Education Elements

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The most successful school leaders we work with understand that high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) improve student engagement and are a key resource in addressing schooling loss.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

. – I want to focus instead on one aspect of how we are shifting from print to digital: the procurement decision schools make about whether to license digital instructional materials or purchase them outright, because I think ownership of instructional materials matters.**. Image credits. Image credits.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 5, 2023

In graduate school I was endlessly fascinated with Gordon Pask’s conversation theory , which seems to have broad implications for the design of this new kind of instructional material. And for those of you who expect every post on this blog to be related to OER in some way (you did notice I changed the name of the blog, right?),

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edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

During a tour of updates to SETDA’s Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States (DMAPS) , which showcases state policies in support of digital materials, Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director for SETDA, discussed new features like professional development information.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

In a recent edWebinar , presenters from Idaho and Pennsylvania discussed how state and district leadership support digital learning opportunities and implement digital materials. According to the Brookings Institution there is strong evidence that the choice of instructional materials has large effects on student learning.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 12, 2019

Director of Professional Learning for ORIGO Education, underscored that we, as educators, need to help students engage in math by seeing math as something vital to them. “One of the challenges of teaching math, particular in the United States is that school math seems to come from a different universe than life math.”

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Blog post by Stacey Pusey based on this edWebinar. In recent years, schools have recognized the need to attend to students’ social-emotional needs as well their academic ones. Scholastic Magazines+ are the simple solution to student engagement in PreK-12 learning.

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