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Five digital citizenship activities everyone should know about

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Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Whether you teach elementary, core subjects or electives, making digital citizenship part of your instruction is essential for all of your learners. Read on for digital citizenship activities you can use in elementary, middle school or high school.

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?A Playbook to Go Open: 5 Steps to Adopting OER

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As momentum for digital learning builds, some districts—80 percent according to the 2017 Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) K12 IT Leadership Survey Report —are using open educational resources (OER), which the U.S. But while many benefits of OER are visible on the surface, we must notice the fine print.

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?Teachers Can Now Use IBM’s Watson to Search for Free Lesson Plans

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From that focus group they narrowed the list of potential applications to professional development tools and, eventually, settled on a searchable database exclusively for elementary school math. The tech giant began last year by pulling in more than 100 top-level education leaders for a daylong event demoing the tech. Litow says.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

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They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. You can also share specific texts with individual students or small groups to differentiate instruction and personalize learning. Students will learn about Native American groups in different regions of the country.

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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. When you search for OER, you can find already-created lesson plans or other resources to add to your own class plans. Let’s look at the benefits of using an OER lesson plan and what it looks like. Why use an OER lesson plan?

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New Open Ed. Group Vows to Battle Commercial Publishers for K-12 Contracts

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Open Up Resources, a nonprofit that until recently was called the K-12 OER Collaborative, says it will offer openly licensed materials to school districts, and predicts it will achieve savings from what those systems would normally pay for commercial materials. Maturing Models? See also: Closely Watched Lawsuit Has Implications for Open Ed.

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The digital-first district where OER meets iPads

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Students tackle lessons at their own pace as they work in groups to focus on concepts they find most challenging. “I Instead, they power up glowing iPad screens and swipe and tap their way through math problems, the day’s reading or interactive content. The Pennsylvania Legislature is joining the U.S.

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