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Vivid Vocabulary, Common Core, & Tech Integration Tools

wwwatanabe

With the shifts of the Common Core , students need to spend time learning both Tier 2 and Tier 3 words in a variety of ways. By interacting with vocabulary, students absorb the word''s meaning and learn to appropriately use it in a variety of contexts ( Common Core Appendix A ). Lingro is an online dictionary.

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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

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This can be created using PowerPoint, Google Glides, Haiku Deck, or another slideshow tool you’re comfortable with. This includes not just Google Apps and Microsoft Office but webtools for digital storytelling, coding, backchannel devices, digital notetaking, programming, Scratch, and others. Here’s an example.

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Making The Best App Choices With @Graphite

The Web20Classroom

There are loads of these topic areas and they change all the time so you will definitely want to come back and see whats new and exciting. Common Core Explorer -For many teachers following the Common Core Standards is a reality. Finding technology resources to support the Common Core can be a challenge.

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Guest post: 15 EdTech Resources to Use in Classroom

EdTech4Beginners

The website gives you videos, images, and articles related to the questions and aligned with Common Core standards. Google Hangouts. When you arrange the time and date, you can connect both classrooms via Google Hangouts. The videos are very fun to watch, so they definitely get the interest of young students.

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So.You Wanna Make Your Own Books and Texbooks

The Web20Classroom

For a more collaborative, living document, you could try a Google Doc. Apple iBooks Author ( [link] )- If you use or have access to a Mac, you definitely should check out the iBooks Author. They are aligned to the Common Core standards and many state standards as well. Using something like a MS Word doc could work.

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Sal Khan: Test Prep Is ‘the Last Thing We Want to Be’

Edsurge

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. If you look at the content on the MAP accelerator, it is common core aligned content and it’s all from the standards in the common core and not just what may or may not be in the MAP. Successful?

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If We Could Write 10,000 Words.

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

While the Common Core Curriculum Standards are supposed to provide English teachers with a common core of skills and texts, English classes are not standardized because the scope is too broad. Multitasking is definitely not the answer for cooking or writing. I''m excited to explore this with my students.