Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

We have aligned English Language Arts curriculum to the North Dakota Common Core State Standards, and redesigned units to address possible gaps. The reconfiguring and implementation of these two areas—curriculum and assessment—undoubtedly costs money and time. In his book Why School?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 9, 2016

As you read through them please keep in mind that some were new in 2015. Others were ones that I must have waited until 2015 to discover! Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. Happy New Year! Mike Gorman ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ).

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Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

ELA AND ELL A+ Tools for K-5 Common Core Reading Comprehension. Learn how to use digital creation tools like Shadow Puppet Edu, Kid In Story Book Maker, and Toontastic to encourage social storytelling. . MATH Awesome Digital Tools for K-8 Common Core Math. Blended Learning with Digital Formative Assessment Tools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2015

Summer PD 2015 just ended. Teachers eagerly looked for tech options to traditional ‘fill out this sheet of paper’ approaches to ending class and/or assessing learning. It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. Failed and tried again.

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Digital Citizenship Gamification Common Core Flipped Classroom 150

Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Mobile App Top 50 Sites/Apps of 2015 * Seesaw - Excellent free mobile app (Android/iOS) for students creating digital portfolio w/ educational portal. Help Teaching - A very nice site for educational resources, printables, assessments, and more. Story Shares creates digital books that are customized per Reading Level.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Bob Lenz became CEO of Buck Institute for Education PBLWorks in 2015. He recently authored Transforming Schools: Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment and Common Core Standards. Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies.

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Learning Common Core Training Outcomes 138

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 8, 2015

Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. The Connectory – This is a new STEM opportunity that will open in April 2015, so visit the sight and sign up for their newsletter now.

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STEM Resources Common Core Industry 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. Related: Common Core testing showdown in Massachusetts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 29, 2015

Lesson planning used to mean filling in boxes on a standard form with materials, goals, expectations, assessments–details like that. While Common Core and NGSS Standards seem fully fleshed out, other state and international standards aren’t. It’s not as scalable or flexible as I’d like.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Learn how to use the iPad apps “Book Creator” and “Creative Book Builder” to create and share enhanced/multimedia eBooks using DropBox for free cloud storage/distribution. See examples at varying grade levels of successful PBL projects aligned to Common Core and ISTE NET Standards and for various subject areas.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Be on the lookout for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full.

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Blendspace Resources OER Technology 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Be on the look out for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Books have been written. It’s a question of curation—finding the best content, adapting it for classroom use, integrating it with existing curriculum, incorporating assessment and rubrics, and so on. we have culled our broad and diverse collection of skills into nine domains we call FutureFit. Accordingly, frameworks have been created.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity? What can that look like?

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Genius Bar students from Yorktown High School in Yorktown Heights, New York worked to earn a 3D printer through a Khan Academy, Google, DonorsChoose challenge in 2015, they had no idea they were getting more than a shiny new toy. The first iteration of the palm of a prosthetic hand designed by Samantha Caddauan, Yorktown High School.

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Learning Khan Academy Libraries Common Core 63

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The start of the new school year offers the perfect opportunity to reflect on the life and work of Grant Wiggins, an extraordinary educator who died unexpectedly at the end of the last school year (on May 26, 2015). Use formative assessments and act on their results. He likened formative assessment to tasting a meal while cooking it.

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MindShift

APRIL 6, 2015

The excerpt below is from the book “ Transforming Schools Using Project Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards ” by Bob Lenz, with Justin Wells and Sally Kingston. Copyright ©2015.' This section is from the chapter entitled “Transforming School Systems.”.

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MindShift

AUGUST 24, 2015

” His research became a book, with co-author Brandon Wright, out next month from Harvard Education Press. students are classified as “high achievers” in mathematics, according to the most recent international assessments. ” Copyright 2015 NPR. educating its top performers? His answer: not very.

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E-rate Education Common Core Policies 28

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

While banning books is commonly recognized by librarians as detrimental to the student educational experience, restricted website access isn’t on everyone’s radar. Conduct research to explore the educational uses of social media platforms and assess the impact of filtering in schools. Develop a toolkit for school leaders.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 17, 2015

Stage 2: The teacher crafts a performance task that reliably assesses whether or not each student truly understands the content and skills of focus. This is an activity suggested in Regie Routman’s book Read, Write, Lead (ASCD, 2014). — Matt Renwick (@ReadByExample) June 15, 2015.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

We''re about to announce three additional conferences for 2015: Maker Education, Reinventing Higher Ed, and Digital Citizenship. Citing a combination of dissatisfaction with Common Core implementation and the absence of religious lessons in public education, homeschooling has grown significantly in the past few years in the state.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

” For those interested in reading more, following is a (non-comprehensive) roundup of nine recent books, essays, and research studies exploring Maker education in K-12. The Promise of the Maker Movement for Education (Lee Martin, University of California-Davis, in the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2015.).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 18, 2015

Next class: August 10, 2015. Learn granular approaches to infusing differentiation into all of your lesson plans, whether you’re a Common Core school or not, with this hands-on, interactive class. Next class: July 27th, 2015. 21st, 2015. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

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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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

In particular, what books have we read? This entry is an attempt to compile a useful -- but by no means exhaustive -- list of CBE related books that I personally feel have been either extremely illuminating in pragmatic ways (detailed models, insightful anecdotes, clear "how to's") or it inspired me to stay the course.

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Competency Based Learning Education Blended Learning Common Core 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It was 2015 and Jack Silva, the chief academic officer for the public schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had a problem: Only 56 percent of third-graders in his district had scored proficient on the state reading test. By 2015, the district had turned the corner financially, and Silva was wondering why the reading scores were so terrible.

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Training Elementary Report Study 112

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 8, 2015

On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Here is what the Common Core ELA Standards say: Students who meet the Standards readily undertake the close, attentive reading that is at the heart of understanding and enjoying complex works of literature. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 25, 2015

But in the here and now, the reality is less romantic, and as we head towards the 2015-2016 school year, it’s just might be that teaching is more difficult than it’s ever been before. Curriculum came directly from the book. Teachers used those red hard-cover grade books to keep track of missing assignments and grades.

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Common Core eBook Assessment Social Media 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. More than two-thirds of them are district-run schools.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

20, 2015, NCTE, the National Writing Project, the New York Times Learning Network, and Teaching Channel invite you to celebrate the 7th annual National Day on Writing. And as technology broadens our thinking about what it means to write, it's also extending the audience for our creations further than we ever thought possible.

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Edmodo Common Core Digital Citizenship Exercises 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

officials said their programs were created by “content area specialists” and are aligned to early learning standards and best practices, including those of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the widely adopted Common Core State Standards. Source: Waterford Foundation. I’m pretty shocked,” Cooper said.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

True, 2015 was a record-breaking year for ed-tech funding – over $4 billion by my calculations. The CEO of Safari Books left the company “ amidst massive layoffs.” But even without knowing the funding data for the month of December, I can say a lot. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s CEO resigned.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

million from a business that pulled in almost $1 billion in revenue in 2015 – with no fines, penalties, or admission of wrongdoing. Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 million worth of books last year.

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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. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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