These days, there are dozens of online tools to help students learn and teachers teach. With quick, fun formative assessment platforms like Kahoot and Poll Anywhere, to tutorial/drill-and-practice sites like Khan Academy and IXL, opportunities for learning abound in...
Moodle
Reason #1: Data in the hands of teachers
If you're a Dearborn teacher, you've heard of it many times. You've even been required to use it to complete some of your own professional development. But if you're like many, you haven't found the time to invest in it or seen how the benefits could possibly...
Guide to Creating a Moodle (iLearn) Quiz
Check out the latest guide created by the Tech Coaches to help you create a Moodle (iLearn) quiz. The guide is easily navigable and even features Tech Coach Tips with advice on creating and administering quizzes on iLearn. This Guide is just the latest in a series of...
Interpreting iLearn (Moodle) Quiz Data
One of the many advantages to using Moodle (iLearn) in addition to the flexibility of the Quiz module (the number attempts, shuffling questions, inserting variables into numerical questions) is the wealth of usable data you can glean from each quiz. Bryant science...
Toward a More Consistently-Enacted Curriculum
First year teacher Ahmad Charara was assigned to teach Computer Applications at Lowrey Middle School this year. Fortunately, over the past several years, the Computer Applications course has been built on iLearn, Dearborn's Moodle courseware--largely due to the work...
iLearn: Claim-Evidence-Reasoning
Several teachers in secondary science have begun using an argumentative writing protocol called "Claim-Evidence-Reasoning", or "C-E-R". Students use this protocol to generate a claim about a particular issue or concept, then support their claim with evidence....