Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

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. They worked together as a Personal Learning Network.

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Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network Twitter Gamification 150

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Merriam-Webster Dictionary ( iOS and Android ) Merriam-Webster’s app is a vital resource for English language reference, education, and vocabulary building. Key features like voice search, Word of the Day, integrated thesaurus, example sentences, and audio pronunciations elevate the learning experience.

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Android Chegg Study Common Core 59

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Related: Personalized learning: How kids are getting into college by mastering their skills. Related: Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies? The mastery-based system “is a great way to say, ‘I know you’re struggling in math, but it’s not all of geometry you’re struggling with.’ ”.

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Common Core Advocacy System Personalized Learning 95

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

The treasure of the competency-based system is that students are allowed to continue their work when school gets out in summer during our “competency-recovery “ time and sometimes into the next year during their Learning Lab time or while sitting in the back of the class they need to finish.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

McComb School District down in McComb, Mississippi doesn’t just believe in the power of technology when it comes to personalized learning. All of our classrooms are learning labs now. They are not following Common Core textbooks—they're working together in PLC teams. I say, "We have levels.". Kiana, Summit student.

Competency Based Learning 83

Competency Based Learning Policies Common Core Elementary 83

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The charter network’s New York students had scored below expectations on the new, more challenging Common Core tests. Kids who have great persistence in their lives, it’s because they have personal passion.”. Achievement First was responding to what co-founder Dacia Toll describes as a wake-up call in 2013.

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Robotics Learning Report Common Core 89

TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 13, 2015

Among the challenges of assessment, this concept–as it applies to formal academic classrooms designed to promote mastery of Common Core or similar standards–is near the top. In Evolving How We Plan , I pointed contentiously at the “unit” and “lesson” as impediments to personalized learning.

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Assessment Data Learning Common Core 40

Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

These standards could be content standards such as Common Core or NGSS. In my first iteration of the portfolio, my students presented artifacts that demonstrated 21st Century Outcomes as outlined by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning. But, it also houses information on skill sets and drivers for learning.

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ePortfolio Google How To Secondary 77

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Creating a dichotomy between engagement and information promotes the misconception that reading is done either for entertainment or for learning. The Common Core State Standards perpetuates this idea by separating informative and narrative reading.

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Common Core eBook Tablets Facebook 28

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

While discussing their respective backgrounds, the two teachers wondered if there was a way to give students a deeper understanding of genocide than what was covered by the state’s instructional “frameworks” — Massachusetts’ version of the Common Core standards. Historical documents and literary fiction make up the curriculum.

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Study Training Report Industry 83

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

It can also help educators determine what digital resources may work best to help support learning. For this reason I will refer to it as finding the technology in the standard. Content is mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common core. It is all possible with CK-12.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. In short, differentiation is the process of personalizing universal learning goals for groups of students. Individualized Learning. Informal Learning.

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

It can also help educators determine what digital resources may work best to help support learning. For this reason I will refer to it as finding the technology in the standard. Content is mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common core. Let’s take a look! It is all possible with CK-12.

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

Many administrators at public schools say they are using strategies to “personalize” learning, giving students the chance to tackle coursework at their own pace or have a greater say in what they study. And that, these advocates say, is the real goal for personalized learning. — Tara García Mathewson.

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Competency Based Learning Common Core Personalized Learning Study 81

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

Yet where she sees “promise” are movements to improve education at the classroom level, particularly through instructional approaches now often referred to as “personalized learning.”. “We Department of Education, Common Core is dead. Department of Education, Common Core is dead. at the U.S.

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Common Core Personalized Learning Learning Policies 122

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The more common freemium model limits the amount of features or support a teacher receives for the free product, and the paid version is essentially a more robust version of the same product. The sales strategy is generally referred as “top-down,” meaning a district makes a purchase for all the schools under its administration.

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EdTech Company Common Core Data 85

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Rosen Publishing (social justice-oriented materials), Gareth Stevens (Hi-Lo titles, informational texts and fiction titles ), Cavendish Square (circulating reference and nonfiction titles) and Enslow Publishing (biography, contemporary issues, history, health, etc.) serve grades Pre-K -12 with high interest, curriculum-correlated materials.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 69

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

Christopher will discuss how Mission US prompts young players to think critically, make choices, and reference primary sources. Wednesday, April 23rd at 7pm ISTE - ISTE Standards and the Common Core Integration in Action , Are you daunted by the prospect of implementing the Common Core State Standards?

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 51

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Purnendu Chatterjee MAD Day from Syria Makes A Difference - Samah AlJundi Maintaining Bridges to Swaziland Via Social Media - Susan Jacques Pierson, Ph.D.

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Conference Education Digital Badges Libraries 70

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Perhaps, instead of tying “ personalized learning ” to special ed policies of the 1970s, you could read some Rousseau?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

ESSA gives more autonomy and flexibility to states than they had under NCLB through competency-based assessments, which could drive the development of personalized learning technologies. “UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet,” The Sacramento Bee reported in April.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

The “silicon” in “Silicon Valley” refers to the silicon-based integrated circuits that were first developed and manufactured in the area. The base curriculum is aligned with the Common Core, and each course includes meaningful projects, playlists of content and assessments, all of which can be customized.

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The email, he said, detailed a “Priority 1 Alert” that had been issued by Pearson and the New Jersey Department of Education, regarding a student who had tweeted about a test question on the PARCC — a standardized test based on the Common Core State Standards. School choice, for DeVos, is the Uber for education.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145