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ELA standards are standards set by the state for English language arts & literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subject. There are tons and tons of different standards set under many different subject areas but one that particularly stood out to me was to use a smartboard in your classroom to teach your lesson. I do pretty well with technology and have used smartboards since my middle school years, so I feel this gives me enough experience to not be nervous to use them in my classroom. CPALMS is a resource for educators to use specifically for those in Florida laying out Florida standards, lesson plans, videos, games, curriculum planning tool, and more. I would most definitely use the tool kits with the standards laid out for the teacher this would help ensure that I meet all standards necessary to teach my little ones exactly what they need to learn within that year to go on to higher grade levels and learn more. Also, along with the list...

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Open education is a movement focusing on providing many resources, tools and practices free of legal, and financial barriers allowing individuals to use, share and adapt content digitally. Giving those with limited resources and financials a chance to enhance their teaching and learning abilities with more available up to date information. I have personally in the past used Khan Academy an example of an open education source to supplement my own learning abilities. With this source people can have an extra resource of teachings to help motivate their learning and gain quality educational practices for free. Khan Academy provides educational content in areas such as math, science, computing, arts & humanities, economics and even test prep. Open content is content available to anyone for free and gives the person the freedom to retain, reuse, redistribute, revise, and remix the content without the fear of invading on copyrighted content. As...