Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Common Core Challenges for California « InterACT

Common Core Challenges for California « InterACT:


Common Core Challenges for California

Today’s InterACT guest blog post comes to us from Alice Mercer, an elementary school teacher, educational technology guru, and blogger. Her recent attendance at the ISTE 2012 Conference provided an opportunity to consider again the process of Common Core State Standards implementation.  Here’s a link to her prior guest posts at InterACT.
exhibit hallConference exhibit halls offer educators a plethora of Common Core-aligned products
I spent my last week of June at the ISTE Conference (International Society for Technology in Education) in San Diego, CA. Given that the new Common Core standards feature the use of technology by student prominently, I expected the standards to be front and center at the conference. Since I’ve been blogging about Common Core lately, I looked forward to hearing more. The conference program promised a number of sessions on the subject. Many of these were put on by vendors, who were no doubt seeking to make money off the fear of