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Top 10 Reasons to Sign Up for Summer Learning with Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher

And Google Hangouts. A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available.

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Flip Your Back-to-School Night

Catlin Tucker

Students engage in face-to-face conversations, asynchronous online discussions, and 140 character Twitter-style interactions. Virtual Tour of Our Classroom Resources. I send each parent an email with links to my flipped Back-to-School Night and Animoto videos.

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PD for Writing Teachers: STEM Workshops, Rockstar Camps, Twitter and More!

Edsurge

While the focus is on educational technology and lesson design as opposed to just writing instruction, I have always discovered innovative applications in my English classroom of tools and ideas gleaned from CUE Lead Learners. We began examining the details of the Common Core State Standards years before their rollout in school districts.

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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

As the site increased in popularity it caught the eye of Bill Gates and Google with an end result being over 4 million in funding. The Khan Academy site now contains over 3000 videos mapped to the Common Core and associated assessments that allow learners to practice and reinforce skills acquired through the videos.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

Ask a Tech Teacher

We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. Twitter Chats worked best with larger groups.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

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It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. Failed and tried again. Asked questions. They were curious.

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Why Blended Learning Fits Your Class, 3 Issues to Think About, and 5 Easy Ways to Begin

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Blended learning occurs when an education program combines Internet-based media with traditional classroom methods. Digital books are aligned with state standards and Common Core. Options include WordPress, Kidblog, Wix, and Google’s Blogger. Student blogs. any platform; free/fee. Communication Tools.