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How Technology Should Have Already Changed Your Teaching

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In the library, down the hall, from any room in the school, from any school in the district. Yes, you’ve got a pile of academic standards that have to be mastered. Grant Wiggins has a great analogy for standards—building code. No texting, twitter, etc. Yes, this sounds like crazy talk. Or their extended family.

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IBM Foundation launches free online software to help K-5 teachers prepare math lessons and help students learn.

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Teacher Advisor then dips into its library of 1,000+ videos and lesson plans, all based on national standards and vetted by top educators. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. The software, called Teacher Advisor with Watson , uses Watson artificial intelligence technology to help teachers instantly find math resources.

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Change The Conversation–It’s Not About The Thinking

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Content-based academic standards. Let’s pretend for a moment that we will eventually be able to design a system of teaching and learning where every single student will be able to master every single academic standard their local government has set out for them. The 3D printer in the library? by Terry Heick.