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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

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million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. Seminars I attended included: using social media to spread the word.

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7 Skills Students Need for Today’s Classwork

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You rarely see a lesson that doesn’t ask for online this or digital that. Students are expected to collaborate and share online as young as kindergarten when they read digital books or draw pictures using iPad apps. Digital Citizenship. Let’s face it: Students are on social media or will be soon.

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169 Tips That Easily and Quickly Integrate Tech into Your Class

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The result was my popular 98 Tech Tips and my weekly tech tip column from that book. I won’t share the link because I’ve retired that book. If you’re a veteran teacher integrating technology into units of inquiry and/or Common Core State Standards, these tips will be invaluable. Social media (4).

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What parents should ask teachers about technology

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Who teaches digital citizenship? . Teach digital citizenship is easily done either through dedicated platforms like Common Sense Media and Netsmartz , or a full-blown curriculum like this one from Structured Learning. For Common Core schools: How do they prepare students to succeed with online testing?

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Parent Questions About Edtech

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There are some parents who equate EdTech with “new math” and Common Core, terms that send shudders through some segments of our population. The new curriculum being taught under STEM and Common Core systems are programs designed to improve how lessons are taught. The comparison is completely unfounded, of course.

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6 Tips I Wish I’d Known When I Started Blogging

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You have to pay attention to proper writing skills, be careful to not plagiarize content or media, be a friend to your ebuddies, be constantly and brilliantly inspired, and be a tech genius who can fix all those geeky things that make social media work. 13 Ways Blogs Teach Common Core.

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Why and How Students Can Blog

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First: Don’t roll out blogging in your classroom without educating students on digital citizenship — privacy, profiles, footprints, safety, fair use/copyrights. Another good resource is Common Sense Media. 13 Ways Blogs Teach Common Core. That’s a lot of learning in a few sentences.