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Writing 2.0: Technology-Rich Approach to Common Core Writing

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Common Core writing requires students to create and publish writing online, and to interact and collaborate with others. Active participants, perhaps motivated by the opportunity to engage in meaningful reading and writing, approach an event as if their presence matters," ( Johnson, 2014, p. Writing is a huge piece of literacy.

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English + Common Core + Mobile = Success in Learning Poster Session at ISTE 2014

Education with Technology

In my ISTE Sunday 8-10 am poster session, I demonstrate many diverse mobile activities to help students achieve the English Language Arts Common Core Anchor Statements through mobile devices. The mobile activities focus on free common tool apps that are available on both the Android and the iPad.

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Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards

The Hechinger Report

2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. We used to teach procedural math, but now students have to understand the ‘why’ as much as the ‘how’.”. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S.

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Computer literacy: The invisible skills gap?

Neo LMS

While the teachers in my audience will probably know the difference, it does not help that the Common Core Standards are exceptionally vague about the type of digital skills students need to exhibit. How computer literacy evolved into digital literacy. So, let’s do a Marie Kondo and declutter the concepts.

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Top 100 Sites/Apps of 2014

Technology Tidbits

mobile app Top 100 Sites/Apps of 2014 Been for Education - A innovative site for Social Learning that allows educators to surf and collaborate on the web w/ their students in a safe environment where educators create/manage student accounts. Rosetta Stone for Kids - A wonderful free iPad app for kids ages 3-7 learning how to read.

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What Parents Need To Know About the Common Core (technology tips included)

Saving Socrates

What Parents Need to Know About the Common Core and How They Can Help Their Children The Common Core is an attempt to nationalize the curriculum creating common core standards in grades K-12. Explain how history is recorded and how people view the same experiences differently.

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Larry Ferlazzo’s Thoughts on Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

How to encourage intrinsic motivation. Something that happened in his classroom this week and how he handled it. The ESL/ELL Teachers Survival Guide; Navigating The Common Core With English Language Learners by Larry Ferlazzo. The important question we must ask ourselves about everything we do in the classroom.

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