The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

A conversation with Jon Corippo on episode 92 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Jon’s core PL skills are focused on 1:1 deployment, Common Core, Project Based Learning, social media skills and Lesson Design. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 29, 2016

Cross-posted from the Curriculum Matters blogs. It shows big drops in proficiency rates as many states switched to tests aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Since 2011-12, Texas has been planning to phase in higher cut scores on its state tests, but delayed that move until 2015-16.

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The Jose Vilson

MARCH 27, 2016

Readers of this blog know how many times we’ve pointed out education policies that don’t reflect the lived experiences of what happens in schools. Are we under the assumption that tests are as good at telling us about a person’s character as, say, actually building a relationship with them? I don’t buy it.

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The Mobile Native

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

If you''d like to get a feel for 2011''s conference, then read dozens of blog posts submitted during the event. It''s my pleasure to be on the team organizing Mobile Learning Experience 2012. It''s the second year of this terrific conference. Registration for Mobile Learning Experience 2012 is open.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2015

The move to Common Core with a greater emphasis on students interacting with nonfiction texts has many teachers challenged to think of transformative ways in which to teach reading strategies for connecting with and comprehending text. "2011: What I Read" by erin m used under a CC BY-NC 2.0 Not Anymore!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2013

Detailed lesson plans in every chapter align with the Common Core English Language Arts Standards and cover a variety of valuable skills, including personal responsibility and perseverance, social and emotional learning, standardized test-taking strategies, and much more!" He is married and has three children and two grandchildren.

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MindShift

APRIL 17, 2018

Research confirms that in order for ELLs to acquire English they must engage in oral language practice and be given the opportunity to use language in meaningful ways for social and academic purposes (Williams & Roberts, 2011). Additionally, t he Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards specifically focus on oral presentations.

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MindShift

JULY 22, 2018

Blogging on “ Beyond the Shelves, ” Christy Minton tried to rally other librarians: “Instead of purchasing books that you think your patrons will like, why not start ordering books you know teens will love!” Reader Pants,” reports a 36% increase after she genrefied a middle school library in Fort Worth, Texas in 2011.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Sketchnoting is helping make your thinking visible and shareable as you are reading a professional book, watching a movie clip, reading an educational blog post or article or listening to a lecture of conference keynote. Mobile Learning Experience 2011 , 2012 , and 2013 were fantastic opportunities for educators to learn, share, and connect.

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wwwatanabe

JANUARY 6, 2013

The Common Core ELA Writing Standard 8 requires students to navigate the Internet for research and evaluate the validity of the sites to support their claims. Furthermore, Common Core Writing Standard 7 has students conduct research projects, utilizing multiple sources. 21st Century Learning Common Core'

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2015

‘Close reading’ entered the teacher’s lexicon with this Common Core literacy anchor standard: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. PARCC, 2011, p.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Another notable area of growth: the size of the report itself, which has expanded from 66 slides in 2011 to 355 this year , with the number of slides almost doubling in the last year alone. For a quick overview of some of the other stories from other countries, you can read more on the 2017trends.hackeducation.com blog.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 3, 2012

In 2011, she edited two eBooks: School Libraries: What''s Now, What''s Next, What''s Yet to Come (co-edited with Buffy Hamilton) and Information Literacy in the Wild , a compilation of graduate student essays. Buffy Hamilton is a school librarian at Creekview High School’s “Unquiet Library” in Canton, GA. Harada, 2012).

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The Daring Librarian

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Longtime Flocabulary Fangirl I've been a Flocabulary & Week in Rap fangirl since they came on the scene and have blogged about them back in 2009 and 2011.and Every week, sites, companies, and startups email me trying to get me to blog about their product - and while that's really flattering, this blog can't be bought!

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

From the US Department of Education’s blog : “Building the Next Generation of Assessments in Education.” Via the Coursera blog : “Coming soon to all courses: Flexible session-based schedules.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Imperial College London has joined edX.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

“The data we don’t store cannot be stolen from us,” founder Hadi Partovi wrote in a blog post. Pike unleashing pepper spray into the face of peaceful protesters in 2011 weren’t the first thing that people found about the school online. It’s weaponized already, of course.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “After seven years of tumult and transition fueled by the common core, state testing is settling down, with most states rejecting the federally funded PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, and nearly one-quarter embracing the SAT or the ACT as their official high school test.”

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

Via Politico : Stolen “emails from the Democratic National Committee show DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker telling his colleagues to avoid mentioning the Common Core in a video. “The data we don’t store cannot be stolen from us,” founder Hadi Partovi writes in a blog post. Get rid of it.’”

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