Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Rather than a two-page printed document that can be lost and serves only one user, a digital portfolio posts your resume online, in an easy-to-understand format. Definitely mention if you can teach robotics, drones, or programming languages. For you as a job hunting educator, this becomes the best time of year to find a job.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 21, 2016

The CommonLit library of more than 440 readings may be browsed or searched by keyword and filtered by such criteria as: recent additions, Lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device demonstrated, and Common Core Reading: Literature standards. ” But what is the definition of “fair”? What is fair?

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

You can find the official definition here. This has been challenging, as each district has designed systems around proficiency-based learning with varying definitions of what it means to “be proficient.” Could we design a system that effectively and explicitly synchronizes the transcript document AND the diploma document?

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Whether your students are already familiar with the collaboration features in other tools (like Google Docs) or they are totally new to this concept, you’ll definitely want to explore this new feature. Well the team at Book Creator has released a brand new feature that lets students collaborate with their peers to create a book together!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

My district has taken on new initiatives the past few years (as all districts do) to solve the well-documented, disconnected nature between high school graduates and workplace preparedness. We have aligned English Language Arts curriculum to the North Dakota Common Core State Standards, and redesigned units to address possible gaps.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

PDF documents. Lessons are aligned to Common Core Standards and explore real life questions. These are definite lessons worth sharing! Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. You can even make your own.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. But the “spying” has continued.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

That decline, recently documented in a survey of math and statistics departments by the Conference Board for Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), is great news for students. Plus the decline in remedial enrollments appeared in 2015, not long after the Common Core State Standards were implemented. million to around 780,000.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 5, 2015

And arguably the greatest weakness of the Common Core Standards is to avoid being extra-careful in their use of cognitive-focused verbs, along the lines of the rationale for the Taxonomy. 5 Common Misconceptions About Bloom’s Taxonomy. We designed UbD, in part, backward from Bloom’s definition of Application.

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wwwatanabe

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

I didn't think much of it because the thought process behind the flowchart was documented on my post titled, Striving for Higher-Order Thinking and Depth of Knowledge. It was a flowchart that worked with many questions patterns we commonly saw, but was not intended to be definitive.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some tools definitely have more potential than others. Simplify communication, collaboration, and document sharing. Bottom line: A solid resource for Common Core math instruction as well as foundational knowledge in a number of other subjects. But just how effective are these tools at helping students learn? Khan Academy.

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Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 66

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Teachers participate in a Common Core training session in Kingsport, Tenn. However, Richard Ingersoll’s research has documented small but steady increases in the number of candidates of color over the last decade. Related: On a classroom-based test for new teachers, black teachers score lower.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The authors’ methods, which rely on creating a comparison with a matched peer group of students, don’t allow for a definite cause-and-effect link between interruptions and test scores.) Vendors’ testing systems should be required to collect and document more data about the nature of interruptions, the authors recommend.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 10, 2015

In an age of shifts and fluidity, this is definitely a “thing.” Humanities as a term has become opaque and abstract, which can be seen in how casually we treat it in education (see the Common Core Standards). To refine their questions. This is why we need to teach the humanities.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 7, 2016

It is part of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, the center documents, interprets, and disseminates information about invention and innovation; encourages inventive creativity in young people; and fosters an appreciation for the central role that invention and innovation play in the history of the United States. .

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some tools definitely have more potential than others. Simplify communication, collaboration, and document sharing Bottom line: Google Classroom is a great way to manage and organize learning, though teachers who need more features may need to look elsewhere. But just how effective are these tools at helping students learn?

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some tools definitely have more potential than others. Simplify communication, collaboration, and document sharing Bottom line: Google Classroom is a great way to manage and organize learning, though teachers who need more features may need to look elsewhere. But just how effective are these tools at helping students learn?

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Graphite Blog

MAY 17, 2018

That's how I got started -- I wanted to use Serial as a primary text for at least a few weeks, but I wasn't sure how it would fit in with Common Core or how it might affect my students' reading habits. Somebody is definitely lying -- but who? But many aren't sure how to justify using podcasts in the classroom.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 17, 2018

That's how I got started -- I wanted to use Serial as a primary text for at least a few weeks, but I wasn't sure how it would fit in with Common Core or how it might affect my students' reading habits. Somebody is definitely lying -- but who? But many aren't sure how to justify using podcasts in the classroom.

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Smartphone Analysis Common Core iPhone 40

MindShift

MAY 25, 2016

“It felt like during the number talk there was some steering towards Kiara’s thinking about a number line, so I’m wondering if other students were thinking number line is something I should definitely be using today.”. Lesson study is a common professional development practice in Japan and is slowly gaining popularity in the U.S.;

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MindShift

JUNE 15, 2016

Mathews, who laments his own failure to record his teenage worries, tells his students that keeping a journal will allow them to write their own history and document their life. This is a unique moment of your life, and you’ll appreciate the document,” Mathews tells his high school students. The podcasts are great,” she said.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 26, 2015

In the news, they are painted as an eclectic mix of cutting-edge vigilante and binary terrorist, with secret documents, scary viral threats, and national security all a part of their tools and struggle. Hack the mainframe, change the school grades, save prom, etc. Reading: Informational. Reading: Literature. Reading: Foundational.

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Saving Socrates

MAY 28, 2014

I will confess this is the impetus behind my next big project- aligning the Common Core and Bloom''s Taxonomy to Judaic studies skills rubrics. HERE IT IS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16iBjLtRPkDtx5bswNdg4xPi2X9zOlKO41ijyPHJrdbk/edit?usp=sharing And yes, we can do better and we must.'

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. Terry Heick offers a definition of digital citizenship as “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.”

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 29, 2015

I use a document camera to help with this, so the class can see the game pieces as we play. I’ve created ready-to-use math partner games for every Common Core domain (except Measurement and Data) for grades 1-5. Definitely worth it so I can spend more of my Christmas break with my family. – Zephyr.

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

1 after an investigation found chapter members repeatedly used racist , homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs , and then ostracized a black member who told them to stop, according to documents released by the university.” ” Speaking of openwashing : “ Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core , Rise of ‘Open’ Resources.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There’s really no agreed-upon definition of “personalized learning” after all , and as such no real way to measure how many or how well schools are actually implementing it. Whatever “it” is.

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