Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Digital access : Advocating for learners, families and staff members to have equitable access to technology, digital resources and the internet. You can also assign the videos directly to Google Classroom. Google, The Net Safety Collaborative and the Internet Keep Safe Coalition collaborated on these comprehensive units.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Elementary OER 274

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I still remember the first time I held a voluntary workshop on Google Docs for a staff of 100 teachers. I called it “10 Ways to Use Google Docs in Your Classroom.” ” I immediately piped up: “You know, have you thought about using Google Docs? .” ” Five people showed up. ” “OH!

Technology 278

Technology OER Flipped Classroom Learning 278

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. It offers a large number of students access to study high-quality courses online through video streaming. Anyone can access these courses and there is no minimum qualification to take them. Open Education Resources (OER).

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

His work has shown him that “it will definitely be a more sustainable initiative if it is collaborative—-whether it's OER, open access journals, etc.if OERs are often undervalued compared to their paid counterparts, posited Blake Gore of Vanderbilt University and Tanya Spilovy thinks librarians can help.

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Libraries Digital Learning OER Learning 149

Hapara

APRIL 11, 2022

K-12 schools and districts turn to open educational resources (OER) for their flexibility. When you search for OER, you can find already-created lesson plans or other resources to add to your own class plans. Let’s look at the benefits of using an OER lesson plan and what it looks like. Why use an OER lesson plan?

OER 283

OER Differentiated Instruction Hapara Assessment 283

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites).

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A Google Custom Search Engine could be the answer. A Google Custom search (or CSE) allows you to guide searchers to the sites you want them to search or sites they most need to search. learners engaged in a first inquiry project on animals to the major zoo, aquarium and animal science resources at accessible reading levels.

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Google OER Resources Course 66

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

A quick search via Google shows that Stephen Downes is mentioned over 500 times on the pages of Iterating Toward Openness. Are they denied access? Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER.

OER 60

OER LMS Assessment Course 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

It’s why mobile access has been one of the most important means of connecting students to their academic resources. Access to connectivity is vital to a successful classroom BYOD policy, so these issues are largely taken care of by an institution. A cracked screen, however, is a burden shouldered entirely by students.

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 91

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. The process is so simple!

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Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. We need strategies for personalizing and enriching the remote learning experience. And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. Valenza, J.K. TechLearning. Valenza, J.K.

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Libraries OER Wiki Strategy 145

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Learning.com ‘s Curriculum Foundry, a solution for seamlessly accessing, organizing and sharing digital content, is now fully integrated with Google Drive and Google Apps for Education. Students can launch the content directly from Google Drive or Google Classroom.

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Google OER Chromebook Education 40

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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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ?

Technology Support 112

Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. Teachers in each department have been developing their own custom Google-based websites over the span of a year with help from high school teacher John Hineman, who is overseeing the project.

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iPad OER Meeting eBook 40

ProfHacker

AUGUST 15, 2017

By the way, my part is using the platforms that I have access to to promote this and other projects like it. Now, you can contribute using Google Docs. This, alongside Caulfield’s OER textbook Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers , can very readily be incorporated into many different classes in just about every discipline.

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OER Wiki Conference Strategy 60

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.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

”, you declare, “the overwhelming majority of OER in the world are licensed in ways that permit commercial use, so what’s the problem?” They provide free and open access to all their content online. Their platform for hosting, authoring, and remixing OER is open source and available via GitHub.

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OER Pearson Microsoft Education 60

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

THE BIG GUYS: Here’s news from Google, ABCMouse, and Amazon. First up, Google Education announced a new “casting” app for the classroom projector, released the “Expeditions” virtual reality app for all teachers and students, and added a new quizzing feature in Google Forms. Full EdSurge coverage on Google here.)

Microsoft 113

Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 113

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

In summary, their results suggested “no noticeable improvement” in standardized test scores (PISA) for reading, mathematics, or science in countries that heavily invested in classroom technology; thus, they do not believe expanding access to high-tech devices (1:1 Chromebook programs) will abate falling test scores. .

Technology 120

Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Amazon Education is working on a new platform that will allow schools to upload, manage, share, and discover open education resources from a home page that in some ways resembles the one shoppers are accustomed to accessing on the massive online retailer’s website.

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OER Resources Education Edmodo 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Illuminations – Illuminations works to serve you by increasing access to quality standards-based resources for teaching and learning mathematics, including interactive tools for students and instructional support for teachers. It is a free platform giving access to high-quality teaching resources. Another plus… it is free.

STEM 148

STEM Resources Learning OER 148

Hapara

MARCH 17, 2022

With just a few clicks, she shares the content with each student to quickly access it when they log in to their H?para This solution works on any device using a web browser, and each student can log in using their existing Google Workspace for Education account username and password. Accessing digital learning resources .

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OER Chromebook Hapara Accessibility 235

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

releases of the Linux kernel came from employees at Intel, IBM, Google, Facebook, Samsung, RedHat, and SUSE. And it’s not only “newer” companies like Google or Facebook. Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model. And a switch to OER would help publishers solve both of them.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2017

Whether learning is being supported through conversation, lecture, argument, video, adaptive courseware, plain old textbook, or Google Hangout, words are absolutely critical to supporting learning. conversation, lecture, argument, Google Hangout), or we can experience them afterward as a recorded artifact (e.g.,

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OER Accessibility Resources Tools 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 31, 2020

I’m going to write a post or three about some of the friction that exists around using OER. There are some things about working with OER that are just harder or more painful than they need to be, and getting more people actively involved in using OER will require us to reduce or eliminate those points of friction.

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OER LMS Software Course 103

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

This group is gonna change the info access/experience for kids! I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. And here is the sketchnote Margaret Sisler created during the session: #oer and teacher librarians!

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Social Media Libraries Conference OER 105

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Schools extend access to multiple web resources with a single sign-on system using one user ID and password. Passwords help protect individual and school data, but they can also be a frustrating obstacle to accessing tools for student learning, classroom management, and school administration,” said Robert Iskander, general manager.

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CMS OER Social Media Microsoft 40

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

A paper and pencil version of the SAT will continue to be available in order to make the test as accessible as possible to all students. Couldn't an immutable database with access privileges do the trick? So, why use a blockchain at all? state-level policies relating to open education. Tagged on: August 12, 2017.

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

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. Google Advanced Search. About: This portion of Google provides scaffolding important in conducting a proper search. Highlights: Accessible through tools after search, Provides critical thinking/inquiry.

Resources 60

Resources Tools Technology OER 60

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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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

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. Will the system provide access to evidence-based resources? Do vendors use CASE? The goal of digitization overall?

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

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. We are seeing movement way beyond hype.

Trends 42

Trends Libraries OER Microsoft 42

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes?

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 3, 2016

This post focuses on privacy, but the general lesson - that bad markup gets in the way of good content - holds true in both the OER and the privacy space. Google your privacy policy and terms of service. Sites where Google couldn't pick up the text of the policy and was only able to index the script that is supposed to load it.

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Policies OER Analysis Software 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

This means that you can write your own textbooks, share them, or use them as you would any other OER or open education resource. What is the Mathematical Association of America and what K12 resources can I access? These are accessible, findable online. And we’ll pull up Google; you know, anyone can help.

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Classroom OER Software System 223

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. It’s a valuable tool for accessing physical and digital academic resources. Related: Best Academic Search Engines 2.

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Education OER Libraries Accessibility 115