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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

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Common Core Standards recognize the importance of this skill by addressing it in over 29 Standards, at every grade level from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. The better adults are at this, the more they thrive. Clearly, this is a seminal skill.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology. One of the sessions is dedicated to examining education standards. Read the updates too: parts one and two.

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

Ask a Tech Teacher

Common Core Standards recognize the importance of this skill by addressing it in over 29 Standards, at every grade level from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. The better adults are at this skill, the more they thrive in the world. Clearly, this is a seminal skill.

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Digital Badges: Better Than Grades?

Education with Technology

tuttle, https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/classroom-grades-dont-reflect-student-learning/ ). The final grade in a course or even a ten week grade probably does not reflect the actual academic learning.These grades may not reflect the academic standards (Common Core, standards or proficiencies) for that course.

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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

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In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. A common set of academic standards could alleviate the discovery issue, but several states have withdrawn from the Common Core State Standards and decided to adopt their own. Last year, the U.S. Forty-two states and Washington, D.C.

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How We Express Ourselves: Making a Museum in a Box

iLearn Technology

I also am unwilling to retire iLearn Technology all together. For all of my education friends who have been with me since 2007, I can’t tell you how enormously grateful I am for all of you. I hope that you’ll continue to find reasons to come to iLearn Technology. Secondly, I still have so much to share! high classes.

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The Thin Line Between Critical Literacy and New Literacies

Reading By Example

This is another reaction I wrote to assigned reading for the graduate course I am taking through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Technology and School Leadership. Teaching Digital Literacies for the Common Core: What Results From New Assessments Tell Us. title=Critical_literacy&oldid=720298766. Forzani, E. Jenkins, H.