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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. have online libraries included with student resources. have online libraries included with student resources.

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Maker-Enhanced Writing Workshop: Character Development

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Common Core State Standards – ELA. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. The YWP also helps K–12 educators facilitate NaNoWriMo in schools, libraries, and community centers around the world.

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Core Tech for Learning with ELA Common Core #ISTE2014

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One of the #ISTE2014 sessions I attended was "Core technologies for the Common Core" by Kyle Brumbaugh and Elizabeth Calhoon. They had a great introduction to the Common Core and a plethora of helpful tools. Newsela : You can find current events by content area. Open Library : Borrow and read books.

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Unconventional Research Sites to Inspire Students

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They search based on subject matter, video topic, Common Core or state standard, or simply browse a list of videos. They hear original phrasing, emphasis, and often reactions to dramatic events that — without recordings — would be simply words on paper to most of them, devoid of passion, emotion, and motivation.

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7+ Websites to Teach Financial Literacy

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It also includes a teacher’s guide, a series of lesson plans, and the Common Core standards addressed. Students set up market accounts and make decisions about buying and selling based on research and real-life events. Part of this is a large library of online interactive tools including videos and game-like activities.

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Kids become teachers: Helping out at a Senior Center

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Discuss with students how this supports Common Core’s “Capacities for the Literate Individual”: Demonstrate independence. create blogs to share events with each other. Second : create a how-to library of class videos for the senior center, uploaded to their website. Build strong content knowledge. use the internet.

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Guest post: 15 EdTech Resources to Use in Classroom

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The website gives you videos, images, and articles related to the questions and aligned with Common Core standards. International Children’s Digital Library. How are the events from today connected with events from the history? Just read the question and let them think. Then, show them the answer.

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