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Kids become teachers: Helping out at a Senior Center

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Discuss with students how this supports Common Core’s “Capacities for the Literate Individual”: Demonstrate independence. read ebooks from an iPad or a phone app. insights about and analysis of information. Nothing makes knowledge more authentic than being able to teach it to others. Build strong content knowledge.

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Digital Badges: Better Than Grades?

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The final grade in a course or even a ten week grade probably does not reflect the actual academic learning.These grades may not reflect the academic standards (Common Core, standards or proficiencies) for that course. English Common Core Mobile Activities ebook.

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Want to Code on an IPad? Here are 3 Great Apps

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sequencing–knowing what happens when; mentioned in Common Core standards for grades 1 through 5. No surprise the United Kingdom took the bold step of adding coding to the core school curriculum. As they improve, they level up, adding if-then analysis to their decision matrix, and the course gets more complicated.

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

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Design thinking is an approach to learning that includes considering real-world problems, research, analysis, conceiving original ideas, lots of experimentation, and sometimes building things by hand. Many of those same qualities are goals of the Common Core State Standards. The Design Thinking Process.

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How Social Reading Enhances the #CCSS

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ReadUps are “Meetups” inside Books Here are some ways ReadUps can be used to implement the Common Core 1. Detailed analysis of the work CCSS has a focus on critical thinking. Based in NYC, she has been working for 15 years on a number of web, ebook, education and mobile-related projects. CCSS Literacy and Technology'

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5 School-Wide Reading and Writing Tech Tools to Consider

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Both admin and teachers can also see where their students fall in comparison to other Newsela students in regards to reading-level achievements and Common Core standards. All pre-loaded prompts are Common Core-aligned. Graphs show average quiz scores and the total number of quizzes taken class-wide and for each student.

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WriteWell for Google Docs: Google Add-Ons and Chrome Extensions for Research, Writing, and Feedback (Part 1)

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These templates can be incorporated into a wide range of student writing activities and are well suited to Common Core writing tasks. Literary Analysis. WriteWell for Google Docs is a Google Docs Add-on that includes a series of templates for elementary school, middle school, and high school classrooms. Get Add-ons” will appear.

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