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Kenneth Griswold

Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers | PARCC - 0 views

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    Mississippi is a member state in the Partnershiop for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), the organization responsible for developing the next generation assessments which will be used to assess Common Core Standards in English and math.   The site provides a wealth of resources for assessment and teaching for common core standards.
Kenneth Griswold

Assessment Blueprints and Test Specifications | PARCC - 0 views

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    PARCC releases the Assessment Blueprints and Test Specifications for ELA and Math.  This collection of documents will help any teacher understand how the common core standards will be assessed.  There is a lot here, but there are helpful guides, an FAQ, and narrated powerpoints to help you navigate.  See especially the Evidence Statements in math and ELA that clarify the student behaviors that will be measured to assess mastery of each standard.  These are very helpful.
Kenneth Griswold

PARCC Task Prototypes and New Sample Items for ELA/literacy | PARCC - 1 views

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    In a press release on Monday, August 19, PARCC, the assessment consortium developing the CCSS tests, announced the release of additional paper-based sample test items in ELA and math. This is great news for us as we work to implement CCSS and PARCC-like assessment in our classrooms. On the PARCC website, you will see a list of links for each grade level and subject in the left sidebar. Visiting each link brings you to a page with a table describing the kinds of tasks that will appear on the PARCC assessment. Links to the sample items are within this table. Let us know if you have any questions!
Kenneth Griswold

Documenting Learning in Mathematics (or any other subject) using Padlet - 1 views

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    A math teacher demonstrates how he and his students use the web tool, pad let, to collaborate on and assess math tasks in a lesson. Padlet is a free tool that allows users to upload notes , images, and more to a common online bulletin board or workspace.
Kenneth Griswold

Illuminations: Dynamic Paper - 0 views

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    Create geometric figures easily to your specs.
Anne Marie Littrell

101_Tips.pdf - 0 views

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    Great resource/list of icebreakers, paired activities, group work ideas, and much more.
Kenneth Griswold

infuselearning | Empowering The BYOD REVOLUTION - 1 views

  • InfuseLearning is a breakthrough virtual learner response solution
  • Engage every student, on any device
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    Infuse learning, like Socrative, is a web-based learner response solution that can work on any internet-connected device.  With this solution, learner response is simple.  This is especially appropriate for the BYOD classroom.  This system allows the creation of "whiteboard" items where students draw their responses.
Kenneth Griswold

PARCC- sample test items and task prototypes - 0 views

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    In this section of the PARCC website, sample items are provided for English and Math at a variety of grade levels.
Kenneth Griswold

Where the Common Core Meets Common Sense | November Learning - 1 views

  • Research shows that students primarily use one search engine and then only look at the first page of results.
  • our students have weaker research skills as a result of not being taught the rigor and discipline of using Google and other search tools across the curriculum in all grade levels
  • Our general analysis is that our students don’t know that they don’t know.
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  • common sense and the Common Core.
  • Most states will have to rethink their approach to teaching critical analysis of all kinds of information, as the standards require that students be able to: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism; Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research; and Interpret mathematical results in the context of a situation and reflect on whether the results make sense, possibly improving the model if it has not served its purpose.
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    This article from Alan November discusses "web literacy" and the kinds of skills essential for digitally literate students and where these skills are found in the Common Core State Standards.   He makes a compelling argument for teaching these skills to students and provides some ideas about how it may be accomplished.
Kenneth Griswold

Braingenie- CK12 Math practice - 1 views

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    Free online math practice organized by Common Core State Standards.   These free modules would be excellent to use for math practice centers.   Each practice quiz includes links to an instructional video and keeps track of student performance.   
Kenneth Griswold

Wufoo · Online Form Builder! - 4 views

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    Online form building tool. It will store/compile your data take payment and much more. Although there is a monthly fee for a subscription, there is an option for a one month free trial that will allow you to build a few forms for free.
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    Actually, the free option is not a trial. You can have a free account that will allow up to 3 forms and 3 reports at the same time. There is no monthly cost for the free level account and there is no trial period. This is an example of a "freemium" service that offers a totally free basic service with the opportunity to upgrade to a subscription level premium account with additional features or capacity for a monthly fee.
Kenneth Griswold

Learning Never Stops: eQuiz Show - Create Online Jeopardy Style Quiz Games - 1 views

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    via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation
Kenneth Griswold

Google Forms for Teachers~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: google forms - 1 views

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    A great collection of posts for teachers on the many valuable uses of google forms.
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