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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. Twitter blasts to remind students of due dates. Try these ten tech uses. You can use Google Forms or the Google calendar.

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Subscriber Special: More MLK

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Designed for grades 4-7, it’s aligned with Common Core and ISTE Standards. . Common Core and ISTE alignment. resources. –Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). Great project that gets students thinking about the impact of words on history. Essential Question.

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Subscriber Special: 2 Free Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans

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Designed for grades 4-7, it’s aligned with Common Core and ISTE Standards. . Common Core and ISTE alignment. resources. –Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). Great project that gets students thinking about the impact of words on history. Essential Question.

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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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Let’s evaluate the Common Core Reading Standards and their good fit with games: What Common Core Expects. I’m asking for exemplars of how Minecraft gamers used Common Core writing standards. Allow me to change that. What Game Delivers. In most games, players can’t progress without this.

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Hour of Code? Here’s why to participate

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It feels like: When it should feel like: Coding is a great tie-in to Common Core Math Standards. Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). Coding is that mystical geeky subject that confounds students and teachers alike. CSEdWeek #hourofcode #hoc #edtech.

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9 Ways to Add Tech to your Lessons Without Adding Time to Your Day

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Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. Use Twitter novels to teach writing skills. What an amazing motivator for students who struggle with writing.

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Last Chance for this College-credit Tech-for-writing Class

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Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why.