eSchool News

JULY 15, 2016

OER meets iPads in this district. Instead, they power up glowing iPad screens and swipe and tap their way through math problems, the day’s reading or interactive content. Teaching for the 21st century looks a lot different. Here’s what admins — and teachers — need to know for job interviews and beyond.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 29, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Technology allows the 21 st century classroom to use this awareness of the nouns to connect with free resources on the internet known as OER (Open Education Resources). tools, iPad apps, and droid apps. Past Series Articles.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2015

Creating a Digital Learning Environment Digital Learning and Tools McClatchy News Top News books digital digital materials ipads mcclatchy OER print' Next page: Researchers look at millenials and print materials.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2016

The digital-first district where OER meets iPads. However, demand and expectations for learning outside of the school day are on the rise — and there are still many students struggling to complete homework online. Teachers and students at one district are replacing print with digital. By and large, it’s working. Schools in N.D.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2015

Learn about how to use open educational resources (OER) in your classroom! Net Texts is a two part system designed to make finding and using OER easier. Empower Your Students to Become Published Authors: Shutterfly Photo Story for iPad. Check out the content management system and app and start playing around today.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 23, 2020

I wanted to include a reading summarizing my current thinking on ‘evaluating the impact of OER’ in the course, so I’m letting some thoughts spill out below. In the past I’ve written frequently about how we evaluate the impact of OER use. and more OER impact research should follow that lead. versus 2.6).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Apple provided “help” in the form of iPads and other Apple hardware to 114 low-income schools in 29 states. Over the past few years, the government has made several moves in other edtech spaces, mostly related to open educational resources (OERs) and evangelizing innovation from the top-down.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2019

But – particularly when it comes to OER – we aren’t. Back in 2012 I wrote: You have to admit that some of the things the publishers are working on are both cooler and better than almost everything that currently exists in the OER space. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Or teaching machines?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

Of course, there is still Flipped Learning, 1 to 1 Programs, Blended Learning, Maker Movements, Genious Hours, SAMR, Learning Targets, 21st Century Learning, the 4C’s, Personalised Learning, Digital Textbooks, and OER! Open Education Resources – Talk about big, this network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Webinars can also be used to explore a variety of topics and initiatives that some teachers may not be familiar with, like autism instruction, OER (open educational resources), and the latest tech tools for iPads. Teachers can receive a wide variety of training in an environment where they can ask questions without feeling intimidated.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

They are now in their fifth year of 1:1 with iPads for grades K-12, and have designed learning environments to create student engagement. Pennsylvania on the other hand does not have a review process, but Elizabeth Forward School District in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania has transformed into a digital learning environment.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 29, 2016

These new collections support new literacies and leverage the new bounty of open educational resources (OER) supported by the White House’s #GoOpen initiative, as well as streamed media, and software for creating and sharing powerful, effectively, ethically produced digital stories. We curate new forms of digital texts.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

EdSurge: Schools today expose students to technology in a variety of ways, be it through Minecraft or an iPad. I wanted to ask you about OERs. Or, you can read highlights from the conversation below, which have been edited and condensed for clarity. You have these state institutions that are really spread out. Why do you think that is?

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

key=0Ap3z-8ofmQ4FdExMYVgwU2hDaGZzMXlJWFJWT28xU1E#gid=0 Typing/Keyboarding typingweb.com – this site offers straightforward tutorials and typing practice games.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

High Hope #4: Cleanly Curated Open Education Resources In order for high quality OERs to be combined with high quality instructional design, teachers need tools that allow them to curate the resources. Office of Education Technology launched GoOpen last year, OERs have gotten a big boost. A promising new iPad app is TES Teach.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Apple : “Apple iPad Sales to Schools Jump 32%, Selling 1M Tablets in Fiscal Q3 2017,” Edsurge reported in August. Students will receive iPads. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) Microsoft Windows devices – again, that’s laptops and tablets – remained at about 22%.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson was one of the companies, along with Apple, that was faulted as the Los Angeles Unified school district’s 1-to-1 iPad program, faced technical breakdowns and backlash. Pearson’s common-core aligned curriculum was supposed to come pre-loaded on iPads, and the company was criticized by those who said it wasn’t ready.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Slowly we saw the direct conversion of textbooks to eBooks in simple electronic formats like PDF which can be downloaded or accessed by students using mobile devices like phones, iPads and Kindle. The sale of digital textbooks is predicted to surpass 25% of new textbook sales for higher education in the United States in the next 5 years.

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Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2016

That being said, I still believe that the iPad has an important place in the classroom. LOOKING FORWARD I could go on and on with the trends that I have become excited about in 2016– coding , sketchnoting , Open Education Resources (OER) , and design thinking are others that come to mind. But these are just my opinions.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

- Derek Barkalow Teenage Kicks (for Grown-Ups) - Fiona Mauchline Urban Legends Through Digital Storytelling - James Gubbins What is this ''new'' writing?

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

” Via IHE blogger Joshua Kim : “The Institutional Impact of Maryville’s 1:1 iPad Program.” million project to use open educational resources (OER) to create degree programs at 38 community colleges. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Last year Achieving the Dream began a $9.8-million

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

.” Via NC Policy Watch : “ Ethics questions raised on DPI’s $6 million iPad purchase.” Prior to the department spending $6 million on iPads, Apple spent more than $5300 on meals and lodging for state Superintendent Mark Johnson and five other education officials to visit the company’s HQ. .

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“ Apple and Maine education officials are allowing school districts to trade in iPads for laptops after teachers and students say the computers are better for schoolwork,” according to The Sun Journal. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. 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. The iPad would solve that,” he said. Bill Gates wouldn’t let his kids have cellphones. Alexa at School. “Do

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

This week: “ OpenStax Partners with panOpen to Expand OER Access.” Via Quartz: “ Even Apple is acknowledging that the ‘ iPads in education’ fad is coming to an end.” ” Via Ars Technica : “Queen’s Brian May unveils Owl VR : His Victorian take on Google Cardboard.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via KPCC : “ LAUSD may try again to give an iPad or computer to every student.” “Some Thoughts on OER ” by Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. Via The New York Times : “De Blasio Proposes Changes to New York’s Elite High Schools.” ” More on the plan from Chalkbeat.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

billion it agreed to pay Apple/Pearson for iPads, but what do I know). More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. . “A computer for every LA Unified student would cost $311 million,” says the LA School Report (which seems significantly less than the $1.3 ” Amazingly dumb.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

” Via Apple Insider : “Jamf’s ‘innovation pod’ aims to offer iPad-based education to students in Haiti.” Edsurge on the business of OER. Via the AP : “The National Rifle Association has given more than $7 million in grants to hundreds of U.S. Excellent re-branding.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “One Campus’s iPad Revolution Results in Education Evolution.” “Does Open Pedagogy require OER ?” .” Via The Chronicle of Philanthropy : “America’s Biggest Donors Give Unusually Large Share of Gifts to Colleges.” ” LOL. ”).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.” ” IBM released a Watson-powered education app for iPad. Apple , as always, helps us see how criticism-free technology journalism can be. And Google is getting into the whiteboard business. IBM partners with Pearson.

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