Category: Core Tools
Global Collaboration with Common Sense Education
Our February and March ISTE focus is on Global Collaborator! This standard calls students to collaborate both locally (within their own classroom context), as well as beyond. Using technology to access and share information, students will learn from diverse perspectives and work on complex problems with peers. In response to this ISTE standard, Common ...
Using Classkick for Professional Development
Hopefully you are all enjoying a restful break! Over the next several days, you will likely start to get back into the swing and routine of things. As we prepare to return to school, you might find it helpful to know about simple, easily-accessible resources that you can use to enhance your practice with your ...
Common Sense Education’s Review of Apps
In a sea of apps and resources, Common Sense has led the way in curating and recommending different electronic resources for use in classrooms and outside of school. One of the wonderful things about technology is that it is constantly evolving. This can also be daunting, and at times, scary. In the spirit of being ...
Exploring Classkick’s Assignment Library
In addition to providing interesting templates for teachers to use in designing many different assignments/tasks, Classkick has an Assignment Library where other teachers have uploaded sample assignments (if you're familiar with Seesaw, it functions similarly to the "activity library"). This is an amazing resource if you are looking for templates, assignments that already match your ...
Common Sense Education: A Curation of Digital Resources
Do you want to integrate more technology into your teaching, but aren't sure where to find new resources? Common Sense, an incredible resource for teaching digital citizenship, also supports teachers in finding quality digital resources to support curriculum across content areas. In a "top picks" section, Common Sense outlines curated lists of instructional tech tools. ...
Teacher Feature: Classkick with Michelle Moon’s Class
For our first "teacher feature" of this school year, I had the pleasure of visiting Mrs. Moon's fourth grade class at Discovery Elementary to see how her students are using Classkick to demonstrate their mathematical thinking! In math workshop, students are in three differentiated stations: one group works on Classkick/Zearn using iPads independently, a second ...
Common Sense Education’s Professional Development Library
Common Sense Education is known for their extensive resources for classroom teachers, but did you know that it also has an entire professional development side? Included in this bank of resources are short educator videos, longer webinars, a professional development blog, and case studies of districts that have found success with Common Sense Education. Offering ...
Using Seesaw to Differentiate in Math
Here is another way to offer differentiated opportunities for your students during math while incorporating technology at the same time! Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio where students can create, reflect, share, and collaborate to “show what they know” using photos, videos, drawings and text. Seesaw and Eureka Math Ideas: Fluency – Have students record themselves ...
Differentiating Instruction & Feedback through Classkick
Classkick allows students to receive work, complete, and turn in assignments completely online. Using the free app, students work at their own pace and get help instantly without interrupting the flow or having students wait for the teacher to assist them. Students access the Classkick assignments through a simple code. One elementary teacher who uses ...
Common Sense Education Celebrates Media Literacy Week
This week is Media Literacy Week! One of our core tools, Common Sense Education, has always has equipped educators with the tools that they need to support students in understanding how to navigate the digital world. As such, Common Sense Education has information and resources for teachers on how to teach media literacy effectively. They've published ...