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AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION NOT AFFILIATED WITH TCEA Kimberly Oser Publisher Jules Denton-Card Senior Associate Publisher Lorrie Baumann Editorial Director JoEllen Lowry • Jeanie Catron • Karrie Welborn Associate Editors Yasmine Brown Art Director Jonathan Schieffer Graphic Designer Caitlyn McGrath • Sarah Glenn Customer Service Managers Jay Watson • Hannah Stefanovich Show Logistics & Distribution Marcos Morhaim Senior Account Manager Tara Neal Director of Operations Enrico Cecchi European Sales EdTech Show Daily is published by Oser Communications Group ©2018 All rights reserved. Executive and editorial offices at: 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ 85715 520.721.1300/Fax: 520.721.6300 European offices located at Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, 11, 50125 Florence, Italy www.osercommunicationsgroup.com Lee M. Oser Founder EdTech Show Daily Thursday, February 8, 2018 4 Discover PEG Writing: A Valuable Formative Assessment Tool Formative assessment is designed to guide instruction by enabling teachers to meet students at their respective perform- ance levels, provide constructive feed- back and plan future instruction to meet individual student needs. Unlike summa- tive assessment, formative instruction allows students and teachers to collabo- rate during assignments to identify strengths and weaknesses immediately so that these can be addressed before they multiply. Constructive feedback and opportunities to apply it help students increase their skills and close learning gaps. To maximize results with formative assessment, feedback for students must be timely, specific and consistent. Timely feedback is important because students can only effectively use it when they need it. The fresher the task is in the minds of students, the more like- ly they are to apply that feedback to the task. Further, timely feedback prevents continued use of incorrect information, processes and means. The fresher the task is in the minds of the students, the more likely they are to apply the feed- back in their task. Timely feedback can prevent continued use of incorrect infor- mation, processes and means. Specific feedback is also important, because stu- dents need to know exactly what they need to do to improve. Identifying what students can do to improve performance on a task gives them optimal chances to succeed. Consistency helps students know what to expect and allows them to continue their improvement. As a formative assessment tool, PEG Writing gives students immediate Success Story: Delivering 1,300 Carts in Six Weeks Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), with more than 146,000 K-12 students in 168 schools, is the second largest school district in the state and the 18th largest in the United States. As part of its mission to maximize academic achievement, CMS initiated its Strategic Plan: For a Better Tomorrow. Part of the Strategic Plan includes bring- ing digital learning to all students and to have a 1:1 ratio of students to digital devices. This means that every student will have access to a digital device (lap- top, tablet or other e-learning device) at school. To achieve its Strategic Plan, CMS began equipping each of its 30,000 mid- dle school students in 30 different schools with a Chromebook™ laptop. The next year, grades 5, 9 and 10 were added. The roll-out of the digital devices will continue to all grade levels through 2018. Challenge: How to Manage Digital Devices Students at CMS do not take their laptops home. The students pick up the devices at the beginning of the school day and return them for recharging at the end of the day. With such a large invest- ment in technology, the IT team at CMS decided to use charging carts to charge, store and secure the e-learning devices. After evaluating a wide array of options, CMS turned to Black Box, a leader in charging and storage solutions. "We chose Black Box Charging Carts because of a combination of fac- tors: high quality, competitive pricing, Continued on Page 25 Continued on Page 25