Education writer Greg Toppo and Vicki Phillips hosted a Twitter chat on what makes a digital game good (or bad), what teachers have learned from bringing digital games into their classrooms and what game designers can learn from teachers’ experiences.
Highlights and favorite tools from the chat are curated below.
Teachers know that meeting students’ individual needs in a bustling classroom is a Sisyphean task. But the job may be getting easier, thanks to a variety of new digital literacy tools. Last year Debra Rook began using Newsela, a program that uses news articles about current events to build reading comprehension, and customizes each article for five different reading levels.
Jul 08, 2015
Toolkit
Forming Quadratics
This Professional Learning Module provides guidelines for implementing the Shell Center’s Formative Assessment Lesson, Forming Quadratics. Educators can use this information to better understand how to apply the lesson, which is compatible with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), to their own instruction.
This Professional Learning Module provides guidelines for implementing the Shell Center’s Formative Assessment Lesson, Evaluating Statements About Enlargements. Educators can use this information to better understand how to apply the lesson, which is compatible with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), to their own instruction.