With myriad adaptations for use in the classroom, MinecraftEdu brings Common Core–enhanced gaming to students.
Librarian Creates Site for Teachers to Earn Digital Badges for New Skills
Even teachers need a little acknowledgment for learning new skills, according to library media specialist Laura Fleming. Through her site, Worlds of Learning, Fleming is offering teachers at her school and beyond the opportunity to earn digital badges—honors that can be posted online—for mastering digital literacy in various areas, from QR codes to video editing.
SLJ Reviews Gobstopper and Subtext: Apps that Enable Interactive Classroom Reading
Planning Common Core Lessons?: Free, Web-based applications can help align your plans with the new standards
Ready or not, here they come. At almost every school I visited this year, teachers asked me to address the Common Core (CC) standard in my workshops. Planning lessons with CC in mind presents a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be difficult. These sites are designed with the express purpose of helping plan lessons around Common Core.