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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Tests were administered via digital devices (though there are options for paper-and-pencil). Besides measuring student achievement, they also were an indicator of school facility to administer green digital tests instead of the traditional paper-and-pencil versions. Common Core requires this. Problem Solving.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

30 minutes each, show how to set up your classroom to be tech-infused. Do you wonder how to set up an effective, exciting, motivating classroom to teach tech? How to create a class internet start page–and why. How to teach a tech lesson. How to talk to stakeholders about tech. Digital note taking in the classroom.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Use yourself as a model of how to perform that activity and ask students for specific directions on how you would complete this task. Before starting, review the digital citizenship associated with visiting an online site (such as privacy, staying on the assigned website, and not talking to strangers).

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AUGUST 9, 2016

30 minutes each, show how to set up your classroom to be tech-infused. Do you wonder how to set up an effective, exciting, motivating classroom to teach tech? How to create a class internet start page–and why. How to teach a tech lesson. How to talk to stakeholders about tech. Digital note taking in the classroom.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

This is the same as the Ask a Tech Teacher resource, 25 Digital Tools in the Classroom You don’t need to purchase both. Topics cover keyboarding, digital citizenship, search/research/ mouse skills, problem-solving, critical thinking, digital devices, shortkeys, reading, classroom of tomorrow, technology skills, and more. .

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AUGUST 16, 2018

This is the same as the Ask a Tech Teacher resource, 25 Digital Tools in the Classroom You don’t need to purchase both. Topics cover keyboarding, digital citizenship, search/research/ mouse skills, problem-solving, critical thinking, digital devices, shortkeys, reading, classroom of tomorrow, technology skills, and more.

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MARCH 31, 2015

It is an in-depth view of topics teachers will instruct over the school year, their pacing, and how they blend with other subjects. In a Common Core school, that covers the math and literacy standards addressed. In other states, it’ll be how lesson plans meet their unique state standards. assessments. assessments.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 28, 2013

However, I believe one of the best are the lessons and activities from Common Sense Media. There are even alignments to the ISTE NETs, AASL, and the English Common Core. Another way to show students the power their digital footprint has is to check out a great interactive from The Discovery Channel, Your Digital Footprint.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

OCTOBER 31, 2014

My students piloted the PARCC last Spring and it became clear that knowing how to effectively navigate through a website will impact student scores on the Common Core assessment. Watch the webinar to see what I do and how I do it. Interested in crowd-sourcing a catalog of digital tools that target specific skills?

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AUGUST 8, 2015

30 minutes each, show how to set up your classroom to be tech-infused. Do you wonder how to set up an effective, exciting, motivating classroom to teach tech? How to create a class internet start page–and why. How to teach a tech lesson. How to talk to stakeholders about tech. Digital note taking in the classroom.

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JULY 22, 2015

Students are expected to collaborate and share online as young as kindergarten when they read digital books or draw pictures using iPad apps. By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. Digital Citizenship. The lesson is an even, stead pacing. Multimedia projects.

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MAY 18, 2015

To students, knowing how to ‘compare and contrast’ sounds academic, not real world, but we teachers know most of life is choosing between options. Common Core Standards recognize the importance of this skill by addressing it in over 29 Standards, at every grade level from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade.

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MARCH 21, 2017

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. Category: Differentiation.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. They failed and tried again. Asked questions.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom. One of the most interesting reads for teachers ready to embrace modern technology is this particular book, which draws from the extensive experience of its authors regarding the use of digital apps, such as Google Apps, in the process of educating the young minds of tomorrow.

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MAY 1, 2018

They can be uploaded to Google Classroom, Schoology, Blackboard, and a selection of other LMSs. How to get started. These can be pushed out as links to Google Classroom, Blackboard, Schoology, and other LMSs. More on college prep: How to Prepare for the SAT. How to Prepare for the SAT Essay. Great stuff.

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JULY 7, 2017

Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach K-8 math skills that are tied to many national standards (like Common Core). It covers foundation skills like addition, subtraction, place value, and measurement and data, and is aligned with international math standards such as the US’s Common Core. How to use the game.

