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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)? Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. Types of OER you can develop for K-12. Graphics like this angle reference graphic.

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Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. For this reason I will refer to it as finding the technology in the standard. Remember OER resources provide curriculum that: Makes learning more authentic by giving the teacher the ability to localize learning.

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The 2018 ‘Horizon Report’ Is Late. But It Almost Never Emerged.

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Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example. With OER, the report notes, “initial advances in the authoring platform or curation method of open resources is now overshadowed by campuswide OER initiatives and sophisticated publishing options that blend adaptive elements into an OER text.”

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Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016

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THE BIG GUYS: Here’s news from Google, ABCMouse, and Amazon. First up, Google Education announced a new “casting” app for the classroom projector, released the “Expeditions” virtual reality app for all teachers and students, and added a new quizzing feature in Google Forms. Full EdSurge coverage on Google here.)

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

For this reason I will refer to it as finding the technology in the standard. 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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#DLNchat: The Skills Gap-Fact or Fantasy?

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We started off attempting to land on a set of definitions for skills—many #DLNchat folks suggested we stray away from the terms “hard skills” and “soft skills” to refer to skills specific to one job vs. skills universal to all jobs. At our next #DLNchat , we’ll discuss Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Ed.

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Why ‘Personalized Learning’ Can Feel So Impersonal

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Rather than answering the question, lazy entrepreneurs too frequently offer vacuous references to companies like Amazon and Netflix. Let’s, for instance, take how companies like Google and Facebook “personalize” a user’s web browsing experience through search results, ads and content—and then apply that to instructional experiences.