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9 Ways to Add Tech to your Lessons Without Adding Time to Your Day

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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. have online libraries included with student resources. have online libraries included with student resources.

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Why Game Based Learning Is the Right Choice for Remote Teaching

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SplashLearn is an easy-to-use COPA-compliant, Common Core-aligned math curriculum for grades Kindergarten-5th that uses game-based learning to teach mathematical concepts. Online Reading –when the classroom library isn’t available, use one of the many online libraries or story collections to inspire reading.

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Kids become teachers: Helping out at a Senior Center

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Discuss with students how this supports Common Core’s “Capacities for the Literate Individual”: Demonstrate independence. This can be done via Google Hangouts if that works better. Second : create a how-to library of class videos for the senior center, uploaded to their website. Build strong content knowledge.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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” 2010 was also the year that the Common Core Standards Initiative was enacted in response to numerous indicators of low student academic performance. CIPA requires schools and libraries to install measures to protect children from obscene or harmful content in exchange for discounts offered by the E-rate program.

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52 Resources for Read Across America Day

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Here are seven online libraries with a wide variety of free/fee books: Bookopolis. International Library. Open Library. Tappy Alphabet –fun app to learn letters; available on Google Play. More reading resources: Common Core Reading lesson plans. Stories—non-text. Story Scramble. Storytime for me.

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Storyboard That–Digital Storyteller, Graphic Oranizer, and more

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Students can map out ideas, write stories, or relay events in a comic format using Storyboard That’s huge library of backgrounds, characters, text boxes, shapes, and images. When you sign up as a teacher, you get a dashboard to manage students and support for Google sign-in.

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3 Comic Creators That Will Wow Your Students

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It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing in a fun, agile way that appeals to students. Once joined, students follow step-by-step instructions to create either a comic strip, a digital story, or a graphic novel. FriendStrip.