Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 23, 2018

Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 5, 2018

Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Empathy isn’t a subject in most schools and it’s not an explicit part of the Common Core standards, noted Letizia, an English teacher who parlayed the emotional connections of immersion into reading and writing lessons in the power of narrative and authorial point of view. The post Can Virtual Reality “teach” empathy?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

BYOD is often seen as a way of solving budget concerns while increasing the authenticity of learning experiences , while critics point to the problems BYOD can cause for district IT, privacy concerns, and more. Blended Learning. Blended learning is a learning model that combines digital and face-to-face learning experiences.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. What is personalized learning?

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

One of the first curricular tools I built to share—on the first day of school—was a public, student-friendly gradebook on Google Sheets. Yes, this was before Google Classroom existed!) For example, it didn’t integrate with Google Apps, which we had spent the last three years using. My colleagues had mixed feelings about it too.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

Learn about free, research-based curriculum and resources to help teach students safe, responsible, and respectful participants in a digital world, while fostering 21st-century skills and Common Core Standards. Learn more and register here. Digital Passport is available on the web, iOS, and on Google Play.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” Google has released an update to its Course Builder software.

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