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?Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs

Edsurge

In 2013, PC Magazine reported that people between the ages of 18 to 24 are 16 percent more likely than any other demographic to have a cracked screen. Enhance OER access It has been well documented that students are reluctant to pay for textbooks and that the price of textbooks is particularly crippling for community college students.

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Part 1: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Science

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Project Noah – Visit tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere. National Geographic For Kids – Nat Geo Kids inspires young adventurers to explore the world through award-winning magazines, books, apps, games, toys, videos, events, and this website.

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Part 4: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Math

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

PDF documents. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. Plus Magazine – That is right… it is a magazine. OER Commons Math – This is a large collection of online resources that are part of the open education resource field.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

It is important that we document the process so we can learn and plan from it. Could this instead be done in a Zoom Room with a shared Google Document? It is important that we document the process so we can learn and plan from it. It is important that we document the process so we can learn and plan from it.

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On building learning playlists

NeverEndingSearch

I create little magazines of continually updated outside reading beyond our texts for my grad students offering them opportunities to explore and contribute. It would be a simple task to make multiple versions of a document with different playlists inserted. OER and you: The curation mandate. Playlists can be powerful.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

Like the DBQs, lessons revolve around a central historical question and sets of prima ry documents to engage learners with varied reading skills. The Reading Like a Historian curriculum also engages students in historical inquiry around both U.S. and world history events.