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10 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology

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Common Core tells us: New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. Watch what a difference they make: Online sign-ups for conferences, parent helpers, project presentation dates.

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Twitter as a Tool For Academic Discourse

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New Milford High School teachers Jessica Groff and Joanna Westbrook created a Common Core aligned English Language Arts (ELA) task that incorporated Twitter into their unit on Julius Caesar and built on content authentic to the Shakespeare''s history play – i.e. social media re-purposed with and for academic discourse.

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Subscriber Special: More MLK

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Designed for grades 4-7, it’s aligned with Common Core and ISTE Standards. . Common Core and ISTE alignment. Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). Great project that gets students thinking about the impact of words on history. Essential Question. materials required.

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Subscriber Special: 2 Free Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans

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Designed for grades 4-7, it’s aligned with Common Core and ISTE Standards. . Common Core and ISTE alignment. Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). Great project that gets students thinking about the impact of words on history. Essential Question. materials required.

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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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Let’s evaluate the Common Core Reading Standards and their good fit with games: What Common Core Expects. I’m asking for exemplars of how Minecraft gamers used Common Core writing standards. Allow me to change that. What Game Delivers. In most games, players can’t progress without this.

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

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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. encourage students to tape class presentations to replay later and/or study from. Even if it’s Minecraft.

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Hour of Code? Here’s why to participate

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It feels like: When it should feel like: Coding is a great tie-in to Common Core Math Standards. Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). Coding is that mystical geeky subject that confounds students and teachers alike. Wonder Workshop’s Amazing Dash. CSforGood #HourOfCode.

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