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The Cost Trap, Part 3

Iterating Toward Openness

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As an educator, I like #OER as a tool for transforming learning.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Did you ever wonder how your own students might perform on those dozens of tasks? You can now find out.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Dan Meyer writes “Why Secondary Teachers Don’t Want a GitHub for Lesson Plans,” in a response to Chris Lusto who suggests that we do (or at least “We need GitHub for math curriculum.”) PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. FoxConn will acquire SMART for $4.50

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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. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

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