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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

OER – Open Educational Resource (this can be any online materials that are free to use). Windows, Android). MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). NGDLE – Next-generation Digital Learning Environment.

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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. Do you ever imagine how your practice might have been different had you had this tool? 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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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. Coming in the next post: OER, OA and openness. Here’s the definitive answer in the form of a tweet from Springshare itself : Now, back to the session. The first of my shares was on AR/VR/MR with a sprinkling of AI.

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

Educational Technology Guy

key=0Ap3z-8ofmQ4FdExMYVgwU2hDaGZzMXlJWFJWT28xU1E#gid=0 Typing/Keyboarding typingweb.com – this site offers straightforward tutorials and typing practice games.

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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. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.