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Want to Help Schools Closed by COVID-19? Don’t Pitch Them Right Now.

Edsurge

Often, these pitches entail free or discounted software for products ranging from instructional materials to virtual conferencing tools. Since a main part of her role is to assess technology products for use in her school, Roshan said she’s used to quickly filtering out the pitches she’s not interested in.

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Granularity

K12 Open Ed

The reasons for this are many — ranging from the culture of some schools that holds instructional materials as sacrosanct to the lack of time and/or expertise to do this work. However, I think another key element is the very nature of instructional materials.

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Competency-Based Learning Puts Students at the Center. It’s Perfect for Now.

Edsurge

The transition to nontraditional instruction required educators to consider not only students’ access to technology and instructional materials, but of adequate food and necessities often provided by schools. Just as school terms were ending in the U.S.,

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Guide to Quality Instructional Resources Focuses on the Process, not the Purchase

edWeb.net

Questioning the quality of instructional materials isn’t new to the digital education era. Thus, there is the potential for more disparity in the quality of materials from school to school. They support sound pedagogy and balanced assessment to help teachers understand and interpret student performance.

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Want to Boost Reading Scores? Build Silent Reading Stamina.

Edsurge

Her desire to incentivize and reward students for their reading diligence was born out of a deep concern for some alarming English Language Arts (ELA) numbers: In 2018, when she became the principal, the lowest-performing 25% of her 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders reached only 46% of their expected yearly growth based on statewide assessments. “I

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Let Learners Get in Their Zone (of Proximal Development)

Edsurge

If we’re okay with that soft definition, it will harm students,” he says. Reyes recognizes that personalized learning overlaps with a number of long established instructional philosophies, frameworks and practices. Technology can enable teachers to individualize instruction, or meet students in their ZPD, more efficiently.

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How to sort the good from the bad in OER

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Using OER wasn’t our goal,” Kockler said.

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