PBS Positive Behavior Supports How Common Core Standards Mesh With Education Technology If you’re a teacher in the US, you’ve surely heard of the Common Core Standards , the national academic standards for K-12 schools. While there’s always a lot of mumbling and grumbling when it comes to anyone mandating what should be taught and how to get there, the Common Core Standards have been adopted by 45 of the states, so they’re not exactly something that can be easily ignored. So how do all of the newer, innovative teaching methods and ideas mesh with having to meet certain standards? The Intersection The Common Core Standards, the national academic standards for K-12 schools in the United States, have now been adopted by 45 of the states.
Mission Possible: Playing Games with Professional Development A few posts ago, I talked a bit about Gamification in education. I then went on to discuss an idea I had to apply this to my classroom with Galaxy Fleet. After presenting at last weekend's Iowa Edcamp, I am inclined to give you some specifics of the Professional Development model I created that uses these principles. Mission Possible is our district's model for professional development with regards to technology in our 1:1. The Back End of Gamification in our 1:1 Professional Development I have posted several previous blogs on my model for gamification in our professional development. If you are interested in how the idea was started, read "Gamification in Education: It's World of Warcraft without the Warcraft." or "Mission Possible: Playing Games with Professional Development." If you are interested in how I incorporated crowdsourcing into the game, read "Crowdsourcing your 1:1 Professional Development." If you are interested in how I keep track of the points on the back end of the system, continue reading on:) I will begin by saying that this is by no means the best way to do this. I am not a programmer, I am a physics teacher.
Levels of Use Adapted from C. Moertsch (1998), Computer Efficiency, Learning and Leading with Technology, p. 53; and G.E. Hall & S.M. New Technologies in Education schoooools.com is an online schools community — the schoooools. Each school is an official representation of a real school, in the web. Just like in real life, to each school at schoooools.com can only access students, teachers and parents, authorized by the school, creating a safe and close space. Using the same school organization and the same school concepts, schoooools.com has a natural simplicity for all. For this reason, it's easy to work, play, collaborate and communicate with everybody. schoooools.com is available for any educative institutions, private or public, for kids from 4 up to 12. Private Social Networksschoooools.com is organized just like a real school, so it is all intuitive.
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