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Free Technology for Teachers: Five Visual Dictionaries and Thesauri for Students - 0 views

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Kenneth Griswold on 15 Oct 13

Via Free Technology for Teachers and Richard Byrne: We know that using nonlinguistic representations for new vocabulary supports student learning. In this post, edtech Blogger Richard Byrne provides quick reviews of five free online dictionaries and thesauri that will help teachers and students find images to connect to words and their definitions.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Via Free Technology for Teachers and Richard Byrne: We know that using nonlinguistic representations for new vocabulary supports student learning. In this post, edtech Blogger Richard Byrne provides quick reviews of five free online dictionaries and thesauri that will help teachers and students find images to connect to words and their definitions.</div>

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Digital Trends Shifting the Role of Teachers - 0 views

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shared by Dorie Kisner on 31 May 13 - No Cached

Dorie Kisner on 31 May 13

Article about teachers and their role in the new age of digital technology

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Article about teachers and their role in the new age of digital technology</div>

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Teaching Geography- Annenberg Learner - 0 views

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shared by Kenneth Griswold on 14 Jun 13 - No Cached

Kenneth Griswold on 14 Jun 13

An eight-part professional development workshop on Teaching Geography for teachers from Annenberg Learner. This is a self-guided interactive workshop perfect for new teachers of geography. There are model lessons here complete with resources, video narratives, and more. A wealth of FREE resources.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">An eight-part professional development workshop on Teaching Geography for teachers from Annenberg Learner. This is a self-guided interactive workshop perfect for new teachers of geography. There are model lessons here complete with resources, video narratives, and more. A wealth of FREE resources.</div>

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Apple Award Winner Teaches With 'Avalanche' - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Kenneth Griswold on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached

Remember “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek,” the multimedia project called “the future of Web storytelling,” which we chose as our Reading Club selection in January?Well, given that our mission is “teaching and learning with The New York Times,” when we came across this video of Russell Loucks, a Language Arts teacher at Mountain Ridge Middle School in Highlands Ranch, Colo., using it to teach his students to tell their own multimedia stories, we had to post it.
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Kenneth Griswold on 06 Mar 13

This video and article who how an award winning teacher uses an amazing example of digital storytelling from the New York Times to teach about the "future of storytelling" to his middle school students and to inspire their own multimedia digital stories. Check it out!

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This video and article who how an award winning teacher uses an amazing example of digital storytelling from the New York Times to teach about the "future of storytelling" to his middle school students and to inspire their own multimedia digital stories. Check it out!</div>

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Newsela- free inormational texts at multiple Lexile levels - 1 views

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shared by Kenneth Griswold on 22 Aug 13 - No Cached

Kenneth Griswold on 22 Aug 13

This brand new FREE service provides excellent news-style current event articles on a variety of topics that are written at multiple levels of text complexity. You can adjust the Lexile level of the text with a few clicks! Teachers can create student accounts and assign texts. Each text has a built in quiz linked to CCSS standards. This tool should be very valuable for any teacher trying to meet CCSS standards for informational texts while addressing differentiated reading needs among her students. Take a look and let me know what you think. Here's looking at you TPSD 6-12 teachers!

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This brand new FREE service provides excellent news-style current event articles on a variety of topics that are written at multiple levels of text complexity. You can adjust the Lexile level of the text with a few clicks! Teachers can create student accounts and assign texts. Each text has a built in quiz linked to CCSS standards. This tool should be very valuable for any teacher trying to meet CCSS standards for informational texts while addressing differentiated reading needs among her students. Take a look and let me know what you think. Here's looking at you TPSD 6-12 teachers!</div>

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1,100 K-8 CCSS Reading Passages & Question Sets | ReadWorks.org - 1 views

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shared by Kenneth Griswold on 18 Sep 13 - No Cached

sample of the 200 Kindergarten & 1st Grade original non-fiction and literary passages and question sets
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Kenneth Griswold on 18 Sep 13

Readworks.org is a reputable source of excellent lesson plans and reading passages focused on teaching reading comprehension. This fall, they are developing over 1000 new CCSS aligned and Lexile-leveled non-fiction and literary passages and question sets. This free resource will be an excellent supplement for teachers.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Readworks.org is a reputable source of excellent lesson plans and reading passages focused on teaching reading comprehension. This fall, they are developing over 1000 new CCSS aligned and Lexile-leveled non-fiction and literary passages and question sets. This free resource will be an excellent supplement for teachers.</div>

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Literacy units for CCSS: free - 1 views

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shared by Kenneth Griswold on 30 Jun 13 - No Cached

Kenneth Griswold on 30 Jun 13

Excellent free units made available from Odell Education. Units on Close Reading and making evidence based claims for grade 6-12 are available here. All materials are included including the texts. Each unit is designed to be 3 weeks long. The materials and models here are very well aligned to Common Core standards and could serve as excellent models for teachers adapting to teaching the new standards.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Excellent free units made available from Odell Education. Units on Close Reading and making evidence based claims for grade 6-12 are available here. All materials are included including the texts. Each unit is designed to be 3 weeks long. The materials and models here are very well aligned to Common Core standards and could serve as excellent models for teachers adapting to teaching the new standards. </div>

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27 Ways To Be A 21st Century Teacher | Edudemic - 0 views

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shared by Kenneth Griswold on 11 Apr 13 - No Cached

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  A nice article and an even nicer chart/poster that help me think about "21st Century" teaching and learning. Interestingly, very few of the "27 ways" are new, and even fewer require digital technology to make happen. Check it out. Do you agree?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A nice article and an even nicer chart/poster that help me think about "21st Century" teaching and learning. Interestingly, very few of the "27 ways" are new, and even fewer require digital technology to make happen. Check it out. Do you agree? </div>
  
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How To Create a Sub Plan, Sub Binder and Emergency Sub Plans - Teach Junkie - 1 views

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shared by Kenneth Griswold on 29 Jul 13 - No Cached

Kenneth Griswold on 29 Jul 13

An excellent collection of resources and ideas on this topic, updated for the digital age.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">An excellent collection of resources and ideas on this topic, updated for the digital age. </div>

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For Teachers, Wired Classrooms Pose New Management Concerns - 2 views

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shared by Dorie Kisner on 15 Oct 13 - No Cached

Dorie Kisner on 15 Oct 13

Awesome article about 1-to-1 and management

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Awesome article about 1-to-1 and management</div>

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Jennifer Strunk on 16 Nov 13

Great article with good insight from those in 1:1 schools/districts. There are many approaches I like and agree with here, from setting clear expectations to essentially partnering with tech-savvy students vs. viewing them as adversaries.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Great article with good insight from those in 1:1 schools/districts. There are many approaches I like and agree with here, from setting clear expectations to essentially partnering with tech-savvy students vs. viewing them as adversaries.</div>

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