Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Access the assignment provided by the teacher. Once that is completed, access other challenges via online apps (usually third party, outside of the eSpark app), new videos, or something else. Here’s what students do: Log into the eSpark app with the username and password picture provided by the teacher. Begin the first quest.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Another challenge for teachers is the need for more professional development and help in connecting maker activities to curriculum and academic standards. The tools and resources required don’t come cheap: 92 percent of educators said information about grants were somewhat or very important.

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Academic Standards Education Common Core Survey 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

In today’s workforce, one employee backed up by teams of experts providing training, tools, just-in-time access to materials and data can perform work that once required dozens of line workers. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Department of Education spearheaded the #GoOpen movement, a collection of efforts to spur educators, publishers and technologists to make OER more available and easily accessible. were part of the Common Core initiative, but several have dropped this school year.) Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The tool offers a free version for teachers with access to its basic features. A paid upgrade to Seesaw Plus gives teachers access to more privacy options and other features. You don't have to sign up to get access to see what's on the site, but registration is necessary for full access and exploration.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

The need for more practical and effective professional learning opportunities for teachers is especially important right now, with new academic standards being introduced and adapted in schools across the country. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has a vision for how that can happen. image via AP ].

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 30, 2015

Among the biggest changes the Common Core Standards require is the shift in the burden of general literacy. And here we are, and the Common Core Standards (no matter what you might think of them) are asking all teachers to teach writing. Writing Is Still How We Communicate. by Terry Heick.

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Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

These tests determine if the student has understood the curriculum as per state standards, because they are pegged to Georgia’s new academic standards, which are guided by the Common Core, a national consensus of what each child should learn in each grade level. What’s in store for the 2020-21 school year.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. For over ten years, districts across the U.S. educational policy: College and Career Readiness. Blended Learning.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Research has shown that a majority of the educators who teach English-language learners (ELLs) are creating their own instructional materials — often with little oversight — that don’t necessarily match the student’s grade level or the rigor required by state academic standards.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

million to serve some 3,000 children next fall, less than 10 percent of those who are eligible, leaving the vast majority of the state’s 4-year-olds without access to state-funded preschool. “If Pre-K also teaches important non-academic skills, like how to hold a pencil, pay attention and get along with peers. The state will spend $6.5

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Common Core. On her website, DeVos states that she is “not a supporter—period” of the nationwide math and English language arts standards, which Mississippi adopted in 2010. That means any push to change the standards would most likely come from state legislators.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

While the Clinton campaign has focused on issues that unite the party—such as expanding access to pre-kindergarten programs, raising teacher pay and increasing school funding— a recent fight over the party’s platform, a document that lays out the party’s policy goals, underscores how difficult ending the party’s internal education wars could be.

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