Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Click on any of the titles below to read our full review of the tool's classroom potential. What's more, many of these reviews also include a link to our privacy evaluations -- before choosing any tool for your classroom, be sure to check them out. Brief bursts of physical exercise add classroom fun, build brainpower.

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Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 66

techlearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Vocabulary instruction is sometimes an isolated event in classrooms. As an elementary school teacher, I definitely introduced word lists and spelling tests with vocabulary unrelated to the topics we explored in different parts of the school day. This exercise can happen as a pre-publishing activity before they even jump into the tool.

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Adobe Classroom Common Core Video 63

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary. When I do an H, I do a straight line down, another straight line down and then I cross in the middle,” Miller said, demonstrating on a projector in a front corner of the classroom. A student works on a writing assignment in Heather Miller’s classroom.

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Elementary Report Groups Assessment 145

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2015

Besides iPads and Chromebooks and a plethora of free websites that enable students to collaborate, share and publish, education’s tech explosion has resulted in a wide (and increasing) variety of tools that extend the teachers reach, making it easier to differentiate for the varied needs of students even in a busy classroom. Conclusion.

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Tools Common Core iPad Digital Citizenship 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2015

Coding has become the poster child for a tech-infused classroom. sequencing–knowing what happens when; mentioned in Common Core standards for grades 1 through 5. No surprise the United Kingdom took the bold step of adding coding to the core school curriculum. The free version has a limited number of exercises.

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iPad Common Core Digital Citizenship eBook 150

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Click on any of the titles below to read our full review of the tool's classroom potential. What's more, many of these reviews also include a link to our privacy evaluations -- before choosing any tool for your classroom, be sure to check them out. Google Classroom. Don't see your favorite tool? Flocabulary.

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 40

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Click on any of the titles below to read our full review of the tool's classroom potential. What's more, many of these reviews also include a link to our privacy evaluations -- before choosing any tool for your classroom, be sure to check them out. Google Classroom. Don't see your favorite tool? Flocabulary.

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 40

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 Ithaca’s detracking efforts have their roots in Susan Danskin’s classroom at DeWitt Middle School. The changes to the math curriculum have their roots in Susan Danskin’s classroom.

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Exercises Groups Report Meeting 142

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Students are grouped by academic need so teachers can review topics with struggling students while the rest of the class works at their own pace, often on a playlist of exercises assigned by Canvas (grades 6-12) or Google Classroom (K-5). Students at Normandy Park Elementary in Morris School District.

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Blended Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 112

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. classrooms. FLEX Literacy Projects resources for either Elementary (3-5) or Secondary (6 and above) classrooms.

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Common Core Education Secondary Exercises 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

The Academy is a magnet elementary school is located in a U.S. Because of this deeper awareness of their students, teachers are able to tailor their classrooms through art as a way to meet the needs of vastly diverse learners, an otherwise relatively difficult task for educators. Related: Do the arts go hand-in-hand with common core?

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Personalized Learning Common Core Elementary Exercises 83

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

I knew she was a good teacher, but in all that time, I never had the opportunity to watch her in her own classroom. By looking at your data points in a new way, you can create professional development opportunities within a classroom, school, or across an entire district by leveraging your internal subject matter experts (SMEs).

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Data Blended Learning LMS Knowledge Base 89

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2016

They had limited impact on professional learning, says Epps, principal of the Mancos Early Learning Center and Elementary School. There’s so much to do as a classroom teacher, and if your comfort level with technology isn’t there, you’re going to say ‘forget it,’” Epps says. Staff needed time to get comfortable with it.

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Data Common Core Assessment Training 60

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. Which means they aren''t exercising the most efficient opportunity costs on a daily basis.

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Common Core Assessment Learning Guidelines 49

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Beginning that very first year in my Algebra classroom, I've strived to make it easier for educators to design their own curriculum. Khan Academy videos coupled with IXL exercises aligned to standards we were learning in class. To somewhat quote Darth Vader, I found the lack of quality edtech curriculum deeply disturbing.

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Khan Academy Assessment Differentiated Instruction EdTech 60

Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I was particularly drawn to the blog’s description: “One Student’s Mission to Explain the Benefits of Social Media in the Classroom.” Once my DVD is finished, I hope to collaborate with my school board and jump-start a more educated future in using social media in the classroom.”. How could I not interview her?

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Social Media Personal Learning Network Wiki Common Core 28

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The reason is that when you come to school and your language skills aren’t as good, a lot of what the teacher says—and 80 percent of classroom instruction in elementary school is a teacher talking and students listening—is going to go right over your head.”.

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Software Exercises Common Core Elementary 40

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

As a fifth grade teacher, I used to spend hours hunting for math materials and exercises. If I had to teach my math class a standard skill, like adding fractions with different denominators, I would flip through thick binders of exercises, maybe printing up a few. Most teachers nationwide now teach to Common Core standards.

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Common Core Resources Exercises How To 72

Evelyn Learning

MAY 14, 2023

There has been a rise in AI programs with books and courses exclusively focusing on elementary and high-school students. Alex said that the biggest change he has seen is not in the topics we’re teaching, but rather how it’s been taught and this is now formalized in many of the newer standards which come under the Common Core.

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Common Core Industry EdTech Social Media 40

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

In the last five years, there have been some remarkable shifts in the tools educators use in the classroom and to perform their many responsibilities. We’ve seen the market fluctuate dramatically, as early iPad-dominated classrooms gave way to the rise of Google. At the beginning, these conversations can pinpoint needs.

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EdTech Tools Examples Common Core 122

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“It’s an exercise of power aimed at the public, and in a democratic society, power deserves attention and scrutiny, not gratitude.” Pushback against Common Core tests specifically and against standardized testing more generally have also prompted states and districts to rethink the kind and frequency of assessments they buy.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40