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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

Edsurge

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). Yet many teachers still ask: “Why can’t I find the open educational resources I’m looking for?” From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S.

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Behind Closed Doors: Edtech Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Challenges in 2018

Edsurge

Earlier this month in New York City, the AT&T Aspire Accelerator, AT&T’s program that finds, develops, and invests in promising edtech companies from around the world, hosted an afternoon of mock board meetings with its 2018 cohort. The same principle applies to edtech companies. To date AT&T has made 27 investments.

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Why Efforts to Improve Teacher Productivity and Efficiency May Not Pay Off

Edsurge

Investments in teacher training programs when new state standards or social-emotional learning programs are rolled out are recent examples where statewide decisions shape local choices. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

One of the great promises of the increased adoption and use of technology in public education is the availability of new tools to collect and analyze data about how best to meet the individual needs of students, support educators, and allocate scarce resources. There simply is no room for instructional black boxes in public education.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

Edsurge

In the interest of helping other companies and school districts enable extraordinary teaching and learning at scale, we’ve highlighted the three main findings—and some solutions—that have come from these conversations: 1. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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Digitizing Curriculum Development: Think Efficiency

edWeb.net

While virtual resources abound, the systems are not coordinated enough to fully address teachers’ curriculum-design needs and to support them as they help students build a coherent body of knowledge. But, it’s all over the place,” he laments, “with the various textbooks, standards, digital search engines, and vendors.”.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

And career preparation here isn’t just a buzzword but more like a guiding principle: When the end-of-day bell sounds, some children transition from students to employees of the district, and earn $10 an hour for working on a variety of projects for local technology companies. District leaders are hungry for these sorts of examples.”.

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