A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book. Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools.

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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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EdTech OER Industry Study 103

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’”

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Knewton Company OER Pearson 131

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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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

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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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Maintaining engagement becomes simultaneously more crucial and difficult as classrooms try to keep up with today’s fast-paced world. You may gasp, but gaming is a multi-billion-dollar industry for a reason. Attend our ISTE 2018 session to learn about gamifying Google Classroom. Games fulfill different core psychological needs.

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Video Learning OER Gamification 130

Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

This connectivity issue, coined “The Homework Gap” by the FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel, means that many of the children sitting in our classrooms lose access – and therefore opportunity – the moment they leave our schools. As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow.

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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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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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Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

The Software and Information Industry Association, in a recent online post , said the campaign—which encourages states and districts to consider open options—wrongly suggests that open resources are invariably linked with districts’ shifts to adopting digital materials, whereas commercial materials are stuck in the print world. .”

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

That’s already happening with tools like Google Classroom. Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license. Dan believes the education industry is poised to merge educators’ passion for teaching and learning with data that maximize their effectiveness.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry. Performance Assessment in the Virtual Classroom. TESS101x: Enhancing Teacher Education Through OER. Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom. Locating, Creating, Licensing and Utilizing OERs. Go To Class | Next Session : 4th May, 2015.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Now in its seventh year, the annual gathering brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts from around the world for four days stacked with panel discussions , workshops , an expo hall , meetups , film screenings —plus plenty of after-hours shindigs. But will VR and AR live up to its hype? Higher Ed 9:30 a.m.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

Recent publications and projects include Navigating the Digital Shift, Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States, OER Case Studies: Implementation in Action, The Broadband Imperative and From Data to Information. Kajeet , the industry leader for safe, managed mobile solutions, powers the K-12 connected environment.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” “ OER , CARE , Stewardship, and the Commons” by “Econproph” Jim Luke. Government Will Travel to Latin America.”

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. Now what will YOU do?

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. Now what will YOU do?

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

and BS in Industrial Engineering/Human Computer Interaction from University of Alabama and North Carolina A+T State University, respectively. Bryant is an active member of Educause, and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC); she also served as an Exemplary Course Program reviewer for Blackboard, Inc. She has a Ph.D.

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Libraries Conference Online Learning OER 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Subscribe to their blog.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

My dear friend and former Flat Classroom administrator Lisa Durff is also involved.). This project is based upon the work I’ve done previously on projects like the Flat Classroom Project, Horizon Project, NetGenEd, Digiteen, Digitween, Eracism, a Week in the Life, Physics of the Future, Gamifi-ED and now MAD about Mattering!

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In addition, the number of schools and districts using OER continues to rise. A key driver in those purchasing decisions can come from classroom data, said Mickey, as teachers provide information to show them what materials the students need. This includes teachers sharing lessons with each other within and outside of their districts.

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Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Industry 40

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 25, 2018

Third, during discussion throughout the day the audience surfaced more ideas and issues: Live streaming classes in 360, pros and cons (make classrooms more present, but tech challenges). Tentative interest in where the porn industry is going. rsrc for Capstone OER e-book produced by student on AR/VR + Marketing [link].

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 25, 2018

Third, during discussion throughout the day the audience surfaced more ideas and issues: Live streaming classes in 360, pros and cons (make classrooms more present, but tech challenges). Tentative interest in where the porn industry is going. rsrc for Capstone OER e-book produced by student on AR/VR + Marketing [link].

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OER Analysis Education Data 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Christine Trimnell Deep Learning - A Global Perspective - Tom D'Amico Designing for All: Lessons from a Global Network of Maker Classrooms - Lisa Jobson, Jonelle Lorantas, Mahfuza Rahman, Elyse Gainor Developing Global Competencies in Teacher Education through Transdisciplinary and Translational Research - Melda N.

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Conference Education Case Study Mobility 4

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

In an interview with EdSurge at the conference, General Assembly CEO Jake Schwartz said he was excited to continue to lead the operation, which will retain the brand and operate as a division of Adecco, and gain better connection to industry partners through the new parent company. But its education officials are looking for outside help.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

Luminaries in the edtech industry, including Richard Culatta (ISTE CEO and former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here. Department of Education) and David Wiley (the.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

” She was, apparently, at Koch Industries. Edsurge covers OpenEd : “Beyond Free Materials: OER Advocates Push For Inclusiveness in Teaching Practices.” “ Does OER Actually Improve Learning? Good thing no school would be stupid enough to put one of these devices in a classroom or dorm.

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Education MOOC Company OER 55

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Ref Rodriguez, like most of the current members of the LAUSD school board, has strong financial backing from the charter school industry. ” Via David Perry : “A professor of Atmospheric Sciences stepped down (he was 70) at the University of Illinois rather than appropriately address accommodations in his classroom.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Marquette University was justified in disciplining a professor who had publicly rebuked a graduate teaching assistant over her handling of classroom discussions of homosexuality, a state judge ruled on Thursday.” ” The attack was at Transylvania University.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Also via NPR : “From YouTube Pioneer Sal Khan , A School With Real Classrooms.” .” Me, I cannot stop looking at that hand-clapping Vine. ” Rebrand. Uses ISTE to Tout Opportunities for U.S.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom. A report via Google Research : “ Unconscious Bias in the Classroom.” million in funding.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

” More on VR from Edsurge : “The 10 Best VR Apps for Classrooms Using Merge VR’s New Merge Cube.” Lisa Petrides, Douglas Levin, and Eddie Watson introduce The CARE Framework for OER. ” Enjoy those Alexa in the classroom! Via Edsurge : “ VR Could Bring a New Era of Immersive Learning.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

” There’s more on Department of Education efforts to help the for-profit higher ed industry in the for-profit higher ed section below. Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” It’s boom times for the “regret industry.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

.” From the story: “Online education company Udacity plans to branch out of its core technology market to meet growing demand for digitally-skilled workers in areas such as banking and the car industry, its co-founder told Reuters as the company launched in Germany.” ” asks Education Dive.

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Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

More on the Republicans’ tax plans – Via Education Week : “New Senate Tax Plan Doubles Teachers’ Deduction for Buying Classroom Supplies.” And there’s more on regulating the industry (or ya know, not) in the national politics section above. ” This is terrible and will hurt poor people.

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