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

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These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. Price includes course registration and all necessary materials. Price includes course registration and all necessary materials. Course Objectives. What You Get. 3 college credits. Who Needs This.

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

Edsurge

Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology. The primary goal of the course is to start conversations that continue throughout an employee’s tenure.

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What Are the Real Motives Behind the Common Core State Standards? Let's Be Honest with Ourselves!

The 21st Century Principal

Today, there was this post on the Public School Forum of North Carolina website defending the Common Core. I am a skeptic about the Common Core, not because I do not believe in the need to have higher standards. The Common Core is "more rigorous than North Carolina''s previous standards."

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Last Chance for this College-credit Class

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These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. Price includes course registration and all necessary materials. Course Objectives. This course is designed for educators who: are looking for new ways to help students unlock their inner writer.

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Please Stop Calling It “Digital Content”!

More Verbs

As they should, educators are searching for online courses, apps, programs and software that will help them teach their students. To me, digital content is a PDF of the Common Core, the Maine Learning Results, or your state’s standards. Alternately, I refer to online courses, apps, programs, etc.,

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How AI is Changing Writing: Check out Robot Don

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The benefits of technology usage in schools are vast, including everything from grading tests to analyzing weak spots in courses, providing improvement suggestions. One of these writing assistants is Robot Don, an AI-driven software which we are going to discuss in this article. Common Core and writing –lesson plans.

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What Parents Need To Know About the Common Core (technology tips included)

Saving Socrates

What Parents Need to Know About the Common Core and How They Can Help Their Children The Common Core is an attempt to nationalize the curriculum creating common core standards in grades K-12. What does this practically mean? This test will be conducted online. This learning curve will need to be addressed.