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Captioner: Add comic book style captions to your photos!
BigHugeLabs has a Captioner tool which enables uses to add comic book style captions to digital photographs! Put words in someone else's mouth. Make an entire comic based on your photos. Tell a story....
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Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners Blog
View the CoolTools Blog, a regularly updated source of ideas for efficient and effective technology integrationSee it on Scoop.it, via Cool Tools for Common Core Connections
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Teaching Reading in Science Class: A Common Core Trend?
To be clear, students are still expected to learn their reading and writing skills in their ELA classes. But what’s the harm in asking students to argue a cogent point or extrapolate information from...
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Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: TeachEm: Create Guided YouTube Lessons
TeachEm is a free and user friendly digital tool that allows users to capture YouTube content, organize it, and add time stamped flashcards to guide the learning.See it on Scoop.it, via Cool Tools for...
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5 Instructional Shifts to Promote Deep Learning
Technology is a powerful tool for learning that can be used effectively to help students develop the skills necessary to succeed in school and beyond.See it on Scoop.it, via Cool Tools for Common Core...
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Common Core Connections: Using Multimedia to Present Knowledge & Ideas
In general, the Common Core calls for the seamless integration of technology into the curriculum. There are also specific Common Core standards dedicated to using technology. The Speaking and Listening...
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Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: 327 Common Core Aligned Playlists from...
MentorMob and LearnZillion have teamed up to create a comprehensive collection of Common Core aligned learning playlists perfect for providing students with easy access to guided learning...
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Common Core Connections: Unpacking Academic Vocabulary
Are you wondering where to begin to adopt the Common Core Vocabulary Standards? While there are many specific vocabulary standards clearly listed in the K-12 Language strand, it's helpful and important...
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Planning Text-Dependent Questions
The Common Core emphasizes close reading and text-dependent questions. So what are text-dependent questions, and how can teachers develop them?See it on Scoop.it, via Cool Tools for Common Core...
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Critical Thinking Works | Smart Resources for Forward-Thinking Schools
The Common Core emphasizes...Implementation of the Common...text in the early...text (K-5): Beginning in...Core, indicates that there...Text Dependent...See it on Scoop.it, via Cool Tools for Common...
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5 Top Resources for Aligning Social Studies Curricula to the Common Core...
5 Top Resources for Aligning Your Social Studies Curricula to the Common Core Social studies supervisors and teachers across the country are revising their unit plans to meet their state’s…...See it...
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EngageNY | Our Students. Their Moment.
An excellent resource!See it on Scoop.it, via Cool Tools for Common Core Connections
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The Collaborative Development of OER Aligned with the Common Core: A Policy...
Forty-seven states and territories have fully adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts and mathematics. The implementation of CCSS will be extremely costly to states, in...
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Next Generation Literacy Assessments – Are You Ready? One way to start
Several Colorado districts have been integrating the strategies developed by the national Literacy Design Collaborative. These strategies are posted on an emerging resource curated by ASCD called...
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What Is Critical Thinking?
Professor Paul Gary Wyckoff articulates the critical thinking skills he wants his students to learn.See it on Scoop.it, via Cool Tools for Common Core Connections
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Nerdy Teacher Talk: Lesson Plans, Google Docs, and the Common Core
Skip this post if you're not a teacher. I know most of my readers are runners, but a few of you are teachers, so I wanted to share this idea. For non-teachers, this post is going to be VERY long and...
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Unpacking the Common Core: Technology Powered Projects
Technology can be a powerful tool to help us meet the Common Core Standards and prepare our students for success in school and beyond, and a great way to use that technology is with student...
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Introducing an Experiment: Weekly Common Core Practice Prompts
We're collaborating with two New Jersey teachers and their freshman classes to bring you three quick, engaging tasks each week that match the demands of the Common Core Standards with the content of...
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Wikispaces for Designing Common Core Activities - Getting Smart by Susan Oxnevad
To truly embrace the Common Core Standards perhaps it is necessary for teachers to put some distance between themselves and scripted curriculum and utilize their own digital literacy skills to become...
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Close Reading
In her Prezi, Erica Beaton leads teachers on a journey from her days of teaching that “all thoughts about texts are great” to her current approach of “I want you to legitimately understand and interact...
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