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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want from Digital Instruction Tools. Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era. In fact, whereas teachers’ use of textbooks remained approximately the same from 2015 to 2017, their use of digital resources for standards-aligned teaching greatly increased.

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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…. The people at Common Sense Media (makers of Graphite) bring a collection of educator vetted apps.

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

Edsurge

We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. Benefits for students—and teachers.

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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. Galxyz - An innovative mobile app (Android/iOS) for Elementary Science that is COPPA compliant and aligned to Common Core Standards. Be sure to check out JellyBean Writer too!!

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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. This differentiation challenges students at different reading levels while allowing them to access the same information.

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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.

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Technology Integration and the Common Core by Andrew Miller The CCSS call us to integrate technology in intentional and meaningful ways to have students meet rigorous standards. See examples at varying grade levels of successful PBL projects aligned to Common Core and ISTE NET Standards and for various subject areas.