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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. Then as a group, we try on different perspectives and opinions of how Common Core assessments are shifting the focus of American education.

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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

To date, these statistics are: 140 million+ lessons delivered, 500 million+ exercises done, and 6+ million unique visits per month. The Khan Academy site now contains over 3000 videos mapped to the Common Core and associated assessments that allow learners to practice and reinforce skills acquired through the videos.

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Multiple Choice

Digital Promise

a vibrant and accessible teaching guide packed with strategies for implementing Common Core standards using UDL. This is a fun exercise for students who are already active on Twitter, and also a good counting lesson for younger students. Here, we excerpt five of those ideas: “Tweet” Your Knowledge.

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Part 4: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Math

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Before investigating these resources, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. Lessons are aligned to Common Core Standards and explore real life questions. Find standards-aligned content and assign practice exercises, videos and articles.

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Practical examples of social media in elementary school

The Innovative Educator

I often post assignments for either in-class exercises or vacation homework. Using a blog hits many important curriculum areas, such as differentiating instruction as well as meeting many Common Core Standards (see here & here for examples). For that, Twitter is a fantastic platform.

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Free K-2 Earth Environmental Education Curriculum Now Available

TeachThought - Learn better.

Kindergarten through second grade teachers can now access free Think Earth materials at www.thinkearth.org to teach students about the environment and the everyday behaviors that can help protect it. Materials include a teacher’s guide, posters, handouts, practice exercises, videos, and songs.

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Freedom, Autonomy, and Digital Media at an Indiana High School

Educator Innovator

I found Woodard when I noticed that she had retweeted me and was following me on Twitter (personal learning networks are about who pays attention to you as well as who you pay attention to). Her Twitter profile led to her blog , which could have been written by someone twice her age.