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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

A big shout out to EdTech Magazine for recognizing this blog on its 2017 Honor Roll. 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. This wonderful OER makes it easy for teachers to assemble their own textbooks.

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

Shake Up Learning

Chromebook Idea Spark #3: Building Proportion Dolls Using G Suite, Khan Academy and Screencastify. Teachers can flip their classroom by using Google Forms to learn about ratios and proportions using Khan Academy videos and exercises. Khan Academy Kids. Created by Patricia Garcia. Assess class performance.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. A Techcrunch op-ed : “Why edtech can’t grow as much as healthtech.” ” From the EdTech Researcher blog : “ Project Based Learning as Mindset.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Education Dive profiles Khan Academy’s Khan Lab School. (It It will be interesting to compare the success or failure of Khan Lab School with the failure of AltSchool. The business of OER. ” Via EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin : “The COPPA Rule, FERPA , and the Security of Student Data.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe,” according to an investor in Edsurge. ” Via IRRODL : “ Khan Academy as Supplemental Instruction: A Controlled Study of a Computer-Based Mathematics Intervention.” Among those cringeworthy ideas: the LMS.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The NAACP endorses OER. Perhaps this will help the Grovo fellows: “Tips for Landing an Edtech Gig – From the EdSurge Jobs Team.” Via Edsurge : “ Khan Academy ’s New ‘Teacher Aid’ Tool Goes for a Test Drive in Southern California.” ” (Wow. This image speaks volumes.).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. As Matt Barnum and Sarah Darville write in Chalkbeat , “The College Board’s research doesn’t show whether Khan Academy truly caused the score increases.

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