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Station Rotation Model in Action (Video)

Catlin Tucker

I highlighted the benefits of working directly with small groups of students, using technology and station design to differentiate instruction, and maximizing the limited technology available in our low-tech classroom. Before using StudySync, I was limited to the texts available on my campus in our school library.

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5 edtech resources that support literacy in elementary school

eSchool News

The tools and resources my students use must generate discussion and are often used in a team or partner setting, as I strongly believe that student interaction supports our instructional goals. It provides sentence starters and lessons are based on Common Core Standards. This helps to differentiate instruction.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

You can also share specific texts with individual students or small groups to differentiate instruction and personalize learning. “Interactive Middle School Math 7” This middle school math online textbook aligns to the Common Core State Standards. Kindergarten digital textbooks.

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PROJECTPALS REVIEW

techlearning

Project Pals also provides a resource bank of Common Core-aligned lesson plans so teachers can drag and drop content to differentiate instruction. Using the publishing and sharing features, finished work can be shared with a school or district library. Common Core-aligned projects can be reused and shared.

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Top 25 Sites/Apps of 2019

Technology Tidbits

This is a great way for educators to assess learning and differentiate instruction. Teachers can use Parlay in a number of different ways such as: browsing through a robust library of discussion prompts (w/ resources), creating a online roundtable, or by creating a "live" verbal roundtable.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core?

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

Edsurge

As I gained more experience teaching, I realized the most effective curriculum for students should provide a variety of options for assessment and instruction. They could easily access a library of lessons and assessments I’d created from scratch, or use. Eight Resources for Designing Competency-Based Curriculum.