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

Edsurge

Stop by Booth 547 to learn how Vivi turns wireless screen mirroring into a powerful educational tool for the 21st-century classroom. Do you ever imagine how your practice might have been different had you had this tool? One of the great things with Vivi is that it works with laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, Android tablets.

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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

CMS – Content Management System (a tool to build websites and apps). OER – Open Educational Resource (this can be any online materials that are free to use). Windows, Android). BYOL – Bring Your Own Learning. BYOT – Bring Your Own Technology. CIPA – Children’s Internet Protection Act. DOK – Depth Of Knowledge.

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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. You can also share your clipboards via different social networks.

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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.). It’s hard to imagine not fully realizing the potential for our mobile devices as learning tools. building AR/VR: students can their own 360-degree, interactive, immersive stories with augmented and virtual reality creation tools. Take them with your phone, android or tablet.

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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.

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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. Thanks to the developers who create online tools, many of these powerful tools now work with the Chromebook. But these are just my opinions.