Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

Within my completely integrated classroom, a diverse group of learners had the beautiful opportunity to experience one another’s strengths and different ways of learning. Meaningful data points In some schools, summative assessments make up the bulk of data collected about a student.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

Keys to the OER shift: – Community buy-in: The community wasn’t satisfied with the achievement levels and graduation rates. Keys to the OER shift: – Community buy-in: The community wasn’t satisfied with the achievement levels and graduation rates. The post Navigating the Shift to OER appeared first on edWeb.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

New and traditional publishers are trying to offer alternatives such as open educational resources (OER), or freely downloadable and adaptable learning materials. But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned.

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

What is digital citizenship in the classroom? Incorporating digital citizenship into the classroom can also reduce issues such as online distractions and cyberbullying, while also helping learners evaluate internet sources and properly credit authors and content creators. You can also assign the videos directly to Google Classroom.

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 18, 2016

Using resources that require a specific piece of technology or can only be used in one particular way only serves to stifle an educator's ability to innovate in their classroom. We are in a place where Open Education Resources (ORE) are poised to transform classrooms. This short video does a great job of explaining why OER matters.

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 18, 2024

I get asked A LOT in trainings about AI detection tools and I am glad that we’re following the lead of universities in not recommending its use in the classroom. Within the time frame of one full day of training, I can get teachers to think about assessing prompts over products. Which is a start to the shift that is needed.

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Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducted a study on the correlation between test performance and technology usage in the classroom. Here are the six domains for success, each accompanied by a tip to aid you in applying each to your own classroom: 1. Digitally Mature Leaders .

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. Working across so many disparate texts, it would be nearly impossible for a teacher to create anything like this when using OER. Yet, the goal across BHP’s activities and assessment is consistency. Full size image here. Source: BHP.

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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. Contains formative learning and assessment opportunities.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

Welcome to post number three in a series devoted to formative learning (assessment). Part 3: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. OER Possibilities. You might even find some free already built lessons that might fit your classroom style. Lesson Creators for Formative Learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.

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Digital Promise

MAY 17, 2017

School leaders and teachers in every school and classroom in Mentor Public Schools – and we mean, every classroom – opened their doors to over 200 members and partners of the League of Innovative Schools. The League embraced this theme of open conversation throughout the meeting.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

First-year teachers have a lot to think about, especially at the beginning of the school year: decorating their classroom, planning lessons and learning units, trying out different classroom-management techniques, and -- most importantly -- getting to know their students. Classroom management. Google Classroom.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

E-learning automation helps to automatically create online content and assessments for a course. Open Education Resources (OER). The information can be used effectively and creatively by anyone to learn outside the traditional form of learning such as classrooms etc.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Specifically, it will help them prepare for and teach their courses through several phases—ideation, design, assessment, facilitation, reflection and research. BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks.

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Robotics OER Industry Education 133

The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 11, 2011

How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement tags: twitter favorite Cyberbullying: An International Perspective | DMLcentral tags: cyberbullying favorite Tony Vincent''s Learning in Hand - Project Based Learning tags: pbl projectbasedlearning mobilelearning mlearning favorite What Does "Technology Integration" Mean?

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. Openly licensed educational resources are free online learning materials that can be used for teaching, learning and assessing students’ knowledge. Teachers and students at one district are replacing print with digital.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. I fear it is OER wanting it both ways. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

In school hallways across the country, it’s not uncommon to see children sitting with adults who are there to assess their reading fluency and growth stopwatch in hand. In classrooms everywhere, children called on to read aloud. Submitted student recordings are available anytime as a running record for teacher assessment.

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Microsoft Education Assessment Data 77

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Go easy on the inspirational, aspirational statements; go deep on data to support the needs assessments and recommendations. Be explicit with districts about expectations for access to technology in schools and classrooms.

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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 ?

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

This conviction is born out of my 30 years in and around classrooms, first as a social studies teacher at Milpitas High, and then as co-founder of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI). I wish you wouldn’t pin all hope on OER or content marketplaces or playlists as curriculum solutions. TCI created the History Alive! It’s dispiriting.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2016

Annual survey reveals more and more districts are turning to OER and other digital learning resources. Sixty-two percent of districts in a recent survey have a digital content and curriculum strategy, and more than half of those strategies (38 percent) include using Open Educational Resources (OER).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Classroom 2.0 ? Open Source and OER ? Testing and Assessment ? Alternative Education ? Balancing Home and School ? Blended Learning ? Brain-based Learning ? College Admissions ? Connections ? Creativity ? Defining Success ? Digital Citizenship ? Educational Technology ? Elementary Years ? Engagement ? Family & Parenting ?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

For Kiddom, the deal marks a big step in its effort to create a one-stop shop for all of the instructional tools used in K-12 classrooms and “help bridge the gap that currently exists between curriculum, instruction, assessment and intervention,” says its chief academic officer Abbas Manjee. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5

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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. “ Curation.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For some folks in higher ed, the very idea of using open educational resources (OER) sparks dread. The right OER provides professors opportunities to teach the latest research and even make areas like math and science more inclusive. EdSurge: Why are you such a proponent of OER in higher ed? Here’s how I look at it.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2018

But with the rise of OER, growing use of supplemental resources over core textbooks, and the increasing flexibility of state funding, more purchasing decisions have moved to the school and district level. They support sound pedagogy and balanced assessment to help teachers understand and interpret student performance.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

National Science Foundation – Check out this diverse collection of lessons and web resources for classroom teachers. Continue to explore all of the simulations, formative assessments, and lessons. This is an area that may just help you flip your STEM classroom. Perhaps your students could be the next contributor.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

The move follows news earlier this year that Amazon Education is working on Inspire , a platform on which schools will be able to upload, manage, share, and discover such resources, known as OER. While some industry observers see OER as a challenger to the content and curriculum that schools pay for, others are more sanguine.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

It includes assessment to inform personalization of instruction and is equipped for adoption across a range of institutional types and learning environments.”. The most structured option is offered directly from a vendor platform; it includes all course content and assessments. Shifting the Conversation from Spending to Investing.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

The posts generate ideas on how these concepts just might fit in the classroom and/or provide some driving/guiding questions. While it was created to allow for family interaction, it is also figures into the Math PBL classroom. This blog really does attempt to use all of the preceding ideas, plus more!

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

It will put rich content — teacher-curated and classroom-vetted collections – on our powerful, personalized learning platform into the hands of educators around the globe,” said Arne Bergby, CEO of itslearning. We formed this partnership in order to satisfy all educators’ requirements.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Welcome to this third post in a series devoted to supporting student centered learning in the technology enhanced classroom. In this post I wish share 10 more tools and resources to help build that student centered classroom. OER Commons. About: A wonderful kid centered blogging community that allows for a walled classroom.

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