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THE KEY TO ALIGNING YOUR K-5 CLASS WITH COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

30 Projects that integrate technology into core lesson plans

30 Technology Projects Aligned With Common Core State Standards is for classroom teachers, technology integration specialists and lab professionals, as a resource for aligning their technology program with the Common Core State Standards now implemented in forty-six states. You will find it a foundational tool for scaffolding technology into the areas of math, language, reading, writing, speaking and listening as is required in CCSS. Overall, they are authentic approaches to student-centered learning, asking the student to be a risk-taker in his/her educational goals and the teacher to act as guide. The essential questions are open-ended and conversations organic and inquiry-driven, ultimately asking students to take responsibility for the process of their own learning.

It can be used as a resource book, to provide exciting new lessons that seamlessly blend technology with lesson plans and involve students in the many new tools available to enrich their educational experiences, or a road map, plotting the vertical planning and differentiated instruction fundamental to CCSS goals.

There are thirty lessons, five per grade level. Each includes:

The Common Core State Standard alignment

The Essential Question—the Big Idea

An Overview

Objectives and Steps

A Sample (where appropriate)

Links to related websites and material (where applicable)

Additional grade levels suitable for the lesson

Available in print and digital from:

Amazon.com (print–late June)

Teachers Pay Teachers (ebooks–late June)

Scribd.com (ebooks–late June)

Publisher’s website (print and digital)

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K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum

This is your guide to what our children must know at what age to thrive in the community called the internet. It’s a roadmap for blending all pieces into a cohesive, effective student-directed cyber-learning experience that accomplishes ISTE’s general goals.

Each grade level includes 3-8 lessons, a full year of instruction for K-8, in non-sequential order so it fits nicely into your school schedule or current technology curriculum, with a project for each topic. It can take the entire 45-minute class if you have time or multiple pieces of various classes. Here’s a schedule of what topics are covered at which grade level. Some start in kindergarten and are reinforced each year. Others, we wait until students have the maturity to understand the concept

Available in print and digital from:

Amazon.com (print)

Teachers Pay Teachers (ebooks–late June)

Scribd.com (ebooks–late June)

Publisher’s website (print and digital)

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K-8 Keyboarding Curriculum

You may think it impossible to find an effective keyboarding curriculum for the skimpy forty-five minutes a week you can devote to keyboarding. You teach what you can, but it always seems to be the same lessons—hands on home row, good posture, eyes on copy. You wonder if it’s making a difference, or if it matters.

Yes, it does and there is a way. It requires a plan, faithfully executed, with your eye relentlessly on the goal, but if you commit, it works.

In this book, The Essential Guide to Teaching Keyboarding in 45 Minutes a Week: a K-8 Curriculum, I’ll share a unique keyboarding curriculum for K-8 that I’ve seen work on thousands of students.

The book includes:

A summary of the literature
Answers to questions like ‘Can youngers learn to keyboard—and should they?’
Importance of the teacher

The K-8 curriculum includes a lot more variety than keyboard exercises on installed software. Here’s a rundown of pieces used:

Keyboarding software (yes, you do need repetition)
Online keyboarding websites
Age-appropriate use of hand covers
Quarterly speed/accuracy quizzes
Quarterly blank keyboarding quizzes
Monthly homework
Wall charts to support learning and display evidence of success
Grading based on student improvement, not conformity to class norms

You’ll learn practical strategies on how to blend these pieces, each added at the right time, to teach the keyboarding skills required for today’s classroom. Each lesson includes:

Overview
Objectives and steps
Best Practices
Extensions
Trouble-shooting
Where to get help

Note to readers: Color shown in the sample image gallery are included in PDF version only, sold separately.

Available in print and digital from:

Amazon.com (print)

Teachers Pay Teachers (ebooks–late June)

Scribd.com (ebooks–late June)

Publisher’s website (print and digital)

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43 Themed PDF Bundles

What’s included in each bundle:

Four to eight technology-specific step-by-step lessons, including reproducibles, grading rubrics, sample projects, extensions for advanced students and troubleshooting tips.
Next-day delivery via email in the universally-readable .pdf format
How projects integrate technology into your curriculum whether you’re the classroom teacher, the lab teacher or home-schooling your child
A summary of each project, suggested grade level and prior knowledge, time required, software required, and projects that should be completed prior to this one
A summary of which higher-order thinking skills and which NETS-S technology-specific skills are covered

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98 Tech Problems From the Classroom: And How Students Can Solve Them

Running a tech lab can be frightening. What if there’s a problem you don’t know how to answer? What if the computers break? What if they all break at once?

Several years ago, in an effort to create a practical strategy for technology success, I started tracking how often I got the same tech questions from students. Soon, I extended it to parents who, in a well-intentioned effort to help with school work, often got stuck on a techie issue. Some spent hours on a problem that could have been solved in minutes–if only they knew how to do that.

