Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

OER was one of six “emerging technologies and practices” the panelists highlighted as most likely to significantly influence postsecondary teaching and learning in the future. “It It is moving up the adoption ladder,” says Susan Grajek, vice president of communities and research for Educause, of OER. “It In the U.S.,

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OER Resources Education Report 187

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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OER Instructional Materials Policies Broadband 41

Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Check out the following websites to find textbooks for your school, district or classroom. OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). Some shelves are geared specifically to K-12, such as K-12 mathematics or Wikijunior , which has nonfiction books for readers up to age 12. .

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OER E-rate Hapara Libraries 130

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

After all, textbooks are a must in classrooms. Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. A smart move indeed.

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Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

I took some time to look over my past posts and decided I needed to provide Social Studies Teachers with some great resources for their classroom. Rather than get into any one specific Social Studies area, I thought best to find some resources that might work in just about any Social Studies Classroom. I have done 100?s

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Study Classroom OER Education 166

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

Wrangling technology can be maddening even in optimally designed classrooms. The Vivi solution River Grove installed last spring “has made a huge difference in those classrooms,” says Allen. Stop by Booth 547 to learn how Vivi turns wireless screen mirroring into a powerful educational tool for the 21st-century classroom.

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Tools How To Classroom OER 120

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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Digital Citizenship Social Media Elementary OER 274

K12 Open Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

I have written before about the connections between OER and open practice and why I think open practice should be the goal, not merely the adoption of OER. While I hope and believe that OER can pave the way for open practice, it is not at all obvious that the use of OER is a necessary condition. The answer is scale.

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OER Resources Classroom Education 113

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Past Series Articles.

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Each mission in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom , shares an example of the Mission in Action by a teacher I admire. André is a #DigitalLeadLearner, using web media and iPads in the classroom, an OER maker and a founder of the German Twitter chat, #EDchatDE.

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OER iPad Twitter Digital Learning 173

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

Inspiring Math Excellence in the Classroom with Po-Shen Loh. The answer I give is maybe a little bit disappointing for people who are looking for a recipe of, just do this problem or just do these problems or just read this book. Below is a transcript modified for your reading pleasure. Transcript for Episode 114 .

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Classroom OER Software System 222

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

One of the biggest proponents of the power of Wikipedia in the classroom is Robert Cummings, associate professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi. He even wrote a book about the topic, called “ Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia.” I tend to focus on aspects of OER depending on the audience.

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OER Education E-rate Social Media 112

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

There are many changes I intend to make, but the most significant will be creating a book that is more “evergreen,” a book with less focus on tools and more on the dispositions of digital leaders. Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book.

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OER Personal Learning Network Outcomes Blended Learning 241

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Learners love to meet learners in other classrooms, but how can you make it simple ? I like to connect my students with experts and other classrooms. Here I am connecting with educators from my classroom half a world away. These are OER and ready for you to use.). How to Set up a Live Event with Another Classroom.

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Meeting How To OER Google 150

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Also remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. Check out my Booking Page and as always… thanks so much! Open Education Resources – Talk about big, this network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum. Quick Notes.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. We need strategies for personalizing and enriching the remote learning experience. And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. by EZ EdTech! Valenza, J.K.

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Libraries OER Wiki Strategy 145

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. Next page: How this model works with flipping the classroom and lesson creation. Teachers and students at one district are replacing print with digital. By and large, it’s working. image via AP ].

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iPad OER Meeting eBook 40

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 6, 2017

Collections can help reduce instructional planning and research time, maximizes visibility and usage of your educational resources, and encourages deeper learning in and outside the classroom. You can search for Open Educational Resources (OER) within Destiny Discover and immediately add them to your collections.

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OER Social Media Software Resources 40

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Maintaining engagement becomes simultaneously more crucial and difficult as classrooms try to keep up with today’s fast-paced world. Gamification —borrowing the motivating principles from games and applying them to a non-game setting—can rewire and bolster social dynamics in the classroom when properly implemented.

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Video Learning OER Gamification 125

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Student: I’ll study whether students learn better with OER than with traditional course materials! At this point I would pull a random book down from my shelf and open to the copyright statement near the front of the book. Student: (questioningly) Because you didn’t change the instructional design of the book in any way?

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OER Comparison Study Course 116

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? And they weren't great books anyway.

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OER STEM Course Libraries 158

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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EdTech OER Industry Study 100

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. National Science Foundation – Check out this diverse collection of lessons and web resources for classroom teachers. CK12 – Starting with their amazing free digital books is really just a start.

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STEM Resources Learning Conference 162

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.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. The posts generate ideas on how these concepts just might fit in the classroom and/or provide some driving/guiding questions. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. My calendar is filling.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Past Series Articles.

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Blendspace Resources OER Technology 60

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. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page.

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Resources Tools Technology OER 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 29, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Past Series Articles.

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Blended Learning Technology OER Digital Citizenship 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. OER Possibilities. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Control… Or No.

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Assessment Tools LMS OER 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The Global Medieval Sourcebook at Stanford University is bringing an expansive, OER mentality to the medieval canon, making reliable texts available for classroom use. The library holds about 124 million items, including 125,000 telephone books, she said. It has the largest collections of recorded sound and maps in the world.

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Libraries OER Case Study Robotics 127

The Daring Librarian

MARCH 19, 2020

So here's some MackinVia FREE books. Books Beyond Borders & Wazzup Wattpad? The last day before we left for this unexpected early spring break, I checked out a LOT OF BOOKS! The last day before we left for this unexpected early spring break, I checked out a LOT OF BOOKS! Did I check out enough books?

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eBook OER Libraries Resources 46

eSchool News

JULY 15, 2016

They all help classroom teachers and education leaders leverage education technology in the best ways possible. OER meets iPads in this district. For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. Top BYOD tools for the Common Core classroom.

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Common Core OER Gamification BYOD 40

MindShift

JULY 11, 2016

Instead, he creates his own curriculum, in collaboration with the other eighth-grade social studies teacher at his school, out of materials he has found on the internet and adapted to the needs of his classroom. I can’t think of many things I do in the classroom that I can solely say I created or that I thought of,” Langhorst said.

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Resources OER Classroom Study 28

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

See booking info and please contact me anytime at (mjgormans@gmail.com). Of course, there is still Flipped Learning, 1 to 1 Programs, Blended Learning, Maker Movements, Genious Hours, SAMR, Learning Targets, 21st Century Learning, the 4C’s, Personalised Learning, Digital Textbooks, and OER! Check out my Booking Page.

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Resources OER Learning STEM 105

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 23, 2020

I wanted to include a reading summarizing my current thinking on ‘evaluating the impact of OER’ in the course, so I’m letting some thoughts spill out below. In the past I’ve written frequently about how we evaluate the impact of OER use. and more OER impact research should follow that lead. versus 2.6).

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OER Education Course Learning Analytics 164

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2019

I hope you’re aware of and looking forward to her upcoming book on Teaching Machines.) Citations below are from this book. Goclenius thus tacitly acknowledges the messiness and incoherence of his own book, no doubt produced in haste from his teaching notes.

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OER System Exercises Course 93

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Check out my Booking Page . These important attributes of a PBL classroom need to be intentionally thought out as part of the online experience. Check out my Booking Page .

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192