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Shifts and Issues Associated With The Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

I attended another session on the Common Core State Standards today at the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference entitled Educator Readiness for the Common Core: ASCD Findings from Select States. Change Common Core Opinion' Their number one concern is the technological capacity to teach and assess students.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

It’s a 6-lesson course that gathers coworkers to discuss trending educational topics and philosophies, and our colleagues have found that it has been helpful in helping them succeed in their roles. Then as a group, we try on different perspectives and opinions of how Common Core assessments are shifting the focus of American education.

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S'Cool Tools of the Week: Resources for Addressing Bullying and Developing Empathy

Edsurge

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. This collection of free and easy-to-use resources brings together anti-bias social justice content with lesson plans and instructional presentations aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

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If You Want Equity in the Classroom, Above-Average Readers Need Intervention Too

Edsurge

In 2010, New Jersey adopted Common Core standards. Learn more about Marlboro Township's impressive results and download a case study. So it gives you a very high-level view of the trends, and then you can go in and dig a little deeper where you want to. Why is differentiation important?

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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

Few trends in K-12 ed tech are as hot–or as under-researched–as “Maker” education. While exciting, that trend has begat a number of questions and tensions, many of which are just now beginning to be explored by researchers. Popular ‘Maker Movement’ Incompatible With Common Core, Authors Contend.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Collaborating with faculty members to teach information literacy in a public health second year seminar: A case of instruction - Xan Goodman 10:00pm Classroom Resources for K12 Educators: Integrating Information Literacy Skills and Common Core and State Standards into Designing Innovative Project Based Curricula - Melda N.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. This is part three of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. Everything’s a business opportunity. Icon credits: The Noun Project