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7 Skills Students Need for Today’s Classwork

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Creating an online graphic organizer on the animal kingdom doesn’t necessarily conflate with knowing how to compare-contrast (a skill mentioned thirty-eight times by Common Core between kindergarten and eighth grade). Digital Citizenship. Let’s face it: Students are on social media or will be soon.

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Why and How Students Can Blog

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Students collaborate by commenting on the posts of others and/or co-writing a blog themed to a particular topic, taking turns posting articles. First: Don’t roll out blogging in your classroom without educating students on digital citizenship — privacy, profiles, footprints, safety, fair use/copyrights.

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What parents should ask teachers about technology

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Who teaches digital citizenship? . Teach digital citizenship is easily done either through dedicated platforms like Common Sense Media and Netsmartz , or a full-blown curriculum like this one from Structured Learning. For Common Core schools: How do they prepare students to succeed with online testing?

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The Fun of IFTTT

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It uses a simple statement that will turn all the social media mavens into engineers—IF THIS THEN THAT. Grammaropolis is aligned with both national Common Core standards and Texas Expected Knowledge and Skills Objectives for grades K-6. compile news articles for a research project. – See more at: [link].

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Online Classes! On Your Schedule

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In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. digital citizenship. digital commerce. digital communications.

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169 Tips That Easily and Quickly Integrate Tech into Your Class

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Now, it’s about using tech to redesign and modify tasks (see my articles on the SAMR model here and here ). If you’re a veteran teacher integrating technology into units of inquiry and/or Common Core State Standards, these tips will be invaluable. Social media (4). close-reopen …. Parents (3). Pedagogy (16).

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Parent Questions About Edtech

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You won’t want to miss this article: Parents are aware that classrooms nowadays are much different than when they went to school a generation ago. There are some parents who equate EdTech with “new math” and Common Core, terms that send shudders through some segments of our population.

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