online 2025
Join a global community of educators at TR! 2025 - share classroom research, exchange ideas, and get inspired" 👇🏻
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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Mar 20

#dtech #feedback "Peer feedback improves students’ self-regulated learning by allowing them to evaluate and improve their performance and adjust their goals and actions for the future" 👇🏻
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Mar 19

#edtech #formative #assessment "A teacher has the distinct responsibility to nurture a student’s learning and to provide #feedback in such a manner that the student does not leave the classroom feeling defeated" 👇🏻
www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/20-...

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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Mar 19

#edtech #pronunciation #feedback "Voice assistant practice: Interact with voice assistants like Siri, Google Assistant, or Alexa in English. Practice speaking clearly and enunciating your words while asking questions or giving commands" More tips 👇🏻
www.englishpath.com/blog/learn-e...

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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Mar 13

#edtech #EAR in #Thailand
Empowering teachers thru research 👉🏻 teachers as agents of change 👇🏻
#MenTrnet #teacherresearch
www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teache...

SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Mar 8

#edtech #teacherresearch #MenTRnet "The e-book contains 22 stories of
classroom research conducted by
teachers based in six countries in(..) #Africa(...). Their
reports illustrate their journey as teacher-
researchers"

africa.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/defaul...

SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Mar 8

#edtech #feedback "#assessment AS learning: The beauty of this form of assessment is that it imparts leadership to your students: it helps them to recognize agency in their own learning, and it helps them to build autonomy"
flippingthefocus.weebly.com/blog/categor...

SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Mar 5

#edtech "Dylan Wiliam: “If students know the classroom is a safe place to make mistakes, they are more likely to use #feedback for learning.”
Jan Chappuis: “Effective feedback occurs during the learning, while there is still time to act on it.”
visible-learning.org/2015/02/info...

SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Mar 2

#edtech "The main purpose of #formative #assessment is to monitor the process of learning and to provide ongoing #feedback that can help learners to improve their learning and help instructors to improve their instructions"
www.structural-learning.com/post/formati...

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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Mar 1

#edtech "using technologies can streamline the #formative #assessment process & make it more efficient & effective. (..)also collect & analyze data on learner performance. This can inform instructional decisions & ultimately improve learning outcomes"
www.learningeverest.com/exploring-wh...

SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Feb 28

#edtech #formative #assessment #strategies #techniques "Success criteria and spot your mistakes support students to generate #feedback for themselves as well as receiving it from teachers"
teacherhead.com/2023/07/19/w...

SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Feb 11

#edtech "Formative #feedback is non-evaluative, personal, tied to learning goals, and provides opportunities for revision and furthering learning" 👇🏻
wac.gmu.edu/giving-forma...

SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Feb 9

#edtech "The human #feedback was meaningfully better in four of five categories that the researchers selected as being markers of strong fbk. The only category where #AI scored higher was on the ability to stay focused" it's not us VS AI..but cooperation👇🏻
matthewmjohnson.com/2024/04/19/q...

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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Feb 9

#edtech #PromptEngineering "#AI can generate personalised #feedback for students based on the right prompts.
This can relieve some pressures for teachers and instead create more space for them to focus on other aspects of feedback and learning" 👇🏻
efa.unisa.edu.au/2024/05/08/a...

SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Feb 8

#edtech "Once sts understand what they are expected to know and be able to do as well as ways they cn demonstrate their increased understanding,they are more likely to cooperate, collaborate and eagerly anticipate a rangeof #assessment opportunities"👇🏻
teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/formative-as...

SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Feb 8

#edtech When giving #feedback "We should avoid following an observation with a closed directive. We should avoid taking over the decision-making and removing the opportunity for students to solve the problem"
kennedy-center.org/education/reso…
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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Feb 6

#edtech "Complementary roles: #formative informs learning process; #summative evaluates outcomes; formative prepares students for summative assessments" More 👇🏻
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SidMartin @24sm24.bsky.social · Feb 5

#edtech #feedback "Teachers can help accelerated learning students experience the benefits of formative assessment by making respectful and thoughtful classroom assessment decisions" More 👇🏻
schoolsup.org/txts-4-teach...