Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. What then of the students?

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. What then of the students?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

Inspiring Math Excellence in the Classroom with Po-Shen Loh. This means that you can write your own textbooks, share them, or use them as you would any other OER or open education resource. Below is a transcript modified for your reading pleasure. Transcript for Episode 114 . Download the transcript. Recording starts 0:00:00].

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates. To me, using OER felt like a no-brainer. Many working in open education praised me for being so involved in the movement as an educator dealing with OER on the ground.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Learners love to meet learners in other classrooms, but how can you make it simple ? I like to connect my students with experts and other classrooms. Here I am connecting with educators from my classroom half a world away. These are OER and ready for you to use.). How to Set up a Live Event with Another Classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. Working across so many disparate texts, it would be nearly impossible for a teacher to create anything like this when using OER. The 2016-17 assessment results show strong growth over the year among high school students. Source: BHP.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Be explicit with districts about expectations for access to technology in schools and classrooms. It should not be controversial in 2016 that there is a baseline expectation of access to technology in schools, just as there are baseline expectations for access to textbooks and desks. Encouraging a shift to digital textbooks?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

My dear friend and former Flat Classroom administrator Lisa Durff is also involved.). This project is based upon the work I’ve done previously on projects like the Flat Classroom Project, Horizon Project, NetGenEd, Digiteen, Digitween, Eracism, a Week in the Life, Physics of the Future, Gamifi-ED and now MAD about Mattering!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

For Kiddom, the deal marks a big step in its effort to create a one-stop shop for all of the instructional tools used in K-12 classrooms and “help bridge the gap that currently exists between curriculum, instruction, assessment and intervention,” says its chief academic officer Abbas Manjee. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 28, 2017

Offering a familiar, filtered Amazon search/shopping interface, Inspire allows educators to discover, download, curate and share Open Educational Resources (OER). I am also excited about exploring new resource discoveries with classroom teachers and observing the ranking and evaluation system develop as the community grows.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. This connectivity issue, coined “The Homework Gap” by the FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel, means that many of the children sitting in our classrooms lose access – and therefore opportunity – the moment they leave our schools.

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EdTech Future Ready Social Media Broadband 189

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

In reality, every district we know approaches open educational resources with a single goal: to accelerate student learning by bringing the highest-quality instructional materials into classrooms. Indeed, teachers initially took the lead in bringing these resources into classrooms. Matthew Miller is the Supt.

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Resources Instructional Materials OER Elementary 90

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Mountain Heights Academy in Utah, the 2017 Student Voices Award winner, encourages students to participate in the instructional design process using an OER curriculum. Although they aren’t in the classroom together, the students stay connected on their project leveraging tools like G Suite for Education or Blackboard Collaborate.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Conferences, like classrooms, are no longer closed spaces.).

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad. 14 May 2016 .

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Autodesk provided more than 335,000 students and educators from secondary schools with professional software and services for use in classrooms, labs, and at home. We've already connected more than 20 million students to high-speed internet in the classroom.". In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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Adobe Broadband E-rate Future Ready 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Welcome to this third post in a series devoted to supporting student centered learning in the technology enhanced classroom. In this post I wish share 10 more tools and resources to help build that student centered classroom. I am almost booked through January and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. OER Commons.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. OER Possibilities. This capability provides teachers the ability to use a multitude of OER (Open Education Resources) and web applications that are bountiful on the internet. Student Centered Classroom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

That official Facebook page for Amazon Education hasn’t been updated since June 30, 2016. After all, she adds, someone going to get classroom materials might not want want the platform to suggest buying non-educational items, like groceries, after downloading a resource.

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Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2016

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in December 2016 and is re-posted here with permission. __ What was hot in educational technology in 2016 and what are some cool new things that are on the horizon for 2017?

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Chromebook Android Trends OER 40

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

2016 Institutional Awards. For boosting student retention and success and reducing costs by embracing online OER textbooks Northern Arizona University. 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards. The competition is open to schools that award associate or bachelor’s degrees and to programs within those schools. Apply here. Bay Path University.

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Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 79

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

As I prepare for ISTE 2016 I can’t help but think about the amazing thoughts and ideas that John Dewey has brought to education. This partial list of sources introduces the scope of OER and the organizations cultivating its increasingly vital role in opening higher education up to the greatest number of people worldwide.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

The second of our three free Library 2.016 online mini-conferences: " Library as Classroom ," is this Wednesday, June 15th! Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 12:00 pm (PDT): Opening Keynote Panel: Defining the Library as Classroom Michael Stephens, Michael Casey, Brian Kenney, Joyce Valenza, and Jessamyn West.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Welcome to this first in a series of posts devoted to student centered learning in the technology enhanced classroom. This classroom might be 1 to 1, or might be using technology to leverage student centered learning. The next posts will include 16 sweet tools that are a must for that student centered classroom.

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Technology Flipped Classroom Learning STEM 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 14, 2016

Welcome to this fourth post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. There are some powerful lessons that bring the arts into the classroom.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 28, 2016

Welcome to a post that I feel is a must read when it comes to instructional technology in the classroom of the 21st century! I am now almost booked through the start of August, and the second half of the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. It was 1980 something and computers had finally entered the classroom. What comes next?

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Meeting Technology Education STEM 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Classroom 2.0 ? Open Source and OER ? Steve Steve Hargadon steve@learningrevolution.com [link] @stevehargadon CURRENT SESSION LIST: Abigail Ekangouo Awanga : Emoji grading a fascinating effect on low proficiency learners AERO : Yong Zhao Keynote at the 2016 AERO Conference AERO : Peter Gray: Self Directed Education. Creativity

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Also via NPR : “From YouTube Pioneer Sal Khan , A School With Real Classrooms.” .” Me, I cannot stop looking at that hand-clapping Vine. ” Rebrand. Updates from ISTE. “ Commerce Dept.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. The Flipped Classroom".

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 29, 2016

April 29, 2016. In the largest classrooms in our schools, we work with teachers to develop both traditional and emerging literacies. With our classroom teacher partners, we build instruction; we build projects and assessments that focus on creativity and knowledge building using the information tools and strategies of our time.

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Libraries OER Wiki BYOD 40

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

During this 60 minute session, AdmitHub CEO Andrew Magliozzi will reveal insights from his company’s 2016 trial with Georgia State University, where a chatbot exchanged 185,000 messages with more than 3,100 students. This panel asks how this technology might expand the walls of the classroom—or isolate students from the learning environment.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2016

Global Leadership Week (GLW) is a week-long celebration of leadership through global action in K-20 education, taking place April 25 - 29, 2016, and organized by the Global Education Conference (GEC) Network. GLW is an opportunity for global education leaders (and those who want to be!) Also, feel free to add yourself to the participant map.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. That was certainly the case in our experience. NAACP Letters.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Educator Innovator

MAY 3, 2018

In the Introduction, Zemelman takes us into the classroom of Elizabeth Robbins, a high school history teacher in Chicago, to see what supporting civic action in the classroom looks like on the ground. Join the Annotated Conversation.

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Learning Meeting Study Course 47

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” Via The AP : “Police in Vermont say a 15-year-old student was cited after approaching a classroom wearing a clown mask and banging on the windows as clown sightings are viewed as potential public safety threats throughout the country.” — Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 3, 2016. Education Politics.

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via the Hechinger Report : “On a classroom-based test for new teachers , black teachers score lower.” Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.” Inside Higher Ed on the results of the 2016 Campus Computing Survey."

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