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eSpark–Self-paced Learning for Math and Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Each targeted quest curates a collection of third-party apps, webtools, videos, games, and other resources that focus on particular math or reading skills identified by the teacher or from the student’s earlier work as an area of academic need. In fact, some students can be working on Chromebooks while others use iPads.

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How to Teach the Human Body and 16 Sites to Help

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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. Two great iPad apps are DIY Human Body and Arloon Anatomy. 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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To Prepare Kids for Their Futures, Incorporate Technology Into Core Curriculum

Edsurge

Your school just invested in a new set of Chromebooks or iPads. Even in districts without 1:1 devices, digital content can be used to provide context for academic standards and spark classroom discussion and inquiry. Districts should look to solutions that streamline peer feedback, classroom polls, and flexible groupings.

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The Bare Minimum Of Technology Integration

TeachThought - Learn better.

What might be considered a kind of basic standard for education technology in 2016. In theory, it’s not necessary to have any degree of education technology at all, though even that depends on your content area’s academic standards. Here is exactly what the Common Core standards say about technology , for example.).

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

The Hechinger Report

Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system. We should not see a gap for the overwhelming majority of students who have disabilities,” she said. But we do.”.