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5 questions to answer about OER use

eSchool News

As open educational resources (OER) grow in popularity, school leaders are tasked with identifying the best way to find, organize and use these resources. During a CoSN webinar focused on using effective OER use, a panel of educators shared their experiences and offered insight on OER’s impact on education.

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Washington State Releases K12 AI Guidance

The Thinking Stick

I mean I like them all, but these two: Avoiding sole reliance on the use of “AI detection” tools in checking for student plagiarism. These tools often use data that is biased against students who are multilingual/English language learners. are my two favorites. are my two favorites. This guidance is just the beginning.

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The Sleight of Hand of “Free” vs “Affordable”

Iterating Toward Openness

In a recent webinar about OER, organized by one of the major textbook publishers, there was a lot of conversation about whether OER are “free” or “affordable.” Before I begin though, just to be clear, allow me to reaffirm that OER are free, plain and simple, full stop, period. Problem the First.

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A School Leader’s Guide to Using edWeb for Personalized Teacher PD

edWeb.net

edWeb’s online PLCs host highly engaging webinars on a wide variety of education-relevant topics that provide a candy store of professional learning for teachers. edWeb hosts over 300 webinars per year, providing real-time meet-ups with educators all around the world – a powerful and supportive learning community.

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ISTE Librarians’ Takeaways (Crowdsourced)

NeverEndingSearch

I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. And here is the sketchnote Margaret Sisler created during the session: #oer and teacher librarians! Here are our slides. What happened next is heartbreaking.

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Week of February 7th, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. SCOPE AND SEQUENCE IN ANVILL ( Host Your Own Webinar Series ) Mon 7 Feb 07:00PM New York / Tue 8 Feb 12:00AM GMT / Tue 8 Feb 11:00AM Sydney Jeff Magoto. tools to use?

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. Sometimes an LMS discussion will help and other times integrating with another tool can be beneficial. Look for Part 2 of this post soon, with tech tools for PBL in a blended learning environment.