Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: Differentiation. Be creative.

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Differentiated Instruction BYOD Common Core Digital Citizenship 154

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

It makes learning organic, part of life rather than something that must happen from a certain book or room. The problem is trying to blend them effortlessly into a class LMS or learning platform without lots of extra clicks and logins. Kiddom is an easy-to-use education platform designed as a centralized hub for teaching and learning.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Academic Standards Outcomes 173

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Headlines such as “ Less than half of Maryland students pass English, math assessments ” and “ Internationally, U.S. Students Are Falling ” have become so common, we are almost immune to the message. America’s student math scores continue to drop. Everyday Mathematics. Houghton-Mifflin’s GO Math !

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Khan Academy Common Core Pearson Digital Citizenship 153

Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

Digital textbooks are cost-effective and create equitable, engaging and flexible learning experiences. You can also share specific texts with individual students or small groups to differentiate instruction and personalize learning. It also includes feedback for learners when they answer formative assessment questions.

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How To Classroom Common Core Hapara 130

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

Engage Edtech Employees in Extended Learning We call the program Freshman Seminar. The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. I always look forward to this final exercise.

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EdTech Course Common Core Industry 127

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While it traditionally is an assessment tool for college-bound seniors, more and more high schools are choosing it as an exit exam for graduating seniors (such as these changes in Ohio and the State of Washington ). What better tool than the one Khan Academy uses to score their writing exercises: Turnitin’s Revision Assistant.

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Khan Academy How To Exercises Common Core 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2015

‘Close reading’ entered the teacher’s lexicon with this Common Core literacy anchor standard: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. Learning ( [link] ).

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Tools Common Core Android Adobe 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Then that too changed when rote drills and worksheets were replaced with cerebral challenges and dynamic exercises. Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond. Interactivate. BarGraph Sorter. Caesar Cipher.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Comparison Report 248

eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

Keep reading to discover the meaning of some of the most common trends in Edtech. Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! Blended learning combines traditional, in-person learning with digital learning, so that students can experience both forms.

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Trends MOOC Differentiated Instruction Gamification 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2016

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for learning technology. This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Perspective taking’ is an important skill to learn. They take questions.

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Khan Academy eBook Exercises Common Core 153

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

“Looking at these projects, it’s clear that some kids have been so motivated to make beautiful graphs that they’re going out to learn math that most kids don’t learn until college,” says von Oy. “We We see 13, 14-year-olds going online and asking their peers to learn about things that are beyond what they’d normally learn in class.”

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Company Exercises Common Core Academic Standards 216

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Desmos – Their mission is to help every student learn math and love learning math. These projects promote cooperative learning, problem-solving and the use of technology. NZ Math – These rich learning Math ideas come from New Zealand. We accomplish that goal by building products and partnerships.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 23, 2012

To date, these statistics are: 140 million+ lessons delivered, 500 million+ exercises done, and 6+ million unique visits per month. As Sal emphasized, his key finding during this exploratory process was that viewers could engage in the content when they were ready for, or needed, it and could learn at their own pace.

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Khan Academy Flipped Classroom Digital Divide Common Core 273

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

One of the key elements of the curriculum-design approach known as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is student engagement — creating opportunities for students to become engaged and stay motivated, to believe that what they’re learning is important, and to feel capable in their learning. In UDL Now!,

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UDL Common Core Guidelines Exercises 120

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

The product will enable teachers of all subject areas to create and share digital assignments that correlate to Khan Academy videos and other materials, including more than 60,000 Common Core-aligned lessons and interactive exercises. The point, says Khan, is to help teachers personalize learning for their students. “If

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Khan Academy Tools Common Core Exercises 153

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Even though countless studies have debunked this means to truly assess teacher effectiveness states have moved full steam ahead ignoring the research. The sole focus becomes one that emphasizes performing well on a test as opposed to learning. Teachers are the true catalysts of change that can create schools that work for kids.

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Evelyn Learning

MAY 14, 2023

It helps teachers adopt reasonable teaching approaches and it helps students study and learn in an organized manner. As technology is infusing more and more into education and students are being introduced to different learning styles, there is a need to reassess the curriculum with regard to new age requirements.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

To supplement in-person support offered during class and lunch periods, I published a simple Google site to house my lessons, assessments, and other resources. If students missed class or needed additional help, they could go to my website and access the day’s lesson as well as videos and digital exercises from YouTube and Khan Academy.

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System Khan Academy EdTech LMS 119

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

She showed the students a video to review the math, then sent them scattering to different tables to practice the exercises they’d found challenging. “We He partly blamed the 2010 Common Core requirements, which had toughened middle school math at all levels and raised the cost of moving too quickly.

