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Core Tech for Learning with ELA Common Core #ISTE2014

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One of the #ISTE2014 sessions I attended was "Core technologies for the Common Core" by Kyle Brumbaugh and Elizabeth Calhoon. They had a great introduction to the Common Core and a plethora of helpful tools. Lexile : This site helps you find the lexile range, and recommended books for that range.

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Kids become teachers: Helping out at a Senior Center

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develop and hone the ability to analyze, interpret, and synthesize information. develop language skills to present information. Discuss with students how this supports Common Core’s “Capacities for the Literate Individual”: Demonstrate independence. search for information on areas of interest. Go to [link].

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MLA Commons CORE and Open Access

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Humanities CORE will connect a library-quality repository for sharing, discovering, retrieving, and archiving digital work with Humanities Commons, a developing platform for collaboration among scholarly societies and other humanities organizations. While Humanities CORE hasn’t launched, the MLA CORE beta is open.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Conference Volunteering - Libraries! - Google Excitement - Common Core Film

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Library 2.014 - October 8th + 9th. We are gearing up for another amazing year of the Library 2.014 Conference.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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” 2010 was also the year that the Common Core Standards Initiative was enacted in response to numerous indicators of low student academic performance. CIPA requires schools and libraries to install measures to protect children from obscene or harmful content in exchange for discounts offered by the E-rate program.

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10 Most Popular Tech Tips and Click-throughs in 2017

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What are Common Core keyboarding standards? Those are the links included in posts that take you out of Ask a Tech Teacher’s site to another location where you’ll find valuable information. Which links my readers select tells me a lot about the type of information they’re looking for.

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How Genrefication Makes School Libraries More Like Bookstores

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For 12 years Jennifer Taylor watched kids come into the library at McCaffrey Middle School in Galt, California and struggle: “We’d have rows and rows of books, and they don’t know what to pick.” After a while, they’d ask her something like, “Where are the scary books?”. Or where’s this or that.” Gail Cornwall).