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15 Real-World Lessons You Can Teach Kids NOW

The CoolCatTeacher

Students create budgets, shopping plans, and comparison shopping while learning about the effective use of credit. Designed for grades 7-10, it is also linked with Math and ELA Common Core standards. STEM Subjects. They also dig into careers and understand college financing options. Idea #10 Data Science Foundations.

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Parent Questions About Edtech

Ask a Tech Teacher

There are some parents who equate EdTech with “new math” and Common Core, terms that send shudders through some segments of our population. The comparison is completely unfounded, of course. The new curriculum being taught under STEM and Common Core systems are programs designed to improve how lessons are taught.

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New York’s upstate cities have some of the worst schools in the country

The Hechinger Report

If it were using a Common Core test, for example, New York City could be compared to other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco, Washington and Boston. Related: How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests. You can see the national Common Core standards in action at Franklin.

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Part 1: Tech Resources and Tools for Differentiated Learning … Reading

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Also, check out Newsela for Elementary and note there is a also a comparison of a free and paid version. How to Change the World: Service PBL in the Common Core Literacy Classroom … Amy Conley (Edutopia).

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?How Game-Based Learning Encourages Growth Mindset

Edsurge

Once you are comfortable managing GBL in short segments of class, you might try using games to support flipped classes and blended lessons to provide differentiated learning to all students and collect formative assessment data in real time.

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

NeverEndingSearch

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

The Common Core. Wikileaks – perhaps in cooperation with Russia – releasing stolen emails from the DNC and from Clinton’s campaign. .” ” What are the problems that Trump identified on the campaign trail about education? Political correctness. Foreign students. Government involvement in student loans.