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Get Common Core Ready: Achieve Dynamic Student-led Discussions

Catlin Tucker

I use Schoology for our online discussions. It includes my dos and don’t for online communication, strategies students can use to ensure they are saying something substantial online, a collection of online icebreakers, and tips for weaving online work back into the classroom! . Weaving Online Discussions Into the Classroom.

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Study.com Makes the College Dream a Reality for Lots of Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Study.com also offers a special (fee-based) Teacher Edition where educators can set up five virtual classrooms with up to 50 students in each, share class-themed videos, assign lessons and quizzes as homework, grade student work, print out worksheets, and get detailed reports on student progress. Create a classroom (in about ten seconds).

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English + Common Core + Mobile = Success in Learning Poster Session at ISTE 2014

Education with Technology

In my ISTE Sunday 8-10 am poster session, I demonstrate many diverse mobile activities to help students achieve the English Language Arts Common Core Anchor Statements through mobile devices. The mobile activities focus on free common tool apps that are available on both the Android and the iPad.

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Flip Your Back-to-School Night

Catlin Tucker

I explain why I believe it’s important to place students at the center of learning in the classroom and how I use blended learning strategies and technology to create a student-centered learning experience. Virtual Tour of Our Classroom Resources. This is a favorite with parents!

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3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Year’s Lessons

Ask a Tech Teacher

While Common Core and NGSS Standards seem fully fleshed out, other state and international standards aren’t. As its name implies, this program makes it easy to integrate Common Core Standards into your planning. Or how about this scenario: Your school changes their lesson planning tool, say from Edline to Schoology.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The Gates Foundation has backed a variety of education reform initiatives : charter schools, the Common Core State Standards, “small schools,” inBloom, teacher evaluations, and yes, “personalized learning.” Two high-profile coding bootcamps, The Iron Yard and Dev Bootcamp, closed their doors.

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Twelve Years Later: How the K-12 Industry and Investment Landscape Has Shifted (Part 2)

Edsurge

Over years and decades, spending has shifted among these segments: the assessment market grew following the adoption of the Common Core; supplemental spending is catching up with core. The second includes the “platform” players—Schoology, itslearning, Canvas, and other LMS-like platforms. billion or so.