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10 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology

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Common Core tells us: New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. Twitter blasts to remind students of due dates. differentiate teaching for students with different learning styles.

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Subscriber Special: More MLK

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Designed for grades 4-7, it’s aligned with Common Core and ISTE Standards. . Common Core and ISTE alignment. resources. –Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Essential Question. materials required.

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Subscriber Special: 2 Free Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans

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Designed for grades 4-7, it’s aligned with Common Core and ISTE Standards. . Common Core and ISTE alignment. resources. –Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Essential Question. materials required.

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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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If the teacher wants to use games to learn history, Minecraft won’t throw students into a fully fleshed simulation of the American Revolution. The real reason we read is to learn, experience new adventures, find out what’s over the next horizon. Players learn by doing, failing, trying again. Allow me to change that.

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

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Even the ones who love it put in lots of extra time to do one or more of the following: learn tech tools and then teach their students. learn tech tools only to discover it’s not what they need. learn a tech tool they love only to have it either disappear or switch to a fee-based program. Even if it’s Minecraft.

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Hour of Code? Here’s why to participate

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December 7-12th, 2020, Computer Science Education will host the Hour Of Code–a one-hour introduction to students on coding, programming, and why they should love it, designed to demystify “code” and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, and an innovator. Why Should Students Learn Computer Science?

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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. What You Get. 3 college credits.