The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Initially, teachers entrenched in traditional teaching were outraged at the prospect of students skipping library day in favor of a few searches on a computer; journalists predicted that computers would never replace aspects of the traditional classroom (such as this Newsweek article from 1995 ).

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Tools Classroom Libraries Assessment 120

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 1st A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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Libraries Common Core Classroom Digital Citizenship 59

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Besides Math Standards, Alice supports these Common Core writing skills: 8.3a If students get stuck, they can go through Alice online documentation, Help files, or ask for assistance from classmates. Users create a recipe by choosing a trigger channel from IFTTT’s library, then a trigger, and finally an action channel.

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iPad Common Core Digital Citizenship Examples 196

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 16, 2016

When done editing, students can add music from an included royalty-free library. Besides saving their own masterpieces, students can view the works of other students in the walled garden of their private Storybird library. The site works on most digital devices and is Common Core-aligned. Sound confusing? VoiceThread.

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Tools Adobe Exercises Mobility 150

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MARCH 9, 2015

In addition to its free on-demand digital library filled with popular books, Curriculet now allows students to read news articles with embedded assessments that develop literacy skills and build subject area knowledge. Known as "curriculets," these integrated checkpoints focus on specific skills and Common Core Standards.

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Common Core Smartphone Chromebook Data 60

User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

If there is a makerspace in your school, it may be down the hall, in the library, or in another building. Many of those same qualities are goals of the Common Core State Standards. This is typically done by sharing documentation of learning and final reflections through social media. Post by Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D.

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UDL STEM Tools Guidelines 275

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 21, 2016

The CommonLit library of more than 440 readings may be browsed or searched by keyword and filtered by such criteria as: recent additions, Lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device demonstrated, and Common Core Reading: Literature standards.

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OER Common Core Facebook Strategy 40

techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

I feature tools like Adobe Spark in my books Tasks Before Apps: Designing Rigorous Learning in a Tech-Rich Classroom and Taming the Wild Text: Literacy Strategies for Today’s Reader because they are open-ended creation tools and give students the flexibility to document their learning in a variety of ways.

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Adobe Classroom Social Media Common Core 42

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

PDF documents. MIT Blossoms – All of the lessons in the MIT Blossoms library have been contributed by BLOSSOMS partners from around the world. Lessons are aligned to Common Core Standards and explore real life questions. Discover a site that will help you achieve this goal of real world application.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

All of our lessons tie to Common Core, AASL, and ISTE standards. Students can take the assessment and then share their table of results with you -- an easy way to document your efforts in regards to E-rate funding. The "Library" lessons are no longer part of our Scope & Sequence. Many also incorporate videos!

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Digital Citizenship E-rate Common Core Assessment 40

Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Teachers can use Parlay in a number of different ways such as: browsing through a robust library of discussion prompts (w/ resources), creating a online roundtable, or by creating a "live" verbal roundtable. NowComment - A great learning tool where educators can annotate on any type of document to facilitate learning.

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Differentiated Instruction Game-Based Learning Common Core Mobility 28

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

6.6 ) By 3rd grade, Common Core discusses the use of keyboarding to produce work, i.e., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 which specifically mentions ‘use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills)’ keyboarding is required to take Common Core Standards assessments in the Spring. for example.

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Common Core Classroom Digital Citizenship Examples 355

Graphite Blog

AUGUST 16, 2016

Discovery Education has lots of visual materials (videos, video clips, documents, slides) on specific topics that can be kept in files on the site. NCTM Illuminations is a free site that has a huge library of high-quality math units/lessons provided by great math teachers from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

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EdTech Common Core Video Student Engagement 40

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 1, 2015

If we’re truly reflective practitioners, we think a lot about what happens in our libraries. But there are richer measures and more clearer lenses through which we can share and through which we can learn answers to such questions as” What does learning look like in the library? What are the real impacts of our libraries?

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Libraries Report Wiki Assessment 40

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Free, expansive digital library unlocks treasure trove of books. Bottom line: This large collection of books and videos on a wide variety of topics is an easy -- and free -- enhancement to any classroom library. Simplify communication, collaboration, and document sharing. Unlimited Books for Kids. Google Classroom. Khan Academy.

