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What Parents Need To Know About the Common Core (technology tips included)

Saving Socrates

What Parents Need to Know About the Common Core and How They Can Help Their Children The Common Core is an attempt to nationalize the curriculum creating common core standards in grades K-12. assessments Common Core computers content critical thinking knowledge NON-FICTION PARCC parents skills vocabulary'

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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

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. Great teachers are the key to developing authentic tasks for students to apply what they have learned and assessing to provide feedback.

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Which Remote Learning Tools Will Teachers Bring Back In Person?

Graphite Blog

The coronavirus pandemic has come with specific challenges for teachers: Keeping students engaged during hybrid or fully remote learning, addressing systemic inequity and the digital divide, and coping with days of seemingly endless multitasking are just a few among so many other obstacles. Screencastify and the power of voice.

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A guest post from AASL’s Banned Websites Awareness Day Committee

NeverEndingSearch

Establish a digital repository of Internet filtering studies. Conduct research to explore the educational uses of social media platforms and assess the impact of filtering in schools. Linked to the Common Core Standards for high school. Develop a toolkit for school leaders.

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Week of March 28, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

learncentral.org/event/143030/ APPLES AND ORANGES: EMPLOYEE SKILLS ASSESSMENT DRIVING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE (Elluminate) Wed 30 Mar 01:00PM New York / Wed 30 Mar 05:00PM GMT / Thu 31 Mar 05:00AM Sydney Ajay Pangarkar. tools that can be used to assist teachers and schools in closing the digital-divide and most importantly, the achievement gap.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” Via NPR : “Beyond DeVos , What 5 Key Trump Appointees Could Mean For Schools.” ” (Not on the list but certainly important to watch, particularly for ed-tech, the head of the FCC.).