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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

Hapara

Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. Types of OER you can develop for K-12. Why you should develop OER for K-12.

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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

ICT – Information Communications Technology. OER – Open Educational Resource (this can be any online materials that are free to use). Windows, Android). SIS – Student Information System (the software used in a school to manage data such as scores, attendance, medical issues etc.). OS – Operation system (e.g.

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How to Boost Classroom Engagement With the Tech Tool That 'Always Works'

Edsurge

One of the great things with Vivi is that it works with laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, Android tablets. As a teacher, I easily could have wandered around the classroom with my iPad, done my instruction, provided examples, and quickly shared information.

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Google Apps and Chromebooks Web App Recommendations - a whole lot!

Educational Technology Guy

10 Free Learning Websites for Kids 51 Great Tools for educators and students to use [link] Richland School District Two 1TWO1 Digital Starter Kit [link] Excellent collection of web apps, sorted by category, with lots of information and ideas for using the web apps in class. Real ti me feedback from students for formative assessment.

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

NeverEndingSearch

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). Take them with your phone, android or tablet. Scenes and people are described along with information like relative location and distance. Coming in the next post: OER, OA and openness. The first of my shares was on AR/VR/MR with a sprinkling of AI. Herold, Benjamin.

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Looking backward and forward

Kathy Schrock

Discovery VR , Google Expeditions ( iOS | Android ), and ThingLink VR are some of the large-scale projects in this area specifically targeted for education. In my Kathy’s Katch April column , I covered how and why educators might want to use virtual reality in the classroom. But these are just my opinions.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak. For more information.