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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era. Many turn to standards-aligned digital resources for use in the classroom as an alternative to textbooks that are not directly aligned. These are key components to success in the classroom and beyond. Why Do They Want It? To Meet Students’ Needs!

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Reflecting on 2015… Ten Resources I Found Valuable

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

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! Reflecting on 2015… Ten Resources I Found Valuable (This is just a small listing of ten…. A great resource for the digital classroom! My past and future posts will reveal even more!) .

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SMATH: How to Turn 2 Subjects Into 1 Super-Class

Edsurge

But with so much happening in our individual classrooms, we teachers often don’t take our own good advice. We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. Although we’d love to have one huge classroom, we just don’t have the space.

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Top 50 Sites/Apps of 2015

Technology Tidbits

Mobile App Top 50 Sites/Apps of 2015 * Seesaw - Excellent free mobile app (Android/iOS) for students creating digital portfolio w/ educational portal. WhatsDue - A cool new free mobile app (iOS/Android) for keeping students and parents up to date on what is happening in the classroom. Scratch). .

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Common Core Reading Resource: Smithsonian Tween Tribune

Catlin Tucker

Interested in more technology tips to help you teach the Common Core? My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Just in time for summer reading! I’m always on the look out for great resources to support reading.

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Create Multimedia eBooks in a 1 iPad Classroom by Wesley Fryer Enhanced eBooks on iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches can include audio, video, and interactive animations in addition to digital text, images and links. Learn how to evaluate digital games for effectiveness in the classroom and learn the difference between an App and a Game.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

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? Differentiated instruction was conceived in the 1950s. When Dan D.