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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

This means that there are more concepts, terms, and trends in education that teachers need to be aware of - but how do you keep track of them all? Keep reading to discover the meaning of some of the most common trends in Edtech. Edtech is being used in classrooms more than ever before.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

This means that there are more concepts, terms, and trends in education that teachers need to be aware of - but how do you keep track of them all? Keep reading to discover the meaning of some of the most common trends in Edtech. Edtech is being used in classrooms more than ever before.

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want from Digital Instruction Tools. Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era. Teachers are supported with research-based instructional strategies designed to increase student engagement as they make meaningful connections with content. What Do Educators Want?

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Renaissance Launches Major Updates to Star Spanish Assessments

eSchool News

Renaissance also released a learning progression aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in Spanish and plans to release versions for the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) en Español and the California CCSS en Español next month. In addition, Renaissance is releasing Focus Skills for Spanish.

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6 EdTech Resources and Strategies to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Students

EdTechTeacher

Used primarily in Elementary schools, with increasing use in Middle Schools, iReady is an adaptive learning software that provides online assessments, instruction and lesson resources for educators. Data from iReady helps differentiate instruction in Math. To track class data on Ready Common Core lessons we use Formative.

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Top 100 Sites/Apps of 2014

Technology Tidbits

As w/ the previous year''s list, more and more mobile apps are making the list as mobile learning continues to be the rising trend in education. Gooru - A great place for students to find study guides on a wide range of subjects that are aligned to Common Core Standards and ideal for personalized learning. iPads/Chromebooks).

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

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? Differentiated instruction was conceived in the 1950s.