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How to Prepare Students for PARCC/SBACC Tests

Ask a Tech Teacher

I polled my PLN to find specific tech areas students needed help with in preparing for the Assessments. Pay attention to these and your students will be much more prepared for this Spring’s Common Core assessments: Keyboarding. Common Core requires this. It boils down to five tech areas.

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What is the story behind Georgia Test Prep?

Georgia Test Prep

We purchased some books from a local store and also bought some online. We realized that we spent a lot of money on the books for each child and were still not convinced that it was the best we could provide them with. This was becoming tiresome and redundant. And that is what we are here for!!!

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S'Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: IXL, Brightspace, Tales2Go

Edsurge

IXL was great for skill breakdown and practice, easy to find standards based on common core. I use D2L and our system eClass to post resources, classroom calendar of events, discussion posts and online assessments. Dawn: Students needed access to a variety of audio books. Describe how you used the product.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

techlearning

The solution allows teachers to conveniently create and grade tests aligned with Learning Objectives, review student and class performance based on Benchmarks, generate analytical reports and export grade books pre-formatted for LMS input, and much more. Gizmos help prepare students for rigorous new standards and online assessments.

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6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

Think how often keyboarding is part of student work–entering website addresses, adding comments to blogs, typing docs into GAFE, and taking online assessments. An important part of succeeding in core classes is understanding the language. Common Core has three levels of vocabulary: basic. Vocabulary.

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

NeverEndingSearch

All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”

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