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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. MTI 558: Teach Writing With Tech.

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Last Chance for this College-credit Class

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Educators participate in this three-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to 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.

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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. ” 1:1 + Common Core = $$$$$. All Common Core testing will be done online. Indeed, $2.3 Ironically, the cloud brought us light.

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8 Essential Books Every Tech-Minded Teacher Should Read

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The authors of this book has extensive experience and an impressive resume when it comes to clever and unorthodox ways of educating children, starting with his work at Sesame Workshop, which has given us Sesame Street , as well as work for The George Lucas Educational Foundation. More education books: Google Apps Meets Common Core.

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Online Classes! On Your Schedule

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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. Minimum enrollment of 5; delivered digitally to your school or District.

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Looking for a Class Robot? Try Robo Wunderkind

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That done, I started building the Driver project detailed in the Robo Live Workshop. There’s also a separate set of activities for afterschool programs, summer camps, and workshops. The first step was for the app to recognize my Robo, which it didn’t. Turns out, I needed a quick firmware update, delivered via WiFi.

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How to Create a Curriculum Map

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According to Education World , a Curriculum Map is… … a process for collecting and recording curriculum-related data that identifies core skills and content taught, processes employed, and assessments used for each subject area and grade level. – Education World: Virtual Workshop: Curriculum Mapping. assessments.

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