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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

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Educators use a variety of resources to meet the needs and interests of individual students, including videos, images, games, non-fiction text and varying types of assessments. Educational Technology Support! To Meet Students’ Needs! Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

As a member of Alan’s Team all year, it is a lot of fun to meet so many people from around the world at his summer conference in Boston. Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards. “We Content is mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common core.

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What Schools Reopen, It Shouldn’t Be Business as Usual

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For example, instead of covering all of the Common Core reading standards for my fourth-grade class, we decided to focus on one standard: identifying key ideas and details in literature and informational text. Some students who may struggle to complete and submit online assignments are regulars during our virtual class meetings.

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How to Run a Parent Class

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help them understand how technology supports the school’s mission and overarching curricula (such as Common Core or Everyday Math). how to decode domain-specific language associated with technology, i.e., cloud . Next, but still during the first meeting, create avatars to be used for their class profile.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

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As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Often the tools available either meet some of the teachers’ needs or are prohibitively expensive.

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

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When assessing return, teachers look for the following: Will It Help Meet Learning Objectives? A teacher’s primary goal is to get students to meet standards-based learning objectives. If the technology supports this, it meets the primary requirement. Does it meet subject- and grade-level Common Core standards?

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