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Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later

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license from the original post on his blog. Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks.

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ISTE Librarians’ Takeaways (Crowdsourced)

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For instance, Kasey Bell generously shared her own resource-packed presentations on her Shake Up Learning Blog prior to the conference. Our own Kristina Holzweiss shared the Wakelet on Wakelet she co-presented, as well as her blog post on library uses of the platform. This group is gonna change the info access/experience for kids!

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.”

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Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI

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Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). In terms of young people, immersive realities have the potential to address the characteristics of i nteractivity, connectivity, access identified in Eliza Dresang’s Radical Change Theory as critical in enhancing agency among digital youth. Website/blog: [link]. Dresang, E.

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Using Makerspaces to Support Personalized Learning

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They had a bee robot that they learned to program to better understand bee behaviors. Grace believes it is the teacher’s job is to inspire them, educate them, give them access and help them use technology safely. For instance, students didn’t just research information about bees online. Supporting school activities: St. About the Host.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site. Subscribe to their blog. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) They’re amazing. . I mean, one of its founders celebrated.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “The governor of Virginia has approved a bill requiring all public higher education institutions in the state to take steps to adopt open educational resources – freely accessible and openly copyrighted educational materials.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.