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Digital versus physical textbooks

Hapara

Instead of purchasing physical textbooks, schools and districts can use open-source digital textbooks. You can find these digital textbooks on open educational resource (OER) sites. Let’s take a look at their arguments and ways that school districts can use digital textbooks to meet learners’ needs.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

As a member of Alan’s Team all year, it is a lot of fun to meet so many people from around the world at his summer conference in Boston. 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. Please enjoy and share with others.

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Here’s how districts stand out from the crowd

eSchool News

The digital-first district where OER meets iPads. Teachers and students at one district are replacing print with digital. are stepping up digital citizenship and vigilance to combat social media bullying. By and large, it’s working. North Dakota schools step up response to cyberbullying. Schools in N.D.

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Part 3… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Verbs and Blended Learning Possiblities

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Technology allows the 21 st century classroom to use this awareness of the nouns to connect with free resources on the internet known as OER (Open Education Resources). Incorporate Digital Citizenship.

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On building learning playlists

NeverEndingSearch

The teacher or librarian can easily customize and adjust playlists to meet each student’s strengths and needs and pace. For one meeting of our Gay/Straight Alliance, students were interested in exploring how gay people were represented on television. Meet the Cs (AASL Concurrent session on curation and collaboration).

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ISTE Librarians’ Takeaways (Crowdsourced)

NeverEndingSearch

I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. And here is the sketchnote Margaret Sisler created during the session: #oer and teacher librarians! Here are our slides.

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100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom – SULS033

Shake Up Learning

The App Hub is dedicated to bringing transparency to developers’ data and accessibility policies, and to help decision-makers find information about apps to meet the unique learning goals and policies of their school districts.”. I see the Chromebook App Hub as a bridge between developers and teachers and schools. ASSISTments.