Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

These specialized search platforms provide access to peer-reviewed articles, books, journals, and a plethora of other academic materials, essential for in-depth research and study across various disciplines. SAGE : Focusing on high-quality, peer-reviewed articles, SAGE Publications covers a wide range of disciplines, including education.

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Education OER Libraries Accessibility 115

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

GAFE – Google Apps For Education (include Google Docs, Google Sites etc). OER – Open Educational Resource (this can be any online materials that are free to use). SAMR – Subsitution, Augmentation, Modification, Reinvention ( click for my article ). ICT – Information Communications Technology.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

Thanks to Google Expeditions , Within , Aurasma , and many other tools, students can explore coral reefs , go to refugee camps , and watch art come to life. If you’re looking to bring these experiences to your students, there are infographics , articles , and books loaded with ideas and tutorials. Where we are: Since the U.S.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Past Series Articles. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. The point of emphasis for this article is item number three below. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites). Let’s take a look! Identify the standard. Reflect on the standard.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Article ( [link] ) – Read more about the Gold Standards from PBL Works. They include some tools, information, ideas, articles, and concepts. There are articles, videos, PBL Units, rubrics, designer documents, and many more. Edutopia : ( [link] ) – A large collection of PBL articles, resources, videos, and ideas.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Google Apps and Chromebooks App Recommendations and Substitutions Here is a list of Google Apps and Web Apps to use. 4c6x4p5qplh7 Google For Education Resources [link] Google Classroom - new resource for teachers to manage classes, assignments, student work, and to communicate with students.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

November 8, 2009 (21centuryedtech Article by Michael Gorman). One example used was Google’s idea to allow its employees 20% percent job time for self direction. From this effort, such big projects as G-Mail, and Google News have evolved. OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities.

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STEM Resources OER Conference 207

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

I have also included links to over 45 valuable resources (Towards the bottom of the article). Check out this wonderful magazine for some great K12 educational articles, I will be presenting at Alan November’s BLC in Boston in July. I have three pre-conference workshops that you may want to register for.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2019

[ Editor’s Note: This article was first published on the TCEA TechNotes blog.]. A simple Google Images search will reinforce that notion. But if you try a search in Google Images for curation, you’ll uncover entirely different results. Related: How to find, curate, and assess OER. What does that world call to mind?

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

But.truth is, the US government isn't the early adopter here; Amazon, Google and Facebook are really the front-line developers of the surveillance state." Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad. Without ethical practices, student data could be used to curtail academic success rather than help ensure it."

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The reason you’ve never heard anyone claim that tax status disqualifies companies from participating in or benefiting from open source is that Article 6 of the Open Source Definition – No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor – explicitly prohibits us from doing so. Seriously – stop and think about it for a moment.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Find standards-aligned content and assign practice exercises, videos and articles. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. You will also find articles aimed at older students. Each is a complete project that you may wish to include.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The recently published OER strategy document , as informative as it is, reads more like a list of issues and opportunities than what Michael Feldstein describes as “ rungs on a ladder of ambition.” This is a conversation we almost never have in the field of open education. What is our long-term goal?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 29, 2015

Past Series Articles. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Technology allows the 21 st century classroom to use this awareness of the nouns to connect with free resources on the internet known as OER (Open Education Resources). Identify the standard.

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Blended Learning Technology OER Digital Citizenship 60

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

The rise of technology was rapid, but teachers can gradually incorporate technology into lesson plans by using online news articles as a topic of discussion or showing videos to better illustrate a concept just learned in class. There are a wide variety of resources available including Youtube for Schools and Google for Education.

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

The move follows news earlier this year that Amazon Education is working on Inspire , a platform on which schools will be able to upload, manage, share, and discover such resources, known as OER. While some industry observers see OER as a challenger to the content and curriculum that schools pay for, others are more sanguine.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

By the way, this resource is excellent for any Google for Education school that uses the Chrome browser, not just Chromebooks! While I can’t actually fit 100 ideas into this blog post and podcast episode, I can offer you a FREE Google Chromebook resource that is loaded with ideas, lessons, apps, and more! Click To Tweet.

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Chromebook Khan Academy Classroom Google 78

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2015

OER Commons. About: One of the largest data bases of OER (Open Education Resources) for free classroom use. Highlights: Links to explanations of CC, Pictures, videos, articles, audios. Google Advanced Search. Google Advanced Search. Highlights: Lesson Builder, Searchable by standards and subject.

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Resources Tools Technology OER 60

Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. See the top of this article for why that matters. Edsurge covers OpenEd : “Beyond Free Materials: OER Advocates Push For Inclusiveness in Teaching Practices.” “ Does OER Actually Improve Learning? of Washington.”

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Education MOOC OER Company 55

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I wish to share with you this article I wrote for PBLWorks (BIE/BUCK Institute) of which I am part of the National Faculty. I hope pou find this first article helpful and that you return for continued postings in this series. Read the article or watch the webinar. Read the article or watch the webinar (future).

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

According to the HyperDocs site , HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. What Google App can I use to package this lesson? HyperDocs span Google Apps–Slides, Forms, Keep, Drive, etc.–and

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Handbook Google OER Adobe 49

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 16, 2016

Just for fun, look at Google’s definition of open. Be sure to click the down arrow at the bottom of the box to get all the juicy details – Google presents 15 major definitions of the term, none of which cover the specific context our current conversation imagines.). We don’t even think about it.”

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Resources Education OER Software 60

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

That’s already happening with tools like Google Classroom. Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. This edWebinar was sponsored by LearningMate. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. More on that in a subsequent article in this series.) 70+ million users’ account details.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. The twenty assessments include: Evaluating Wikipedia : Students evaluate the trustworthiness of an article on Wikipedia, assessing whether they can reason about the specific features that make a Wikipedia article more or less reliable.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). Google Spotlight Stories “G oogle Spotlight Stories means storytelling for VR. Google Translate app (now incorporate WordLens OCR optical character recognition to translate signs. Google Street View : Create your own 360 images. We are seeing movement way beyond hype.

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Trends Libraries OER Microsoft 42

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Google)’s biotech company, Calico. Because MOOCs have now largely pivoted to corporate training and because they continue to push for alternative credentialing (rather than simply for MOOCs for college credit ), I will – sadly – have to talk about MOOCs again in subsequent articles in this series.

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MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

*Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via The New York Times : “How Google Protected Andy Rubin , the ‘Father of Android ’ ” “Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out. National) Education Politics.

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Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Past… Beyond the Shine Series Articles. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. The teacher has worked hard at finding articles, reading lists, research links, and even You Tube videos on a various topics.

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Resources Technology Examples STEM 60

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Following on the heels of “ Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond ,” three more School of Open courses are now open for sign-up. It will also introduce Open Educational Resources (OER) and teach you how to find and adapt free, useful resources for your classes. These free courses are: 1. Copyright 4 Educators (AUS).

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.”

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.” ” Also from the Google blog : “More tools for homeschoolers.” National) Education Politics.

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Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Via ABC News : “ A defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine over the magazine’s debunked article about a University of Virginia gang rape was tossed out by a judge Tuesday. ” Rebrand.

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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? But these are just my opinions.

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