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How to Prepare Students for PARCC/SBACC Tests

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I polled my PLN to find specific tech areas students needed help with in preparing for the Assessments. Pay attention to these and your students will be much more prepared for this Spring’s Common Core assessments: Keyboarding. Common Core requires this. It boils down to five tech areas.

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Skyward, Certica launch formative assessment solution

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Partnership aims to help educators access more than 80,000 item bank resources for assessment. At the center of this platform is Certica’s Formative Assessment Item Bank (FAIB), which features over 80,000 items, including more than 50,000 Common Core-aligned Math and English Language Arts selections.

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Edulastic launches district tool for administrators

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Resource offers district, school administrators insight into student progress on Common Core. Edulastic, creator of formative assessment tools for teachers, has launched Edulastic District Enterprise, a premium version of the software platform designed specifically for district and school administrators.

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Preparing Students with Technology Skills

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The tech and core standards of organizations such as ISTE, CSTA, and Common Core State Initiative stipulate that students need foundational digital literacy skills to demonstrate writing, reading, and mathematical achievement. Things to consider.

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6 EdTech Resources and Strategies to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Students

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Tool: iReady (Adaptive Math/ELA Assessment & Instruction). Used primarily in Elementary schools, with increasing use in Middle Schools, iReady is an adaptive learning software that provides online assessments, instruction and lesson resources for educators. Educator Strategies: . Educator Strategy. “To

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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CATCHON ( WWW.GETCATCHON.COM ) CatchOn is an administrative tool that provides a real-time digital inventory for district technology leaders on all apps, software, and website activity. They also liked its teacher dashboard and software interfaces. Gizmos help prepare students for rigorous new standards and online assessments.

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6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers

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Think how often keyboarding is part of student work–entering website addresses, adding comments to blogs, typing docs into GAFE, and taking online assessments. An important part of succeeding in core classes is understanding the language. Common Core has three levels of vocabulary: basic. Vocabulary.