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What Happens When Technology Fails? 3 Work-Arounds

Ask a Tech Teacher

Technology enables it to differentiate authentically for the diverse group of learners that walk across your threshold. Until the day of, the technology that is its foundation fails. All that matters is an effort to use technology to add rigor and excitement to a tired lesson plan fails, leaving the teacher more technophobic than ever.

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Use of Blogging to Address the Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

First year New Milford High School teacher Mrs. Westbrook has been tackling the Common Core in an engaging and innovative fashion. One major instructional shift required by the Common Core Curriculum Standards is the increased emphasis on the use of informational texts.

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Stop Motion Animations: A Fun and Engaging Language Arts-Educational Technology Integration

User Generated Education

For the stop motion animations, both English Language Arts Common Core and ISTE Standards were addressed. This blog post provides some background information as well as presents a few student examples. English Language Arts Common Core Standards. ISTE (Technology) Standards for Students. Standards Addressed.

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Subscriber Special: K-5 New Teacher Survival Kit

Ask a Tech Teacher

You may be the Technology Specialist, the Coordinator for Instructional Technology, IT Coordinator, Technology Facilitator, Curriculum Specialist, Technology Director or the technology teacher for your school—tasked with finding the right computer project for each classroom unit. How do you reach your goal?

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Shifts and Issues Associated With The Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

I attended another session on the Common Core State Standards today at the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference entitled Educator Readiness for the Common Core: ASCD Findings from Select States. Image credit: [link] Key ELA Shifts Building knowledge through content rich nonfiction and informational texts.

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Free MLK Lesson Plans

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Ask a Tech Teacher’s 19-page two-lesson plan bundle to teach about Martin Luther King (click for more information) is 66% off January 12, 2024 through Jan. ” Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Get Common Core Ready: Achieve Dynamic Student-led Discussions

Catlin Tucker

During first semester, I provide groups with questions, quotes and information to fuel these small group discussions. Interested in technology tips to help you teach the Common Core? My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin.