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which demand that students hone their skills at understanding and analyzing a variety of texts. To do that, teachers must help them delve more deeply into what they read.

The two groups recognized that in order to reflect the standards’ expectations, teachers must begin asking different kinds of questions than most of those suggested in the teacher’s editions of the popular basal readers.

Student Achievement Partners, has already created and posted on its website a guide to crafting text-dependent questions.

Flip your instruction so that students watch and listen to your lectures… for homework, and then use your precious class-time for what previously, often, was done in homework: tackling difficult problems, working in groups, researching, collaborating, crafting and creating.

The advantage of the flipped classroom is that the content, often the theoretical/lecture-based component of the lesson, becomes more easily accessed and controlled by the learner.

One of the major, evidenced-based advantages of the use of video is that learners have control over the media with the ability to review parts that are misunderstood, which need further reinforcement, and/or those parts that are of particular interest

Yet a fundamental contradiction underlies the progress: While we are promoting radical change in creating a coherent national framework for what students should know and the way they learn, we have not yet committed to offering teachers the deep learning they will need to transform the way they work.

oo many plans for supporting the transition to the common core read more like communication plans than serious road maps for preparing educators to teach the standards.

"What made you think you could transform teacher practice and student learning with traditional models of professional development?"

Watch a video explaining what Twitter is.

Add some well known educational technologists from the list below to your list of people you follow. David Warlick Vicki Davis Angela Maiers Rod Lucier Alec Couros Jen Farr Russel Tarr Kevin Jarrett Steve Hargadon Bernie Dodge Will Richardson Bud Hunt

Finally, consider adding some twitter lists. A list a set of tweeps maintained by one twitter user. That user keeps the list pruned so that it's useful to him or her, and it might be useful to you, too. Here are some lists in content areas relevant to some of you in this class. If you add a list to your list of followers, you're adding dozens of other (ideally) well-chosen minds all at once History | Literature | NYT Book Reviews | Biology | Physics | Music |