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10 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology

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Common Core tells us: New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. The underlying theme can’t be ignored by teachers any longer: A 21 st Century learner requires technologic proficiency.

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What Happens When Technology Fails? 3 Work-Arounds

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Technology enables it to differentiate authentically for the diverse group of learners that walk across your threshold. Until the day of, the technology that is its foundation fails. All that matters is an effort to use technology to add rigor and excitement to a tired lesson plan fails, leaving the teacher more technophobic than ever.

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Creatively Teach the Common Core with Technology

Catlin Tucker

Educators today are facing two major shifts in education–a move to the Common Core Standards and increasing pressure to teach students with the technology they’ll be expected to use in their lives beyond high school. Writing dialogue with Google Story Builder. Inspiring creative writing with Google maps.

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Subscriber Special: K-5 New Teacher Survival Kit

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It includes K-5 tech curriculum (including problem solving, productivity software, critical thinking, share/publish, mouse skills, image editing, Google Earth, Photoshop, web tools, and more), keyboarding and digital citizenship curricula, classroom posters, pedagogic articles on tech ed topics, tips and tricks, and more.

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Dozens of Online Resources for Assessment

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Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Get Common Core Ready: Achieve Dynamic Student-led Discussions

Catlin Tucker

Each night they design a dynamic discussion question and submit their question via the Google Form I have embedded in our class website. Note: For educators using Google Apps, click here to view a copy of the student-led facilitation form. Interested in technology tips to help you teach the Common Core?

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Social Entrepreneurship Unit with Elementary Students (2024): A Perfect STEAM Lesson

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I call it a perfect STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) unit. Educational technology is incorporated with a focus on assisting with the learning activities not to learn technology just for the sake of learning it. This is my 3rd time doing this project with my gifted learners, grades 4th through 6th.