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10 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology

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Common Core tells us: New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. Twitter blasts to remind students of due dates. Try these ten tech uses. You can use Google Forms or the Google calendar.

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9 Ways to Add Tech to your Lessons Without Adding Time to Your Day

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Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. empower students to solve common tech problems so they can keep moving forward with their learning.

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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. Let’s evaluate the Common Core Reading Standards and their good fit with games: What Common Core Expects. I’m asking for exemplars of how Minecraft gamers used Common Core writing standards.

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Last Chance for this College-credit Tech-for-writing Class

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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, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why.

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Subscriber Special: September

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Here are five tools you can start Day One and use throughout the year: 25 Digital Tools in the Classroom. The 56-page 25 Digital Tools in the Classroom is a thorough discussion on which are the most useful tools in any K-8 classroom, classified by appropriate grade level. 65 Posters for Your Classroom.

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Back to School: A Bundle of Lesson Plans at a Great Price

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These five tools (included) help you start Day One and can be used throughout the year: 25 Digital Tools in the Classroom. The 56-page 25 Digital Tools in the Classroom is a thorough discussion on which are the most useful tools in any K-8 classroom, classified by appropriate grade level. Twitter in the Classroom.

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Thirteen Writing-with-Tech Tips You Don’t Want to Miss

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66 Writing Tools for the 21st Century Classroom. Common Core Writing–Digital Quick Writes. 112: 10 Ways Twitter Makes You a Better Writer. a bundle of lessons on support Common Core writing standards. a bundle of lessons on support Common Core writing standards.