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The Fans, Fanboys, and Fanatics of OER

Doug Levin

Of course, money is hugely important for K-12 education and a key benefit to adopting OER. Wouldn’t that serve the dual purpose of offering (what seems to me to be) an incredibly powerful professional learning opportunity, while also improving the quality of instructional materials? K-12 context.

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State and District Leadership Discuss Digital Learning Opportunities

edWeb.net

According to the Brookings Institution there is strong evidence that the choice of instructional materials has large effects on student learning. Of course, schools can’t make the switch to digital overnight. In addition, she manages many of SETDA’s research and product development projects from conception to publication.

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Why #techquity

Educator Innovator

At an EdCamp, unconference-like event early this year in my school district, teachers expressed interest in having a conversation about equity of access. They wrote their questions about equity on half sheets of paper and taped them to a brick wall in the high school cafeteria where we planned our professional learning.

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Future Ready update adds new resources and PD for leaders

eSchool News

One of the major new commitments from the Office of Educational Technology for Future Ready moving into 2016 will be a set of professional learning resources to help district superintendents and their principals and teachers most effectively transition to digital learning. “United in purpose and mission, we can do anything.”.

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Future Ready update adds new resources and PD for leaders

eSchool News

One of the major new commitments from the Office of Educational Technology for Future Ready moving into 2016 will be a set of professional learning resources to help district superintendents and their principals and teachers most effectively transition to digital learning. “United in purpose and mission, we can do anything.”.