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It is now available for free to Ask a Tech Teacher subscribers: Summary This video discusses using student presentations to enhance speaking and listening skills, aligning with CommonCore standards. Technology Integration: Essential for implementing CommonCore standards without adding extra layers.
The video outlines practical strategies for implementing quick writes in the classroom, provides examples of tools and techniques, and highlights how these exercises can meet CommonCore standards. Variety of Mediums : Students can choose from multiple formatswriting, drawing, audioto communicate their ideas effectively.
I’ve updated Ask a Tech Teacher’s list of ten math tools we posted in 2016 to be shorter and with a new option. I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. How to decide which tool is right for you?
New Milford High School teachers Jessica Groff and Joanna Westbrook created a CommonCore 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.
CommonCore 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. Try these ten tech uses. You can use Google Forms or the Google calendar. iPads to share stories students write.
Educators today are facing two major shifts in education–a move to the CommonCore Standards and increasing pressure to teach students with the technology they’ll be expected to use in their lives beyond high school. Throughout the book, I’ve highlighted tech tools that can be used to make teachers more effective and efficient.
In this three-week course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. It is not an extra layer of work, rather a habit of mind for both teacher and student.
Let’s evaluate the CommonCore Reading Standards and their good fit with games: What CommonCore Expects. I’m asking for exemplars of how Minecraft gamers used CommonCore writing standards. Use appropriate tools strategically. Allow me to change that. What Game Delivers.
Experiment with a wide variety of available digital writing tools to help your students develop their inner writer. Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format. Teach Writing with Tech. Starts February 1, 2021. INTASC 1, 7.
As they work, students “…construct viable arguments and critique reasoning of others…” More specifically (CommonCore Appendix C): introduce claim. Use note-taking tools to collect and share information. Use tools similar to those used on Project Pitch Day. Tech tools learned may include videocasting and audiocasting.
It includes K-5 tech curriculum (including problem solving, productivity software, critical thinking, share/publish, mouse skills, image editing, Google Earth, Photoshop, web tools, and more), keyboarding and digital citizenship curricula, classroom posters, pedagogic articles on tech ed topics, tips and tricks, and more.
It includes K-5 tech curriculum (including problem solving, productivity software, critical thinking, share/publish, mouse skills, image editing, Google Earth, Photoshop, web tools, and more), keyboarding and digital citizenship curricula, classroom posters, pedagogic articles on tech ed topics, tips and tricks, and more.
Discussion can be a powerful tool for learning yet engaging all students in equitable discussions can be challenging. Interested in technology tips to help you teach the CommonCore? My book Creatively Teach the CommonCore Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Learning'
Even the ones who love it put in lots of extra time to do one or more of the following: learn tech tools and then teach their students. learn tech tools only to discover it’s not what they need. learn a tech tool they love only to have it either disappear or switch to a fee-based program. Even if it’s Minecraft.
Now, it’s a tool for learning. 6.6 ) By 3rd grade, CommonCore discusses the use of keyboarding to produce work, i.e., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 If you’re in a tech-infused school, it’s your obligation to teach them the right way to type so they can organically develop the tools to support learning.
Experiment with a wide variety of available digital writing tools to help your students develop their inner writer. Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format. Teach Writing with Tech. Starts September 6, 2021. INTASC 1, 7.
There are also learning outcomes aligned to CommonCore, ISTE, and Next Generation Science Standards. With these tools, students can dive deeper into concepts while also collaborating with their peers. There is so much potential for these tools to engage and empower learners.
Experiment with a wide variety of available digital writing tools to help your students develop their inner writer. Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format. Click to view slideshow. Teach Writing with Tech. INTASC 1, 7.
Quick Take: Overview of educational assessment tools focusing on Summative assessment and Formative assessment. Standardized tests (CommonCore Testing, AP, SAT, High-school Exit Exam, College Entrance Exams, GED). To be a well-rounded educator it is important to use both these tools in combination effectively.
In this three-week course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Assessment is project-based so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-taker.
All are online, hands-on, with an authentic use of tools you’ll want for your class. In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. The Tech-infused Teacher.
30 K-5 CommonCore-aligned lessons. Holiday projects –16 lesson plans themed to holidays and keep students in the spirit while learning new tools. There are lots of bundles of lesson plans available–by theme, by software, by topic, by standard. Let me review a few: STEM Lesson Plans. Coding Lesson Plans.
