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Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Writing Re-Launched: Teachi... - 1 views

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    Great shout-out to NWP.
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Common Core State Standards Initiative | Mathematics | Introduction | Standards for Mat... - 0 views

  • Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends
  • the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.
  • They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others.
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  • In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptio
  • Mathematically proficient students at various grade levels are able to identify relevant external mathematical resources, such as digital content located on a website, and use them to pose or solve p
  • roblems. They are able to use technological tools to explore and deepen their understanding of concepts.
  • In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.
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    Plenty of opportunities in these math standards for reflection, publication, revision, and collaboration.
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Common Core State Standards Initiative | English Language Arts Standards | Anchor Stand... - 3 views

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      These three standards hit all four of our tech PD focus areas: reflection, collaboration, publication, and revision.
  • 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
  • 5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
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  • 10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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Chippewa River Writing Project - WHOAAA_Webinar_Oct_2011 - 1 views

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    Excellent resource to help us think about how to structure tech PD.
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Digital Learning Day: Collaborative Romeo and Juliet Blogging Community | NWP Digital Is - 2 views

  • Every day at BCLUW is Digital Learning Day. Technology is not viewed as a separate entity needing a specific time to be etched into the classroom for use, in fact it reminds me a lot of the dichotomy between reading and writing; technology infused curriculum is the norm here, a natural part of pedagogy and student learning. 
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    Digital approach to exploring a classic.
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Danah Boyd - Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Interesting piece on social networking.
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EITT Project - 0 views

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    A description of how one site is using podcasts to help students with reading fluency.
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4,100 Massachusetts Students Prove Small Isn't Always Better - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    writing, curriculum, education, reform
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Writer's Life in Portland, ME - Google Maps - 0 views

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    A collection of interesting places to meet and write during the SMWP SI's "Writer's Life" adventure.
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Special-Focus Networks: Continuity & Site Development - 0 views

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    This is a quick overview of NWP's Special-Focus Networks.
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BigFoto - 1 views

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    Royalty-free images to use in digital compositions.
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