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Exercises Groups Report Meeting 138

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In order to address these equity concerns, the district is increasingly turning to technology--in particular, blended learning--to allow all students to succeed. Embracing Blended Learning. The districtwide shift towards blended learning began in 2015 when Erica Hartman was hired as Supervisor of Technology Integration.

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Blended Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 109

Saving Socrates

APRIL 22, 2013

In his post on his blog [link] , Aaron Ross suggests that their are two polar opposite approaches to the neccessity of a common core, those who want to protect and perhaps even popularize it and those who want to totally abandon it. Is there a need for a common set of knowledge that all students must at a minimum possess?

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Common Core Assessment Learning Guidelines 49

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

The only goal is to learn the material, sooner or later. They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Learning Common Core System Groups 107

Knowledge Avatars K-12

JANUARY 17, 2021

Why couldn't I get these kids to love learning as much as I did? I soon realized that I didn't develop a love of learning until I graduated from college. Only then could I choose to learn anything I wanted on a whim, work at my own pace, pick my learning materials, or change "course" if I lost interest. Then I remembered.

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System Common Core Exercises Assessment 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2016

Sounds dry, maybe even boring, but once a child learns to read, they get much more than an understanding of words, sentences, paragraphs, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. They get an escape from reality, exercise for their brains, a closeness to like-minded souls, answers to problems–and reading can even predict success in school.

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Tools Mobility Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

A few years ago, she could see that some of her fifth graders struggled with second grade math skills, while others were capable of eighth grade content on the NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment. But for good learning to happen, customization is a non-negotiable. The resulting 1.0

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Khan Academy EdTech Exercises Data 60

eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2016

While the SAT did not change because of Common Core state standards and other recent state standards adoptions, designers researched just what was changing in the classrooms to better align the test with what students know and needed to know. “We Students, meanwhile, no longer get penalized for guessing.

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Common Core Exercises Learning Classroom 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2015

” Sounds dry, maybe even boring, but once a child learns to read, they get much more than an understanding of words, sentences, paragraphs, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. This wide variety of games and assessments allow for differentiation in learning styles and is helpful for children who do better with alternative methods.

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Common Core Android iPhone eBook 150

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Children in early elementary school have had their most formative first few years of education disrupted by the pandemic, years when they learn basic math and reading skills and important social-emotional skills, like how to get along with peers and follow routines in a classroom. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary Report Groups Assessment 145

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

But just how effective are these tools at helping students learn? Bottom line: A well-planned, -produced, and -curated set of free resources bound to get kids hooked on learning to code. DreamBox Learning Math. It's savvy enough to keep kids focused, and teachers will be tapping their toes to the unorthodox learning method.

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Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 66

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

The boom and bust of Common Core standards have left their mark, just as new concerns over media literacy and privacy are doing currently. As a director for Common Sense Education , I’ve enjoyed something of a ringside seat, having edited close to 1,000 edtech reviews written by expert educators. No more bulky software”).

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EdTech Tools Examples Common Core 119

Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, there’s even a word for it: it’s called the “testing effect,” which refers to the finding that long-term memory is often increased when some of the learning period is devoted to retrieving the to-be-remembered information. This makes practice tests not only an assessment tool,but a crucial part of the teaching toolkit.

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How To Edmentum Exercises Analysis 56

eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2016

With so much talk about the Common Core standards and truly increasing our student’s argumentative powers and critical thinking skills, some teachers are starting to think critically themselves about how best to engage students in thoughtful debate and discussion around texts they need to analyze anyway. Reflection/assessment.

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Common Core Exercises Analysis Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As the artificial intelligence revolution comes to education, teachers are rightly concerned that AI in schools will replace the human assessment of human learning. Over the years, I learned to prioritize positive comments in every student’s paper, in the margins and final notes, mindful of student affect and motivation.

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Tools Common Core Robotics Exercises 68

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2016

They had limited impact on professional learning, says Epps, principal of the Mancos Early Learning Center and Elementary School. Consensus with Consistency Last fall, Mancos worked with the Colorado Education Initiative (CEI) to conduct a “readiness assessment” of its ability to support and train educators to adopt the new tool.

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Data Common Core Assessment Training 60

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

SRA FLEX Literacy Projects Jumpstart promotes critical skills for at-risk elementary, middle and high school students, extends benefits of project-based learning to more U.S. A Collaboration, Presentation and Writing Assessment Guide. classrooms. A FLEX Literacy Projects ePresentation, among other FLEX Literacy Projects Resources.

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Common Core Education Secondary Exercises 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification. Plus, the available content was designed around how much time I’d spend teaching it versus what I actually needed to get students adept at learning the topic at hand.

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Khan Academy Assessment Differentiated Instruction EdTech 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update February 25th Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. Mark Twain Welcome to the Learning Revolution. The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn. Look for Events from These New Partners at Learning Revolution.

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Libraries Google Common Core Conference 51