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Integrate OUR Curricula into Your Kiddom Digital Platform

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Its pages are visual and easy-to-understand, enabling teachers to quickly create lesson plans, find targeted resources, and determine how students are doing. Open Up Resources (OUR) is a series of free c ompetency-based Common Core-aligned curricula (math, ELA, and reading). Click here for my full review.

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Do-It-Yourself Professional Development

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From polls to digital tools, the articles, resources, and videos can help reshape or clarify the role technology plays in everyday assessment. If You Are a Librarian or EdTech Coach: Start with the Digital Citizenship Curriculum. Start by picking a target grade level, then the unit you believe your students need the most.

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Do-It-Yourself Professional Development

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From polls to digital tools, the articles, resources, and videos can help reshape or clarify the role technology plays in everyday assessment. If You Are a Librarian or EdTech Coach: Start with the Digital Citizenship Curriculum. Start by picking a target grade level, then the unit you believe your students need the most.

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Join #TeachDoNow Summer MOOC

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In #TeachDoNow, participants will engage in weekly discussions designed to promote deep discussions among formal and informal educators. The topics to be covered include: civic discourse, mobile technology in the classroom, student safety and digital citizenship, visual communication, 21st century communication and connected learning.

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6 Stand-alone Lesson Plans for Subs

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Your prep: Provide access to classroom Smartscreen so sub can draw and label the digital student. Students engage in a gameshow-style competition to assess student knowledge on a specific or general topic. More free lesson plans: Common Core Writing–Digital Quick Writes. Gameshow Competition.

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5 Tech Tools to Inspire Reading

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An intuitive website and/or app 1) has an easy-to-understand start-up screen that clearly identifies how to use the tool, 2) the process for using the tool is similar to others the students is familiar with, and 3) the student can independently launch and operate the web tool or app without requiring an adult. is it user-friendly ?

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It’s Time for Social Studies to Make a Comeback. Here Are 3 Insights for Educators.

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But we must also remember that history is just one piece of social studies: we need to provide students with insights into contemporary society through guided discussion of current events, pairing this with other social studies content to provide broader historical context and perspective. Focus on student engagement above all.

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