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Maker-Enhanced Writing Workshop: Character Development

User Generated Education

This month I started a maker-enhanced writing workshop with a group of gifted 3rd through 6th grade students. Common Core State Standards – ELA. We provide virtual classroom spaces on our site, as well as student workbooks, Common Core-aligned curricula, and free motivational materials ( [link] ).

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Workshop responses: Incorporating students’ learning interests and passions

Dangerously Irrelevant

Here are some data from a workshop I did with 80 educators… What would this look like in your school? The Iowa Core doesn’t really allow for students’ passions to be incorporated into the classroom. Most of their interests are not part of the Common Core. What could / should it look like? Related Posts.

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PD for Writing Teachers: STEM Workshops, Rockstar Camps, Twitter and More!

Edsurge

CUE Rock Star Teacher Camps Summers and school year, mostly in California, one- to two-day workshops, very affordable, free if district-sponsored. I attended my first one, a three-day workshop in Manhattan Beach, in 2014, and now I both present at and attend them in northern and southern California.

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Last Chance for this College-credit Tech-for-writing Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Educators participate in this five-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop to learn about widely-available digital tools that will help their students develop their inner writer. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. MTI 558: Teach Writing With Tech.

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Join me for a Master Class at BLC in July!

Catlin Tucker

I’ll be leading a master class titled “Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology” at Alan November’s BLC Conference in Boston in July. The Common Core gives educators and opportunity to rethink how we teach and how students learn.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

” 2010 was also the year that the Common Core Standards Initiative was enacted in response to numerous indicators of low student academic performance. ” 1:1 + Common Core = $$$$$. All Common Core testing will be done online. Indeed, $2.3 Ironically, the cloud brought us light.

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5 Steps for a Successful STEAM Lab

The CoolCatTeacher

Thank you, Wonder Workshop, Today’s Sponsor. Learn about Wonder Workshop. Last year I judged a robotics competition for Wonder Workshop. Wonder Workshop robots make a fantastic addition to any STEAM Lab. My son loves the Dash and Dot robots from Wonder Workshop. Sign up to start a club.

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