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What is G Suite for Education? | What You Need to Know! (FREE Download)

Shake Up Learning

Whether you are brand new to Google or a seasoned user, there are probably a few things you don’t know about G Suite for Education. If you want to become a Google Certified Educator or Trainer, you need to learn the basics of G Suite for Education. (It Get This Information in a FREE Google Doc. 24/7 Access. Collaborative.

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24 classroom games to make student learning FUN

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Looking for new ways to review learning, discuss questions, formatively assess, and be more playful with learning? These games enforce academic learning because they are a method of formative assessment that is not a paper quiz. Best for secondary (grades 6-12). Scroll down for secondary games).

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The Cost Trap, Part 3

Iterating Toward Openness

The second, which is my path, is to make common cause with others who are working on solving the problem of the cost of attending a post-secondary institution, like Martha Kanter , Morely Winograd , and others making slow but steady progress eliminating tuition as a barrier to students. That can’t comparison shop.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. That was certainly the case in our experience. What’s the evidence?

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Common Core: Addressing Text Complexity through Digital Resources

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The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) issued a letter informing us they will increase the text complexity as well as higher Lexile levels on the current AIMS test this year to help transition to the PARCC assessment. One of my colleagues suggested that students just Google the answers, which is why teachers shy away from the Internet.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s. “I wouldn’t have been able to use that strategy at the secondary level,” she said. “We know how to do it.”

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. According to Edsurge , changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will soon be another “ win for ed-tech vendors.”