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Here’s Why Teachers Adopt New Tech — and Why They Don’t

Edsurge

If the technology supports this, it meets the primary requirement. Can the tech support or provide a learning activity that can be classified within Bloom’s taxonomy? Does it meet subject- and grade-level Common Core standards? A teacher’s primary goal is to get students to meet standards-based learning objectives.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

Summit, for example, will contribute more than 16,000 comprehensive Common Core-aligned resources for students in sixth through 12th grades in October, and High Tech High has already contributed over 4,000 resources. Around the country, schools using this approach are documenting student success. And this approach is growing.

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How to Use Oral Presentations to Help English Language Learners Succeed

MindShift

Teaching students to design effective oral presentations has also been found to support thinking development as “the quality of presentation actually improves the quality of thought, and vice versa” (Živkovi?, Additionally, t he Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards specifically focus on oral presentations.

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