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How to Teach the Human Body and 16 Sites to Help

Ask a Tech Teacher

take a picture of themselves with the iPad camera (or another digital camera). There are also lots of teacher resources to help in using this unit such as lesson plans, training, and academic standards met. An easier version — and well-suited to elementary age students — is Find My Body Parts. BrainPOP Jr.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. Where LAUSD's iPads were used at all, they were used for whole-classroom instruction, just like whiteboards of old. But follow-up studies showed a bigger problem.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works on reading with Tyler Howard, left, and Anthony Diaz, right.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

A fourth-grader makes a puppet while his teammate works on writing a script at Mountain View Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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Apple’s Strongest Case to Reclaim the Education Market Is Not the New iPad

Edsurge

Indeed, the company proved rumors right by unveiling a new iPad. First, the ‘Education’ iPad The big announcement that caught everyone’s eye—and splattered across all the headlines—was the new 9.7-inch inch iPad, unveiled by Apple’s vice president, Greg Joswiak. inch iPad, unveiled by Apple’s vice president, Greg Joswiak.

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TEACHER VOICE: It’s tough to prepare children for kindergarten if parents and teachers don’t collaborate

The Hechinger Report

Since earning my undergraduate, Master’s, and Education Specialist degrees in elementary education, and working toward board certification, at Delta State University, I have observed students who have come from a variety of backgrounds. Kindergarten is not just about students mastering a set of academic standards.”.