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JANUARY 18, 2016

When you sign up as a teacher, you get a dashboard to manage students and support for Google sign-in. Lesson plans include how-to steps, Common Core alignment, sample storyboard layouts, synopsis, and Essential Questions. . I love using Storyboard That to create avatars as part of a discussion on digital citizenship.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

They may be about how to use wikis or blogs in the classroom or what I’ve learned from my students as we got through another tech week. Digital Citizenship. I’m not sure how to adjust for that… Top Ten Misses. 5 Best Practices for Digital Portfolios. 11 Things I Love About Common Core.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

In this course, teachers will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, critical thinking, and immersive keyboarding. Use technology to support teaching and achieve Common Core Standards.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

So it’s a legitimate question: Who teaches students how to use the school’s digital devices and what training do they get to support that responsibility? How does the school handle an unexpected tech need — say, programming for December’s Hour of Code? Who teaches digital citizenship? .

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AUGUST 23, 2021

In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Obviously, we must continue these important lessons; however, we must realize that digital citizenship encompasses other online behavior, too. It can be hard to get moral compasses to twitch when discussing the intricacies of copyright law, public domain, fair use, and Creative Commons. But remember that John F.

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APRIL 11, 2019

When these “digital natives” show up in my classroom, they have played with iPads and their parents’ smartphones enough to know how to swipe, tap, squeeze, and shake, but they know none of the nuances required to morph the device from a toy to a productivity tool. Here’s how this works.

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MAY 23, 2017

You’ll have a bunch of tech ed skills you can now say ‘I know how to do that’ Like TwitterChats. And Google Hangouts. Is the course content theory or teaching how to teach? Google Apps—students will use various Google apps to take notes, answer polls, complete forms, collect data.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Even in the tech lab, which is my purview, I provide mini-how-to-write lessons before tech projects that include writing. make sure they know all common word processing skills. Do they always use one word processing program like Word, but their online writing requires another, like Google Docs? This includes: keyboarding.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

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MARCH 2, 2015

Tappy Alphabet –fun app to learn letters; available on Google Play. More reading resources: Common Core Reading lesson plans. StoryLines –award-winning game of ‘telephone’ with pictures. Super Readers (fee)–improve reading skills. Young Reader– highly customizable eBook reader and speed reading coach all-in-one.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Use yourself as a model of how to perform that activity and ask students for specific directions on how you would complete this task. Before starting, review the digital citizenship associated with visiting an online site (such as privacy, staying on the assigned website, and not talking to strangers).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

What if there’s a problem you don’t know how to solve, or a question you can’t answer? It’s no longer enough for teachers to know how to keep the hardware working. Now, they need to understand using tech as a tool, where and how to integrate it. Google Apps (24). What if the computers break? reboot, restart ….

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FEBRUARY 16, 2015

How do you decide what is best for your class? Here are guidelines, culled from top education sites like Edutopia, Google Education, Educational Technology, and EdWeek that are valuable when evaluating any website: free or small fee. aligned with Blooms Taxonomy, Common Core, ISTE, or other state/national/international standards.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

First: Don’t roll out blogging in your classroom without educating students on digital citizenship — privacy, profiles, footprints, safety, fair use/copyrights. Another good resource is Common Sense Media. 13 Ways Blogs Teach Common Core. That’s a lot of learning in a few sentences.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Today, many educators want to not only evaluate progress at a point in time but optimize that against the ongoing standards their school mission is built on such as Common Core, International Baccalaureate, NGSE, or TEKS. That’s changing. What is Standards-based Grading. Teachers can add comments to completed assignments.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I''ve been thinking about writing and how to evolve my students into better writers, but to be honest, I don''t really consider myself an accomplished writer. Granted, most of the writing is in short bursts, but I do know that Twitter''s 140 character limit makes me rethink sentence structure and how to be concise.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Use yourself as a model of how to perform that activity and ask students for specific directions on how you would complete this task. Before starting, review the digital citizenship associated with visiting an online site (such as privacy, staying on the assigned website, and not talking to strangers).

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APRIL 19, 2016

Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. empower students to solve common tech problems so they can keep moving forward with their learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Jacqui Murray shares how we can encourage an improvement in writing using technology. These creative ways will help you think about how to help children, particularly those who struggle with handwriting and typing. Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. But I try not to do that.

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