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"My challenge to you, the unions, Mike Klonsky, Diane Ravitch, and all the others who take issue with me when I say that the unions must be clearer about what needs to change is this: If we really want to change the direction of reform then we have to articulate a clear strategy on how it can be achieved. "

"riting books with or for young children supports literacy skills and creative thinking. Come to this session ready to learn new ways of making books and experience software programs and apps that educators, parents and children can use to produce e-books for viewing electronically. Attendees will learn about eBooks as well as several iOS apps that can be used to create custom eBooks that support and enhance the reading and writing process and content area knowledge. Be ready to create, design and publish your own e-publication and share it with others!"

blog post from: Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs

"My latest multi-touch iBook, Progress and Poverty in Industrial America, is available for your iPad - free / iTunes. It's a great resource for use in the classroom, and serves as a model for teacher or student curation of historic content into interactive digital DBQ's. "

This cracked me up!

"I was amused by the disparity between the cute animation and the ominous narration of the mandated health warning. I thought this would make a good exercise to illustrate techniques in "close reading" and demonstrate the approach advocated by William Kist's in New Literacies and the Common Core Educational Leadership ASCD March 2013."

"Haiku Deck is a great iPad app for building academic vocabulary - and its free. It provides a student-friendly tool for teaching common core vocabulary standards with motivation and creativity. Good defining skills are rooted in collaborative negotiation of meaning rather than memorizing glossaries and testing via two-column matching questions. "

ican statements for ELA common core state standards

"When looking for apps for students on the autism spectrum (ASD), it is important to look at all educational apps and not just those that are tagged as autism apps. They have many of the same learning needs that other students have. This list was developed to provide apps based on common learning characteristics and traits that are typical for students with ASD. It is important to remember that all students learn differently and selecting apps should be based on the unique learning needs of the student. This list is only a sampling of apps available for each skill area. This is not, nor is it meant to be a definitive list. This list is intended to give you a starting place and a rationale for picking certain apps."

Great blog post of apps categorized by skills from Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs: 

" EXPLORE RESOURCES FOR REINVENTING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING"

"There are lots of changes that are occurring in education that will have an impact on students currently enrolled in the Hamilton City School District, around the State, and across the Nation. The information on this site is designed to provide you with more information about what students will be expected to know and do at each grade level in this era of increasing standards. The District is committed to working with parents to provide a world class education that will enable all students to be college and career ready upon graduation from Hamilton High School."

"Below are links to various SLA UbDs."

"Welcome to the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities' Assistive Technology wiki. Here you will find links, vendors, stories, and virtually anything else that relates to Assistive Technology. EXPLORE, LEARN, ENJOY"

"Welcome to the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities's Assistive Technology wiki.                                                                                                                                                                                                                Here you will find links, vendors, stories, and virtually anything else that relates to Assistive Technology. EXPLORE, LEARN, ENJOY"

"Demonstrating tools and techniques applicable to a collaborative iPad and mobile classroom, this session will prepare educational leaders to integrate mobile-technology in a way that transforms the learning experience."

iRead will give you a chance to create meaningful, curriculum-centered audio projects with your students. Teachers are using digital audio tools (iPods, mics, Garageband, iTunes, Keynote, etc. and various accessories) to improve reading processes. Teachers meet on a monthly basis to exchange ideas and strategies. We started in 2006-07 by collecting data about fluency rates - this proved to be very promising.