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Top 10 Reasons to Sign Up for Summer Learning with Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available. Digital portfolios—via wikis.

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Reflecting on 2015… Ten Resources I Found Valuable

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Simple English Wikipedia allows students to enter in search terms that bring up Wikipedia articles that are easier to understand. These articles are also rich with vocabulary that can be used as a keyword search term. A great resource for the digital classroom! Best of learning to all of you in 2016!

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - Reinventing the Classroom - Library 2.014 - The Real 1:1 - Reclaim Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Common Core State Standards require students to think critically and be effective consumers and producers of information and media. This ISTE webinar will focus on ways teachers can create active, student-centered, digital age classrooms that help students meet the Common Core and ISTE Standards.

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43 Apps, Games, and Websites Transforming This Year's Classrooms

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Bottom line: As a flipped-classroom or student-creation tool, this tool offers lots of opportunities for use, but teachers will need to be creative if they want students to engage. Bottom line: A solid resource for Common Core math instruction as well as foundational knowledge in a number of other subjects. Khan Academy.

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43 Apps, Games, and Websites Transforming This Year's Classrooms

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Crop, customize, and remix online video content with interactive tool Bottom line: As a flipped-classroom or student-creation tool, this tool offers lots of opportunities for use, but teachers will need to be creative if they want students to engage. Unlimited Books for Kids. Khan Academy. Khan Academy Kids. Nitro Type. TIME for Kids.

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43 Apps, Games, and Websites Transforming This Year's Classrooms

Graphite Blog

Crop, customize, and remix online video content with interactive tool Bottom line: As a flipped-classroom or student-creation tool, this tool offers lots of opportunities for use, but teachers will need to be creative if they want students to engage. Unlimited Books for Kids. Khan Academy. Khan Academy Kids. Nitro Type. TIME for Kids.

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What is Actively Learn and Why Should I Try it?

Ask a Tech Teacher

It provides reading resources either uploaded by the teacher or selected from the platform’s library of thousands of fiction and nonfiction books (some free; some through Prime plans), Common Core-aligned lesson plans, videos, or simulations. in a flipped classroom to upload texts, articles, and multimedia resources.

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