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Tag: Common Core Standards

  • Badges and Common Core

    From Matthew Farber came an article that was interesting as it addressed an issue I am grappling with Badges, the Common Core, and a gamified classroom.  This is a good category and site to follow the topic on. Mozilla’s Open Badges Backpack serves as a virtual resume to display one’s mastered skills. Gamifying Education One…

  • Innovation around Common Core

    It isn’t just lifting the lowest 30 state standards to real college and career readiness levels, but the tie with OER, that will be the legacy of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Tom Vander Ark on GettingSmart.com says that the new standards unleashed a timely wave of investment in digital content. He goes on…

  • Embed Common Core Standards on Moodle

    MasterConnect has a widget to fit everyone and with Standards being required, sometimes it is helpful to have them at your fingertips, check out their phone apps. And sometimes it is useful to have them on your site. See below: What I am actually using on Moodle is the Widget to pull in from the…