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How to Prepare Students for PARCC/SBACC Tests

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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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Preparing Students with Technology Skills

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Jeff Meyer, Director of Education at Learning.com, during a recent edWebinar , underscored that while this generation of students is growing up using technology, they generally lack the digital literacy skills they need for success by the time they enter high school. Keyboarding and Digital Essentials. Technology Applications.

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6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers

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Knowing that, there are six Best Practices teachers in the trenches suggest for integrating technology into classroom instruction: Digital Citizenship. Many schools now provide digital devices for students, often a Chromebook or an iPad. If you’re looking for a curriculum on digital citizenship for K-8 , click the link.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR.