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"Five Ways Teachers Can Use Technology to Help Students Posted: 05/07/2013 8:34 am Follow éducation , Classroom Technology , Open Source , Public Schools , Teacher Technology , Technology In The Classroom , Technology News SHARE THIS STORY 57 273 34 Submit this story By Darrell M. West and Joshua Bleiberg Thomas Edison once said, "Books will soon be obsolete in the public schools... our school system will be completely changed inside of ten years." Amazingly enough, however, one of our nation's most important inventors was proven quite wrong. The American education system has a remarkable resistance to innovation and the classroom experience has changed very little in the 100 years since Edison's prediction. Advances in information technology have revolutionized how people communicate and learn in nearly every aspect of modern life except for education. The education system operates under the antiquated needs of an agrarian and industrial America. The short school day and the break in the summer were meant to allow children to work on family farms. Schools have an enduring industrial mentality placing students in arbitrary groups based on their age regardless of their competencies. Technology has failed to transform our schools because the education governance system insulates them from the disruptions that technology creates in other organizations. The government regulates schools perhaps more than any other organization. Rules govern where students study, how they will learn, and who will teach them. Education regulation governs the relationships of actors in the system and stymies the impact of innovative technologies. Furthermore the diffuse system of governance creates numerous veto points to limit innovation. To overcome these obstacles, we must persuade teachers that technology will empower them and help their students learn. We argue that there are five strategies for successful teacher adoption of education technology and that these principles will he

Public draft of upcoming science standards. I haven't had a chance to look through these yet, but I am looking forward to see how these compare with the Common Core Standards.

With the ongoing transition to new standards and assessments in the United States, this scoop.it is intended to curate all materials relevant to implementation of the standards and preparation for next generation assessments.

This is the blog of a second grade teacher who provides insight on various common core standards and shares many resources related to the common core. She provides 2nd grade writing rubrics related to the common core standards.

This website is an amazing resource for students and teachers. The Study Island website has aligned with state standards and created tests, activities, and games that promote student mastery of each standard. Students are able to use their Study Island account at school or at home and teachers can monitor their progress with the reports that are provided from the program. I think this site is an excellent resource for teachers to utilize in order to ensure that students are mastering the necessary standards. It can be very useful for differentiating instruction and using with small groups, or as a computer center station in the classroom.

Free math teaching resources, math games, center activities and math journal tasks for K-5 aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Great Resource

Free math teaching resources, math games, center activities and math journal tasks for K-5 aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Great Resource

Website that you can search lessons by common core standards- complete with powerpoint slides, videos and objectives!

Collaborative assessment for teachers, uses common core or other state standards, able to track students and show progress

TenMarks is an excellent resource to use for Math. This website is aligned with the Common Core Standards and provides students with excellent practice and understanding of each standard. The classroom teacher can sign her class up on the site and provide each student with a username and password. From there she can assign different problems for the class to solve based on the skills they are learning or have already learned. Each question has a video lesson and hints to support the students if they are struggling. TenMarks also automatically provides the students with an intervention or a re-teaching video if they continue to struggle with a concept. It also provides the teacher with reports on the progress of each student. This is something that my fifth grade colleagues and I started this year and it has been great!

Lots of ELA and Math video lessons with related standards

This is a fantastic site that provides common core math curriculum materials as well as lesson plans that implement the common core standards. Great Resource!

a super site that illustrates the standards for mathematical practice

Link to an online teaching and learning site that adheres to your state's common core standards.

This website is packed with math and science activities and includes alignment to state and national standards.

Posting folders with every single topic that is done throughout the year on the back wall. 

The NCTM website is one everyone is familiar with; there are a lot of resources here that are great for explaining concepts. This is an interactive activity working with vectors to help students understand basic facts about the difference between magnitude and direction.

This is a great math site. It includes sections for activities, lessons, standards, and web links. The activities and lessons are grouped into grade levels to facilitate your search.

Great resources

Great resources

Reading A-Z.com is a teacher resource website that offers printable level books, lessons, as well as assessments. All information correlates to state and Common Core standards.

I had never heard of these guys until Mark brought them up in class. I had to check it out. Now I'm trying to see how we can integrate their songs at our school. I have even passed it on to my principal. It's right up his alley!