Technology

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Great Blog (This is the teacher I steal from): Experiments in Educational Technology

Here are some of the Powerpoint presentations we used in the CCA.

Here are the resources from Davis School District: [|&NodeID=1842]

Sites for getting a lexile score. http://www.lexile.com/findabook http://www.lexile.com/analyzer

Gutenberg Project free ebooks online download for iPad, Kindle, Nook, etc. www.gutenberg.org

Resources listed in the Participant guide:

This website has the I Can statements that teachers can use when introducing standards to students. They are all written in kid-friendly language. There is a good reproducible here –page 185--for determining assessment effectiveness. __Perhaps to use with assessing writing: Task 6 at the end of day 2__?)
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 *  (USOE) http://www.schools.utah.gov/core/
 * (Cache School District) [|**Attachment:**] [| Range-Complexity-Comparison[1.pdf]] (216K
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 * [|http://jsdsecondaryelacommoncore.wordpress.com] (Jordan School District Site)
 * http://twitter.com/CCoreUpDates
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(On page 7, there is an insert that says “causes for concern.” This might make a good introduction to one of the days—even day one—as an introduction of why the CCSS will help us move kids to the 21st Century skills?) This is a really concise, teacher –friendly resource for writing / social network / technology/ Websites, wiki, etc.)  (This is an excerpt from this site. “70 percent of students in Grades 4–12 are considered low-achieving writers. College instructors estimate that 50 percent of high school graduates are not prepared for college-level writing. 35 percent of [|high school] graduates in college and 38 percent of high school graduates in the workforce believe that their writing does not meet expectations of quality. About half of private employers and more than 60 percent of state government employers state that writing skills impact promotion decisions. Poorly written applications are likely to doom candidates’ chances for employment.”
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All three of these are sites that might help with the explanation of the __shift from persuasion to argumentation__. [] Go here to receive your own copy of Inquire for free!
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