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Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 66

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 7, 2016

NSDL – The National Science Digital Library has some outstanding resources that include numerous links to some great STEM programs and organizations. Teachers can explore and use Design Squad Nation activities, animations, video profiles, and episodes in classrooms and after-school programs, in libraries and museums, at events and at home.

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STEM Resources Video Conference 113

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JUNE 1, 2016

That’s where Kiddom comes in–a free standards-based grading platform that comes with a vast library of standards-based content. Kiddom is pre-populated with academic and SEL standards which include the Common Core along with many others, so you can select the ones you want with just a click.

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Khan Academy Differentiated Instruction Common Core iPhone 40

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Free, expansive digital library unlocks treasure trove of books Bottom line: This large collection of books and videos on a wide variety of topics is an easy -- and free -- enhancement to any classroom library. Unlimited Books for Kids. Google Classroom. Khan Academy. Khan Academy Kids.

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Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 40

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Free, expansive digital library unlocks treasure trove of books Bottom line: This large collection of books and videos on a wide variety of topics is an easy -- and free -- enhancement to any classroom library. Unlimited Books for Kids. Google Classroom. Khan Academy. Khan Academy Kids.

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Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2015

‘Close reading’ entered the teacher’s lexicon with this Common Core literacy anchor standard: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. Not always, but occasionally.

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Tools Common Core Android Adobe 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Actively Learn is a freemium online education platform that allows students to read a book (or some other document), make comments, answer questions posed by the teacher, and even collaborate with others. in the library as a research tool . These are filtered by topic, grade, length, reading level, keyword, or standards (i.e.,

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Learning Edmodo Libraries Common Core 316

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

The Flat Panel also features an upgradable built-in Android Module and wireless AVer document camera integration. Judges liked that the product provided immediate feedback on both correct and incorrect answers and its adhered to Common Core and state standards.

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Robotics Chromebook Edmentum Mobility 42

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Please join us for the third annual global conversation about the future of libraries: October 18-19, 2013, [link]. join the Library 2.0 The conference is once again being held entirely online around the clock in multiple languages and time zones. To be kept informed of the latest conference news and updates, please ?join

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Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

use online tools for core classes (Wordle, Animoto, Story Creators). If you’re a Common Core state, keyboarding shows up often in the Standards, but can be summarized in these three ways: Keyboarding is addressed tangentially –students must be able to type pages in a single sitting (see CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.6 for example.

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Classroom Common Core Digital Citizenship Examples 150

TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 25, 2015

Class materials will be stored in the cloud or in digital libraries. Many school districts have adopted the practice of writing their own curriculum in order to align with Common Core. Research-based activities will meet the needs of diverse learners. Schools will make time for eReaders and Web-based news.

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Common Core eBook Assessment Social Media 40

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? You can now find out. Beyond the Bubble History Assessments.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Perfect for English language learners and struggling readers, CommonLit is a free digital library of ready-to-print leveled texts -- news articles, poems, short stories, and historical documents. HangArt: Play Hangman, Draw Pictures, Tell Stories. Tech Skills: Autodesk Design Academy. Price: Free; Platform: Web; Grades: 6–12.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Then imagine on the ceilings of those rooms infrared cameras, documenting the objects that every student touches throughout the day, and microphones, recording every word that each person utters. Picture now the children themselves wearing Fitbit-like devices that track everything from their heart rates to their time between meals.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). Siegler: “ The End of the Library.” Students would be required to pay. That’s gonna be a “no” for me, dawg.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” Via PBS Newshour : “GOP reinstates usage of ‘ illegal alien ’ in Library of Congress ’ records.” The School Library Journal reports that “ New York DOE Green Lights Amazon eBook Deal.” ” “ Why Free School Lunches Might Be Harder To Get Soon.” million total.

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. ” Via Politico : “ Success Academy documents point to ‘possible cheating’ among challenges.” The ALA has released library privacy guidelines for students in K–12 schools. – this time in science.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via The Seattle Times : “A cellphone belonging to the man who claims he shot and wounded another man in self-defense during a demonstration last month at the University of Washington had been wiped clean of data before being seized by police, according to search-warrant documents filed in King County Superior Court.”

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