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The ThemeSpark™ free web-based teacher tool was designed by former teacher David Hunter. The creator of the innovative Zombie-Based Learning curriculum, he founded our parent company EdCourage, Inc. to offer powerful teacher tools that easily add Authentic Learning to standards-based curriculum. David will be presenting on this topic at ASCD15 in Houston. 
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"Recently, MasteryConnect unveiled a cool, social bookmarking feature for standards aligned resources. Much like the Pinterest paradigm of social bookmarking, teachers find or upload any resource on the web, align it to a state or Common Core standard, and “pin” it to a board or collection. Like MasteryConnect’s community of teacher-created formative assessments, it seems that MasteryConnect is at it again, working to create the biggest collection of resources for the Common Core." Via Susan Oxnevad
Ludmila Smirnova's curator insight,
August 13, 2013 4:06 PM
Looks promising and getting it from Susan Oxnevad (http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html) makes it even more convinsing!
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Fred Sitkins takes a closer look at how teachers and other educators are integrating technology into the common core. Via Gust MEES
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"This week Khan Academy announced 2,500 new math practice problems specifically aligned to the Common Core, with the help of a team of teachers and content specialists who've vetted and reviewed each item. Teachers can find them in this new Common Core map that outlines each Common Core math standard and links them to practice problems. Check out the changes here."
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The fourth in a series of five posts on STEM, PBL and the Common Core. Each has a different focus. The previous three posts are also available on this page. Via Beth Dichter
Beth Dichter's curator insight,
May 31, 2013 10:31 PM
Formative assessments, formative learning, the two go hand in hand. This post explores 23 resources that can be used in STEM classes and for Project Based Learning, Read the post and find resources that will help look at formative assessments in many areas including: * Activities * Simulations * Games * Reflections * Journals * Peer review * Videos * Peer and Teacher interaction * Readings * Critical and Creative brainstorming and thinking 
Ante Lauc's curator insight,
June 1, 2013 4:43 AM
I prefer love and freedom and look everything through these criterias.
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"Tests now being designed for the common standards are likely to gauge deeper levels of learning and have a major impact on classroom instruction, according to a study of the common assessments released today." Via Beth Dichter, Jim Lerman
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February 3, 2013 9:56 PM
The Common Core testing is rapidly approaching and this article discusses a research paper that was just released by UCLA's National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards & Student Testing. They state that "the assessments hold a lot of promise for improving teacher practice and student learning" and that "the test-making projects face key financial, technical, and political challenges that could affect their success." They also reference a variety of resources, including one new to me called the Depth of Knowledge Levels (DOK), which provides four levels (the link to the DOK is at http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/sia/msip/DOK_Chart.pdf): * Level One is recall * Level Two is skill/concept * Level Three is strategic thinking * Level Four is extended thinking The link to this DOK reminds me of Bloom's Taxonomy with verbs to help you understand each section as well as activities based on the level. The question that remains to be answered is if the tests being created by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium will reach these levels, and according to this report it appears that will have "the more lengthy, complex performance tasks being crafted by the two groups...seemed likely to assess skills at DOK Level 4." The post also discusses some of the issues that remain, including cost and time of testing, cost of scoring, dealing with accomocations, and "Managing the "shock to the public and to teachers' instructional practice" that the tests' increased intellectual rigor will demand." 
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February 4, 2013 12:59 PM
How do you test creativity and innovation using "set" core standards of evaluation? Creativity and innovation require a certain amount of willingness for failure and risk taking. How does training for common core test "standards" assist that higher level goal? |
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