Two schools TMS has worked with were profiled by the Teaching Channel in this video that unpacks the Common Core Standards for elementary schools. Funny that they mention "technology" being integrated throughout the standards, but their example is of teachers watching videos of each other. I happen to know that both schools are doing much more sophisticated work that blends digital media into students' ELA and Math units, but it's not yet on the radar of CCSS evaluators (at least at the time this video was made).
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Project Tomorrow will be issuing the full results of its Speak Up survey of students and parents in the next few weeks, but the organization released “Ten Things Everyone Should Know about K-12 Students’ Views on Digital Learning” earlier this month, in conjunction with Digital Learning Day. The findings come from Project Tomorrow’s survey of more than 364,000 students last fall.
New York City Looking To Bring Networking, Technology and Social Media Into The Classroom.
Interview with Lisa Nielsen newly appointed Director of Digital Literacy and Citizenship at the New York City Department of Education
NYC DOE sees the light!! - They have created position of Director of Digital Literacy and Citizenship - primary role to help teachers understand possibilities of social media and how they might use various tools - Facebook, Twitter, wikis - effectively as part of their professional practice.