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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

OER – Open Educational Resource (this can be any online materials that are free to use). Windows, Android). Tagged: acronym , acronyms , edtech , education , exxample , learning , tech , technology , terms. NGDLE – Next-generation Digital Learning Environment. OSS – Open Source Software (programs online that are free to use).

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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

Hapara

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. Why you should develop OER for K-12.

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Looking backward and forward

Kathy Schrock

Discovery VR , Google Expeditions ( iOS | Android ), and ThingLink VR are some of the large-scale projects in this area specifically targeted for education. In my Kathy’s Katch April column , I covered how and why educators might want to use virtual reality in the classroom. But these are just my opinions.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The business of OER. Via Quartz : “ Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled.” ” Via EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin : “The COPPA Rule, FERPA , and the Security of Student Data.” TBH, I still can’t remember what Unizin actually is.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. ” Via Edsurge : “Why Moodle ’s Mastermind, Martin Dougiamas, Still Believes in Edtech After Two Decades.” Android apps to be specific. .” ( No disclosure about shared investors.).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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 following year, Negroponte boasted that “within two weeks, [children] were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android.”

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