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Three simple steps for creating lesson plans

Hapara

Lesson plans serve as a teacher guideline for what students will learn, why they are learning a skill and how they will learn it and demonstrate their proficiency. The first step to planning an effective lesson is to decide what skill you will teach using the Common Core or state standards specific to your content area and grade level.

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Great Podcast Episodes for Students and Teachers

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That's how I got started -- I wanted to use Serial as a primary text for at least a few weeks, but I wasn't sure how it would fit in with Common Core or how it might affect my students' reading habits. But many aren't sure how to justify using podcasts in the classroom.

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Great Podcast Episodes for Students and Teachers

Graphite Blog

That's how I got started -- I wanted to use Serial as a primary text for at least a few weeks, but I wasn't sure how it would fit in with Common Core or how it might affect my students' reading habits. But many aren't sure how to justify using podcasts in the classroom.

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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

The case-study school’s “emphasis on trial and error, experimentation, and productive failure sat in uneasy alignment to the school’s competency-based curriculum and assessment practices,” the authors wrote. Access to power tools, laptops, computing devices, and digital hardware.

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Digital Storytelling and Stories with the iPad

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It is great differentiation for all students including ELL, gifted, and special needs. It increases student engagement in a meaningful and relevant task. It can be used as an authentic assessment. Common Core Standards Many specific content standards can be addressed through digital stories.

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What Do Sixth Graders Say About Learning With Games? It Works

MindShift

The designers behind Quest to Learn believe that student engagement is so significantly enhanced by narrative role-play, analog games and digital games that every subject — from health to math — begins or ends with a game. Etai peered at the screen of a silver MacBook laptop, his notebook open on the desk next to him.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. In math class, students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, work on laptops but also solve word problems in groups using a white board. Again, students worked in groups. MESA, Ariz.

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