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13 Tips to Solve Unusual Problems

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In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Here’s a poster with the strategies.

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6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program

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Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. As they work, students “…construct viable arguments and critique reasoning of others…” More specifically (Common Core Appendix C): introduce claim. Once resources have been collected, present to the group for discussion.

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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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Let’s evaluate the Common Core Reading Standards and their good fit with games: What Common Core Expects. I’m asking for exemplars of how Minecraft gamers used Common Core writing standards. Of all Minecraft’s educational strengths, this may be the greatest. Allow me to change that.

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In Love with Space? Here are Great Websites to Take You There

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Educational Application. Age group: MS and HS. Grammaropolis is aligned with both national Common Core standards and Texas Expected Knowledge and Skills Objectives for grades K-6. Educational Applications. Age group: High school and college. Educational Applications. Age group: K-8. Cost: Free.

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

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Educators participate in this five-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop to learn about widely-available digital tools that will help their students develop their inner writer. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. MTI 558: Teach Writing With Tech.

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Book Review: Repositioning Educational Leadership

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Repositioning Educational Leadership. The idea of using inquiry to drive change is both inspired common sense and not entirely obvious. That’s why when I heard about Repositioning Educational Leadership: Practitioners Leading from an Inquiry Stance (Teachers College Press 2018), I was thrilled to read it. by James Lytle et al.

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Kids become teachers: Helping out at a Senior Center

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As schools look ahead to serving not just student needs, but the greater needs of their community and world, service learning becomes an increasingly important part of high school education. In any number of homes and schools across the nation, students are more comfortable with using digital devices than many adults.