Tuesday, July 23, 2013

ISTE 2013: Building Technology into the Common Core Standards

This short video provides suggestions from five educational professionals on how to use technology to increase student outcomes and student engagement in light of Common Core.  One of the speakers, Kevin Honeycutt, states that teachers "were covering content, but we weren't uncovering anything."  Now that subject standards have been reduced, teachers no longer have the excuse that they have 'run out of time.'  Honeycutt adds, that "Now that teachers won't have many things to cover, let's go deep and make sure kids understand."  Technology can help to increase student understanding.  The last speaker in the video, a library technologist, says that her vision for Common Core is to transform her library into a makerspace where students can learn for the sake of learning. 

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/video/iste-2013-building-technology-common-core-standards

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