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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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Students today are hyper connected to information, but do they know how to research? Nope.
Beth Dichter's insight:
Do your students know how to research, to evaluate websites? The Common Core states that college and career ready students should be able to (quoted from the standards): * Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. * Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. In this post Caitlin Tucker provides a link to a Google form to use with students to demonstrate "their ability to analyze the credibility of resources." She also includes a "silent screencast" that shows the process of making a copy of the form for you to use.
Jaime Parker's curator insight,
July 10, 2013 2:22 PM
I have a friend who teaches English courses at the college level and this is her biggest complaint. She says that the students simply do not know how to research. They don't know how to use databases or how to evaluate websites which seems so crazy to me. I'm not sure why these skills aren't being taught or integrated into every content area. Perhaps too much time is being spent preparing students for standardized testing.
Mayra.Loves.Books's curator insight,
July 10, 2013 7:07 PM
What to expect when librarians are being cut everywhere or stretched so thin to covel 4 schools in one week?
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"Have you ever wondered why students choose the books that they do? Renaissance Learning explored this question in the fifth-edition What Kids Are Reading report, which lists the top 40 books read by students in grades 1-12 in the 2011-2012 school year. Rankings are based on the Accelerated Reader database, the largest of its kind, which houses reading records for students who read 283 million books."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post links to a page that will provide you access to the full report, the infographic (part of which is above), and a report summary. The full report also includes: * Caldecott and Newbury winners from 1922 to present * A selection of the Common Core State Standards exemplars There have been many shifts in reading over the last 100 years, and one shift is that the complexity of required reading has decreased. To learn more check any of the resources found through this link. If you prefer an oral version from NPR you can listen to (or read) a short piece aired on June 11th, 2013 called "What Kids are Reading, In School and Out" at http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/06/11/190669029/what-kids-are-reading-in-school-and-out.
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Our common core standards checklists are just what you need to help you keep track of the standards taught in your classroom. Use these to make sure you are addressing all that you need to teach throughout the course of the school year.
Beth Dichter's insight:
If you are a teacher in Grades K through 6 this site has a great resource...Common Core Checklists. You will find checklists for Reading, Writing, Language, Speaking & Listening, and Math. The anchor standard is written at the top of the page. Underneath the indicator(s) will be listed in one column and you find columns for: date taught, date retaught, date reviewed, date assessed, date reassessed. All are uploaded as pdf files so you can easily download them for easy access. A screenshot of one page of Grade 3 ELA is in the image above.
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"OpenEd contains the largest catalog of educational videos aligned to Common Core and other standards. Choose a standard group (Math, Language Arts, Next Gen Science) followed by a category. Then pick a standard and you will see resources for it. You can optionally filter by selected grades (K to 12). If you want to search for resources by keyword instead of a standard, click on the "Search By Keyword" tab above. You can also create courses on OpenEd by registering for an account."
Beth Dichter's insight:
OpenEd is a new source of materials that was founded "with the goal of enabling teachers to have access to the best educational resources (videos, games, and exercises) for their students, especially for finding the right resources for Common Core standards." It is easy to search by grade level and standard, quickly drilling down to the one you need. If you are looking for videos to use with students this may become one of your "go to" sites!
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What happens when you take a classic and edit it to meet the new standards? Here is one possibility. To view the entire poem click through to the post and ask yourself what would Clement Clarke Moore think of this revised version?
Happy holidays!