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MAY 26, 2017

Blended learning occurs when an education program combines Internet-based media with traditional classroom methods. But blended learning is more than simply replacing lectures and books with web-based technology. Digital books are aligned with state standards and Common Core. Student blogs.

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JULY 22, 2016

With Common Core’s emphasis on understanding and explaining tasks, screencasts are a great way for both students and teachers to share the required steps in completing a math problem, collaborate on close reading, or pursue any other literacy activity. Provide video evidence of class activities in a flipped classroom.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

Common Sense team members and certified educators presented on a range of practical and engaging ways to use specific technology tools for learning as well as our latest and greatest digital citizenship offerings. . DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP Digital Passport: Digital Safety for Elementary School Kids .

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 9, 2016

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Check out my Booking Page. I am now just about booked through the end of February and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Bottom line: As a flipped-classroom or student-creation tool, this tool offers lots of opportunities for use, but teachers will need to be creative if they want students to engage. Unlimited Books for Kids. Free, expansive digital library unlocks treasure trove of books. Khan Academy. Khan Academy Kids.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Crop, customize, and remix online video content with interactive tool Bottom line: As a flipped-classroom or student-creation tool, this tool offers lots of opportunities for use, but teachers will need to be creative if they want students to engage. Unlimited Books for Kids. Khan Academy. Khan Academy Kids. TIME for Kids.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Crop, customize, and remix online video content with interactive tool Bottom line: As a flipped-classroom or student-creation tool, this tool offers lots of opportunities for use, but teachers will need to be creative if they want students to engage. Unlimited Books for Kids. Khan Academy. Khan Academy Kids. TIME for Kids.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Actively Learn is a freemium online education platform that allows students to read a book (or some other document), make comments, answer questions posed by the teacher, and even collaborate with others. in a flipped classroom to upload texts, articles, and multimedia resources. as homework or independent reading.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

Wednesday, April 30th at 4pm Free BrainPOP Webinar: ELLs and the Common Core , Are you an ESL teacher struggling to address the Common Core? Saturday, May 3rd at 12pm Classroom 2.0 LIVE Weekly Show , Classroom 2.0 As always, guests from other states are welcome to attend. Learn more and register here.

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JUNE 13, 2016

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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APRIL 6, 2015

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends…”. ? how to read a book. Not a surprise, Statistic Brain says 80% of adults did not buy a single book in the past year ( Pew reports it as 77%). It alleviates boredom in the bits of free time that pop up between soccer and dinner and it can be done alone or in a group.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2015

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with students 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 time for. Digital portfolios—via wikis.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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