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Eclectic Technology
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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This is Part 3 of a four part series. In this post Step 6 and 7 are presented. Step 6 suggest that you include an advance organizer to help students apply their past knowledge and connect it to their new knowledge. A wide range of suggestions are provided as well as recources to help you with Advance Organizer. Step 7 discuses how to incorporate formative learning and assessment. There is a discussion on formative assessments as well as a wide variety of additional resources. Links to the first two posts in this series in in this post (and they are also posted in this Scoop.it). 
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Throughout history, textbooks have been a burden to students: They're heavy, expensive and quickly out-of-date. However, technology is playing a major role in how textbooks and education are changing as a whole. Check out this infographic for more information.
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I hope you enjoyed the past post and welcome you to a series of posts of series dedicated to Creativity in digital classroom. I have some reflection, ideas, and some amazing resources to share. ...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Once again Michael Gorman has put together a great list of Web 2.0 tools that you might want to use in your classroom. In this post he provided information on 15 tools, and each tool has a variety of resources, ranging from tutorials to blog postings that discuss the tool to ways you might use the tool in your classroom and much more. A few of the tools mentioned include: * Glogster * Voki * Storybird * Answer Garden Check the post to learn more about these plus 11 additional tools!
douglas brassard's curator insight,
March 11, 2015 10:54 AM
This scoop is good because it shows the creativity in the digital classroom. 
alena sanchez's curator insight,
March 12, 2015 12:05 PM
This gives you reflection on the things you have been working on, scoop it is a very easy way to find things that you need
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This is the first post of a four part series on ways to bring transform your lessons to meet the needs of the digital era, and explores steps 1 - 3. The first three stpes look at setting the foundation. Specifically, * Locate the one lesson you want to transform * Declare your standards (with links to help you meet this goal) * Incorporate the 21st century skills (also with links to help you meet this goal) If you are looking for ideas on how you might begin to infuse your lesson plans with 21st century skills and technology this series of posts will be a great tool!
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The Newseum Digital Classroom is a national news literacy website that provides high-quality digital media content in a curriculum-based structure for elementary, high school and college classes. The easily accessible materials meet the standards of learning requirements of many states and give students a deeper understanding of the five freedoms of the First Amendment...to promote critical thinking and civic responsibility and verify the timeless belief that an informed citizenry is the bulwark of democracy.
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This is the third in a series exploring creativity in the digital classroom and it focuses on literacy resources in your classroom. Groman makes a note that the Common Core includes the following statements:
* “Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners …”
* “Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others …”
The use of digital resources and digital tools will help meet these goals and this post provides information on the following tools:
* Kidblog
* Classchatter
* Wikispace for Education
* Weebly
* Wikipedia
* ePubBud
* Meet me at the Corner
* Edmodo or My Big Campus
Have fun exploring!