Common Core, Content Creation, and Curriculum.

Engelbrecht, Shannon.

CA

Troutner, J. (2012). Common Core, Content Creation, and Curriculum. Teacher Librarian, 40(2), 48-50.

Summary: The author, Joanne Troutner, provides a guided tour to various online resources and tools for learning about and teaching the common core state standards (CCSS). It lists many examples of popular online learning and social media tools that have been used to create and share CCSS information and curriculum.

Evaluation: This article takes quite a long time to read, even though it is less than a thousand words long. Each paragraph guides the reader on a tour of a common core content implementation of a popular online tool. For example, the first paragraph invites the reader to look over a Pinterest board of CCSS related materials. Then, on to a LiveBinders collection of materials about the CCSS, with a suggestion from the article author to share these materials on a weekly basis to support other educators becoming familiar with CCSS. Stopping and exploring these resources reveals a wealth of information to digest and leverage, and it is worth every minute. In all, Troutner offers ten resources to peruse. A guide to these online tools would have been an useful article. Troutner takes it a step further by choosing implementations that are specific to the biggest educational concern today.