The CommonCore Standards for Mathematical Practice If you’re a CommonCore school, the Standards for Mathematical Practice are well-aligned with the needs of a Growth Mindset. If you’re into gamifying learning, coding may be perfect for you.
All of them, I’ve found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, offering inclusive solutions to the issue of tech tools–taking into account the perspectives of stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to ensure learning is organic and granular.
All of them, I’ve found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, offering inclusive solutions to the issue of tech tools–taking into account the perspectives of stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to ensure learning is organic and granular.
Project Pals is a powerful new tool that lets students organize projects. These starter projects are aligned with CommonCore standards and are already built for you. This digital citizenship project is aligned with several CommonCore State Standards. Standards Aligned Project Search.
Who am I to deprive him access to an array of engaging tools that his generation is growing up with? Even though CommonCore is not a curriculum, many schools and districts have become so engrossed with alignment and preparing for the new aligned tests that real learning has fallen by the wayside.
What they have defined as ‘writing’ is actually writing conventions, tools, and activities rather than its purpose, goals, and definition. These include (rephrased from CommonCore Writing Standards): dig deeply into subjects of interest to achieve better understanding and to build knowledge. More on Writing.
tools, and develop their own Personal Learning Networks (PLN’s). Throughout the year they met to develop extensive binders to compile resources related to text complexity as outlined by the CommonCore Standards. English teachers Jessica Groff and Nanna Westbook used their PGP time to collaborate.
For the stop motion animations, both English Language Arts CommonCore and ISTE Standards were addressed. English Language Arts CommonCore Standards. Plus, students had fun, were fully engaged, and developed a greater tolerance for long term projects. Standards Addressed. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3 Students: 1.6.b.
Let me review a few: STEM Lesson Plans Coding Lesson Plans By Grade Level 30 K-5 CommonCore-aligned lessons 110 lesson plans –integrate tech into different grades, subjects, by difficulty level, and call out higher-order thinking skills. singles –for as low as $.99
The K-12 Technology Curriculum is CommonCore and ISTE aligned, and outlines what should be taught when so students have the necessary scaffolding to use tech for grade level state standards and school curriculum. grade levels include keyboarding, digital citizenship, problem solving, digital tools for the classroom, and coding.
CommonCore Standards recognize the importance of this skill by addressing it in over 29 Standards, at every grade level from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade. Whenever I have a chance, I ask students to make a choice between two–or more–digital tools that can be used to solve a problem or prepare a project.
If this is how the makerspace is set up in your school, then your kids may not have access to the resources, materials, and tools when they need them, especially for STEM or STEAM. This is why we decided to create a planning tool for makerspaces in the classroom for you using the Design Thinking Process and Universal Design for Learning®.
All of them, I’ve found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, offering inclusive solutions to the issue of tech tools–taking into account the perspectives of stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to ensure learning is organic and granular.
Let me review a few: STEM Lesson Plans Coding Lesson Plans By Grade Level 30 K-5 CommonCore-aligned lessons 110 lesson plans –integrate tech into different grades, subjects, by difficulty level, and call out higher-order thinking skills. singles –for as low as $.99
Experiment with a wide variety of available digital writing tools to help your students develop their inner writer. Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format. Email me at askatechteacher@gmail.com. Teach Writing with Tech.
Learn granular approaches to infusing differentiation into all of your lesson plans, whether you’re a CommonCore school or not, with this hands-on, interactive class. Accounts for online tools like a blog, Twitter, various web-based tools. Know what to do, but have questions. Want creative approaches to using tech.
This often produces a disastrous effect as the pedagogy does not support the use of the technology tool in arriving to or assessing learning outcomes. The missing link is guidance on how these tools can be used effectively and appropriately to allow students to create artifacts of learning to demonstrate conceptual mastery.
The ability to send a combination of text, photos, and audio messages using Voxer makes it a versatile tool. In an effort to capitalize on my students’ love affairs with their devices, I’ve tried to think outside the box in terms of the CommonCore Speaking and Listening Standards.
All are online, hands-on, with an authentic use of tools you’ll want for your classroom. In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding.
Let me review a few: bundles of 5 lesson plans –Themed; great when you want to cover a software program, a tool, a grade, or a standard. 30 K-5 CommonCore-aligned lessons –5 per grade level. Holiday projects –16 lesson plans themed to holidays and keep students in the spirit while learning new tools.
‘Close reading’ entered the teacher’s lexicon with this CommonCore literacy anchor standard: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. Reading A-Z. Note patterns.
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, CommonCore, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. Who Needs This.
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