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9 Ways to Add Tech to your Lessons Without Adding Time to Your Day

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the digital devices–computer or Chromebooks or iPads–won’t work on the Big Day. Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library.

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Kids become teachers: Helping out at a Senior Center

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Know what topics seniors would like to learn such as how to use iPads, how to send an email, how to digitally read using Kindle or iBooks, and more. Discuss with students how this supports Common Core’s “Capacities for the Literate Individual”: Demonstrate independence. read ebooks from an iPad or a phone app.

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33 Resources for Read Across America Day

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Here are seventeen online libraries with a wide variety of free/fee books: Actively Learn –add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared. International Library. Open Library. And finally, try these 5 apps for iPads: Action Words– learn action words with amazing pictures.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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These were the pressing questions of the time – a time 8-months after the release of the first iPad and 6-months before the release of the first Chromebook. Then there was the iPad. Appealing to all ages for all occasions, the iPad topped the market in the following years after its release. Will the cloud continue to reign?

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39 Resources for Read Across America Day

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Here are seventeen online libraries with a wide variety of free/fee books: Actively Learn –add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared. International Library. Open Library. And finally, try these 25 apps for iPads: Action Words– learn action words with amazing pictures.

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Why Game Based Learning Is the Right Choice for Remote Teaching

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SplashLearn is an easy-to-use COPA-compliant, Common Core-aligned math curriculum for grades Kindergarten-5th that uses game-based learning to teach mathematical concepts. Online Reading –when the classroom library isn’t available, use one of the many online libraries or story collections to inspire reading.

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52 Resources for Read Across America Day

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Here are seven online libraries with a wide variety of free/fee books: Bookopolis. International Library. Open Library. And finally, try these 25 apps for iPads: Action Words– learn action words with amazing pictures. And finally, try these 25 apps for iPads: Action Words– learn action words with amazing pictures.

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