Newsela | Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events. A 'Gobstopper' Of A Humanities Assignment. Pick any point in the educator-entrepreneur landscape, Jason Singer has been there. Soon after college, he spent a couple of years teaching high school in the Mississippi Teacher Corps and wound up getting named "Teacher of the Year" in the Greenwood Public Schools. He then moved to the San Francisco Bay area and started a still thriving, nonprofit youth empowerment and employment agency. Following a one-year jaunt into the business world, he founded and was principal of two KIPP schools.And now Singer's launching Gobstopper, a product aimed at helping teachers manage their students' reading assignments.
How it works: Say a teacher assigns "A Midsummer Night's Dream. " Rather than later sending out worksheets or quizzes, teachers can embed questions and comments--even a video of themselves talking--within the text. Quizzes embedded in the text get automatically graded. And those Macbooks? "There is no question that [summer reading] is in the best of all worlds essential. Transform your students into critical thinkers - Actively Learn. 'Fakebook'! Create a Fake Facebook Profile Wall using this generator.
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Schools. BoomWriter lets you easily incorporate and experience the benefits of technology as your students are engaged in the following (or similar) standards-based learning activities: Grade 3 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. Using BoomWriter’s feature allowing teachers to create their own story start, students collaboratively create imagined multi-paragraph personal narratives using a teacher generated prompt (e.g.
“When I woke up on Saturday morning, I had no idea I was in for the craziest day of my entire life…”). Grade 5 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.2 - Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. Grade 6 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.1 - Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.