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17 things to know about K-12 OER textbooks

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Has your school district started to use open educational resources (OER) yet? Maybe educators in your district have collaborated on finding and curating openly-licensed nonfiction or fiction, videos, images, simulations or audio clips to add to lessons. But has your school district considered K-12 OER textbooks?

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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

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Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Let’s take a look at how to develop K-12 open educational resources. Types of OER you can develop for K-12.

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Seven advantages of using digital textbooks in schools

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You can personalize and differentiate instruction more easily. Your school or district can also use digital textbooks that are part of open educational resource (OER) repositories. There are several high-quality OER sites that feature digital textbooks for K-12. You can keep students from getting injured.

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Five digital citizenship activities everyone should know about

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Many kids are online every day, so it’s important for educators to help them stay safe and develop healthy boundaries with technology. Common Sense Education digital citizenship activities Common Sense Education offers interactive activities and lessons that span grade levels. Download the free e-book 3.

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What does an OER lesson plan look like?

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K-12 schools and districts turn to open educational resources (OER) for their flexibility. They are a cost-effective choice and make differentiating instruction and personalizing learning easier. When you search for OER, you can find already-created lesson plans or other resources to add to your own class plans.

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Google Apps and Chromebooks Web App Recommendations - a whole lot!

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srcid=0B6dF7rWxc-5aMGMyanRsMW5DbzQ&pid=explorer&efh=false&a=v&chrome=false&embedded=true Find Apps for Chromebook - great resource to find apps to use with Chromebooks [link] A great list of Apps and Extensions for Education https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xDrYNfAPlLY-2Y7kbL_ADBfVePYmREbNXXV_fyTh5LM/mobilebasic?pli=1

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Digital versus physical textbooks

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Let’s take a look at ways digital textbooks enhance K-12 education. You can find these digital textbooks on open educational resource (OER) sites. These are free for educators to use and are available across subjects and grade levels. . If they download a book to view offline, they can simply download the updated version.

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