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6 Ways to Make Classroom Typing Fun

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6.6 ) By 3rd grade, Common Core discusses the use of keyboarding to produce work, i.e., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 which specifically mentions ‘use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills)’ keyboarding is required to take Common Core Standards assessments in the Spring. for example. for example.

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Betsy DeVos Touts Personalized Learning, Slams Common Core and Reform Efforts

Edsurge

Yet where she sees “promise” are movements to improve education at the classroom level, particularly through instructional approaches now often referred to as “personalized learning.”. “We Department of Education, Common Core is dead. Then, rightly, came the public backlash to federally imposed tests and the Common Core.

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Gates Foundation CEO Admits Underestimating Common-Core Challenges

Marketplace K-12

In a letter posted today on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s website , chief executive officer Sue Desmond-Hellman acknowledged that the group had made some miscalculations regarding implementation of the Common Core State Standards. ” She called this a “challenging lesson for us to absorb.”

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Kids can learn more from guided play than from direct instruction, report finds

The Hechinger Report

Last year, a report by the LEGO Foundation that looked at 26 studies of play from 18 countries found play is so powerful it can reduce inequality and close achievement gaps between children ages 3 to 6. aim to create play-based learning opportunities outside of the classroom while also improving access to playgrounds.

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In Texas, new math standards look a whole lot like Common Core

The Hechinger Report

On a recent Tuesday, she stood at the back of her cluttered third-grade math classroom, presiding over a set of scales weighed down on one side with two textbooks — 1 kilogram total. The Texas standards aren’t the same as the Common Core State Standards, adopted by more than 40 states. SAN ANTONIO — Karen Demore booms.

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What Happens When Technology Fails? 3 Work-Arounds

Ask a Tech Teacher

With the pride of place iPads and Chromebooks have in curriculum decisions, tech problems will be wide-ranging, everything from a student’s device not having required software to the classroom systems not hooking up to the school’s network or WiFi. Technology–be it phones, scanners, online report cards–fails often.

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Teachers in Common-Core States Have Big Say in Choosing Resources, Report Suggests

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Teachers of math and English/language arts in states following the common-core standards are playing a strong role in developing or selecting the classroom resources they use, a report has found. Kaufman, a policy researcher at RAND and co-author of the report. English Teachers Want Skill-Specific Resources.