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Creatively Teach the Common Core with Technology

Catlin Tucker

Educators today are facing two major shifts in education–a move to the Common Core Standards and increasing pressure to teach students with the technology they’ll be expected to use in their lives beyond high school. Creating dynamic digital stories with mobile devices. Real-time editing with Google docs.

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3 steps we’re taking to ensure true digital equity

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About 73 percent of our nearly 9,000 students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, and 36 percent are bilingual or speak English as a second language. We have a fiber network connecting our 13 schools. But we realize that’s only a starting point, and we need to do more than just give every child a mobile device.

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How we increased our graduation rate and student achievement

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Biggest challenge: MDCPS’ challenge was to increase graduation rates so that at least 90 percent of students will graduate with a standard high school diploma by 2020. The initiative involved three projects: wireless networks at schools. the deployment of mobile devices. Lessons learned: Persistence.

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6 new apps to know, love, and use

eSchool News

Apps are fun and engaging tools for educators who have access to mobile devices and who want to use digital resources with students. Check out this list of apps, ranging from kindergarten through high school and touching on topics such as chess, geography, literacy, and more.

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Carousel Digital Signage and Indiana School District Get into the School Spirit

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The K-12 public school district now uses Carousel Cloud to distribute department-specific messaging throughout its high school. The school district is also working with Carousel partner Jamf to securely convert Apple TV devices into media players, and providing access to meeting room schedules on mobile devices.

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Teaching digital citizenship across the whole curriculum

eSchool News

According to Common Sense Media’s study “ Zero to Eight: Children’s Media Use in America ,” the percentage of children ages eight and under who’ve used a mobile device nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013, from 38 percent to 72 percent. What’s more, about two in five children under the age of two have used a mobile device.

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IXL Wins 2021 CODiE Awards for Best Math and English Language Arts Solutions

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July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by more than 12 million students, announced that the IXL platform won two SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Advanced Mathematics and Best Foundational English Language Arts (ELA) categories. SAN MATEO, Calif.,

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