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Top 10 Reasons to Sign Up for Summer Learning with Ask a Tech Teacher

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A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available. Digital portfolios—via wikis.

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Why you should stop testing and start assessing

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Don’t get me wrong, I still assess learning. I just do it in a way in which students often don’t realize that they are being assessed. For ongoing, formative assessment, I ask my students to design, discuss, build, create, present, reflect, and share. Next: How to change assessment practices.

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Lesson Planning Made Easy with myViewBoard Clips

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For example, inside of the STEAM collection there are topics ranging from Area and Perimeter to FinTech in the 21st Century. Each Lesson Plan Outline also includes a full list of applicable standards in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Collections .

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7 Skills Students Need for Today’s Classwork

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By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. 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). Multimedia projects.

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Digital Storytelling and Stories for the Desktop

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It can be used as an authentic assessment. Here are some of the Common Core Standards that digital storytelling and digital stories address: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6 6 Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. Alec Couros has resources and examples posted on his Open Thinking Wiki.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

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Summit, for example, will contribute more than 16,000 comprehensive Common Core-aligned resources for students in sixth through 12th grades in October, and High Tech High has already contributed over 4,000 resources. Teachers and students using Gooru can now adapt these high-quality resources for their classrooms.

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Holiday Activities To Keep the Learning Going

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Click the link for an example of Abraham Lincoln to align with study of the American Civil War. It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. You may offer an example or rubric if those are available.

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