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Five digital citizenship activities everyone should know about

Hapara

Whether learners question rules related to internet usage or need support in how to use social media safely, opening a dialogue is one of the best ways to approach digital citizenship topics. Hāpara can help your school or district easily build and distribute a digital OER textbook collection.

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These Colleges Are Betting That Culturally Relevant Textbooks Will Improve Student Outcomes

Edsurge

The funds will cover financial support and mentorship for faculty who create new open educational resources (OER for short) or adapt existing open textbooks. We’re trying to encourage a model of deliberately constructing or reconstructing OER to fit the needs of your learners and not necessarily just to create a textbook.”

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Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

Edsurge

But if you go to a highly-trafficked area and the process is working, then you do find high-quality information, and the immediacy and the availability of that high-quality information makes it a compelling proposition. The OER conversation is very energized right now, and it's a complex conversation. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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Curation and the School Librarian

NeverEndingSearch

A little while back I had the opportunity to create a video on school librarians and social media curation with our Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information’s Social Media and Society Cluster. OER and you: The curation mandate. Curation Situations Poster.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

Virtual Libraries: Their Influence on High School Students’ Information Seeking and Use. Youth Information Seeking Behavior. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1999. I started playing around with the fairly easy and recently very popular strategy of building a library scene in Slides. TechLearning. Valenza, J.K. Chapter in Mary K.

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

Districts having success in this area have comprehensive refresh plans, work with high quality partners, build relationships with local businesses, work diligently to receive grants, and leverage a variety of open educational resources (OERs). Commit to Leveraging Social Media and Telling Your Great Story!

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. And it’s also about instruction and modeling for learners what it looks like to organize content and tools to manage our digital lives as information citizens. Curating OER.

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