Maybe you’re at a similar point on your school calendar: standardized testing is on the horizon. In Maryland, the state assessments for grades 3-8 are just a couple of short weeks away. They begin March 13. Between now and then, we’ll be reviewing material from our first units; activating knowledge from last spring, when my… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: February 2012
Turn Your Essay In With Google Docs
It is my sincere hope that the details of this post will be useless in the near future. Until that time, this is one way I’ve cooked up to facilitate my students writing digital. The reason that I hope that much of this post will be useless is that my fingers are crossed that Google… Read more »
Hi, I'm Andrew Plemmons Pratt. I currently teach 7th-grade English / Reading / Language Arts at a turnaround school in Prince George’s County, Maryland. This year, my classroom is piloting a 1:1 iPad program designed to accelerate middle-school literary. I write about education technology here at appratt.com and at the EdTech 101 blog on . I'm a 2010 Teach For America corps member, and before that I was the managing editor at , the science and tech policy magazine at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, DC-based think tank.