Turns out, 70% of the time, it was the same 98 problems.

I’m going to share these with you. You’ll find them inquiry-driven and student-centered, authentic solutions to organic conversations. If you’re a new tech teacher, make sure you know them because you’ll be asked for these answers over and over throughout the school year—in fact, you’ll be expected to know them. After all, you’re the tech expert.

If you’re a veteran teacher integrating technology into units of inquiry and/or Common Core State Standards, these tips will be invaluable. You are usually on your own in the classroom, without tech experts to assist. Keep this ebook handy and you’ll have more time to devote to classroom projects.

Whoever you are, you’ll want to teach your students these practical strategies for fixing their biggest show stoppers.

Available for next-day digital delivery from:

Teachers Pay Teachers (mid-June)

Scribd.com (mid-June)

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19 Posters to Decorate Your Technology Lab

19 eposters for new and experienced tech teachers to remind students of the basics of computer use. Includes keyboard tips, website usage, mouse control, how to solve common problems, parts of the computer, email netiquette, how to search, volunteer guidelines and more. Bonus: sample structure for a 45-minute tech class. A must-have for new teacher. A time-saver for everyone.

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18 (more) Posters to Decorate Your Technology Lab

18 More Posters for the technology lab or classroom–all 8.5×11 in full color (digital delivery–print yourself). A must for new tech teachers. A bonus for everyone else. (Digital delivery)

Here’s a summary of posters

Plug in
10 Steps to become a BETTER GEEK
15 ways to get Your Geek On
Want to use this image?
The Virtual Neighborhood
Evidence Wall
Portrait Orientation
Landscape Orientation
Learn like a Champion
Learn on!
Netiquette rules
Email Etiquette
Save early, save oftehn
Select-do
Copyright law
Digital Citizenship To Do List
Shortkey list for computers
Use shortcuts. Get done faster
What’s a Mulligan? (Bonus)

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760+ Tech Ed Links

Are you the tech specialist? IT Coordinator? Do the teachers at your school ask you for websites to tie in with their classroom topics–and want it in an hour?

This is for you.

This 36-page PDF includes over 760 K-5 websites organized by grade level and subject that will connect tech to every subject in your school. They’re sites that the Ask a Tech Teacher crew uses every year in every class they teach. If you’re the IT coordinator or tech ed specialist or the technology teacher, you’ll want this.

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38 Web 2.0 Articles That Will Turn Your Class Around

Seventy-six epages of the 38 most requested articles from Ask A Tech Teacher©. They cover critical Web 2.0 topics like how blogging makes students better writers, the importance of social media to education, how to teach keyboarding the right way, top ten tips for teaching MS Word, why technology is important for all learners, what to include on the youngest child’s computer, using internet start pages in tech lab and more. Each article is quick (1-2 pages), pithy, and easy-to-understand. They’re written by a working tech teacher with fifteen years experience teaching technology to all age groups.

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16 Holiday Projects

for Kindergarten-Eighth

A 45-epage student-tested collection of 16 holiday-themed projects for kindergarten through eighth grade using Word, Excel, Publisher, KidPix, TuxPaint, Web 2.0 tools and more. They’re from the team of Ask a Tech Teacher technology teachers, designed to to be fun, festive, while teaching important tech skills. Use them for any holiday. They’ll fill your year with pictures, calendars, wallpaper that kids will love making and want to give to family as gifts.Free if you buy 3 SL books

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BUILDING A MIDSHIPMAN

How to Crack the USNA Application

You don’t have to be a miracle-worker to the 10% of applicants accepted to a military academy, but you do need a plan. For the thousands of students who apply every year–and slog through the numbing concatenation of decisions preceding a nomination–there is no greater discouragement than the likely event that they will fail. This, though, is the Board’s peek into an applicant’s moral fiber and an important ingredient to the go/no go decision. In the words of James Stockdale, USNA ’46 and Medal of Honor Winner: “The test of character is not ‘hanging in there’ when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel, but performance of duty and persistence of example when you know that no light is coming.” This is the true story of Maggie Schmidt, an All-American kid who dreamt of attending the Naval Academy when her research into the typical Midshipman uncovered a profile alarmingly like herself. This book describes her background and academic interests, her focus, as well as her struggle to put together a winning admissions package. Along the way, you gain insight into the moral fiber that grounds everything she does and the decisions she must make that some consider impossible for an adolescent, but are achievable for thousands of like-minded teens. This workbook walks you through the long process, provides check lists of everything required, decision making matrices, goal-setting exercises to determine if USNA is a good fit for you, and a mix of motivation and academic advice to balance a decision that rightfully might be the biggest one most teens have ever made. See the publisher’s website at structuredlearning.net for more details.

Amazon.com–paperback

Amazon.com–Kindle Edition

Scribd.com–ebook