21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

I have also included links to over 45 valuable resources (Towards the bottom of the article). Check out this wonderful magazine for some great K12 educational articles, I will be presenting at Alan November’s BLC in Boston in July. I have three pre-conference workshops that you may want to register for.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Find standards-aligned content and assign practice exercises, videos and articles. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. You will also find articles aimed at older students. Each is a complete project that you may wish to include.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Frontiers Science For Kid s – Not only are these articles for kids… they are written by kids. Continue to explore all of the simulations, formative assessments, and lessons. SAS Curriculum Pathways Science – Check out these amazing lessons, inter-actives, and assessments that are free and engaging.

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STEM Resources Learning Conference 162

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

Ask questions that assess how a leader integrates and dictates technology into his/her projects and to those he/she leads. OER Commons provides a database of free learning materials commonly used by teachers nationwide. Digitally Mature Leaders . Address the ability of the teacher to instruct his/her students using technolo gy.

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I wish to share with you this article I wrote for PBLWorks (BIE/BUCK Institute) of which I am part of the National Faculty. I hope pou find this first article helpful and that you return for continued postings in this series. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? Read the article.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2018

But with the rise of OER, growing use of supplemental resources over core textbooks, and the increasing flexibility of state funding, more purchasing decisions have moved to the school and district level. They support sound pedagogy and balanced assessment to help teachers understand and interpret student performance.

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Instructional Materials Resources OER Policies 40

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

The move follows news earlier this year that Amazon Education is working on Inspire , a platform on which schools will be able to upload, manage, share, and discover such resources, known as OER. While some industry observers see OER as a challenger to the content and curriculum that schools pay for, others are more sanguine.

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OER Education Company Academic Standards 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Past Series Articles. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. In the last few posts we discovers nouns that could uncover OER (Open Education Resources) and verbs that could lead to important digital tools that allow for process development. Identify the standard.

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Blendspace Resources OER Technology 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

I’ll be writing a range of essays this year reflecting on two decades of work toward opening the core intellectual infrastructure of education (textbooks and other educational materials, assessments, and outcomes / objectives / competency statements) in order to increase access to and improve the effectiveness of education. Freeriders!

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OER Software Company Microsoft 80

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license. Stakeholders should assess their digital beliefs to see where they stand, and also consider tech affordability and accessibility with regard to digitization. What’s Out There Now. Just a dream? Not really.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

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! Each block has four indicators which I will be relating as I publish future articles.

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Resources OER Learning STEM 105

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” ” The article poses three questions and answers them. Below I share some thoughts prompted by the article. How do we deliver better learning experiences to more students?

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OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2015

OER Commons. About: One of the largest data bases of OER (Open Education Resources) for free classroom use. Highlights: Links to explanations of CC, Pictures, videos, articles, audios. Student Centered: Allows for student voice and choice in what they might use to demonstrate learning. Common Sense Media.

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Resources Tools Technology OER 60

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

We now know that formative or “real-time” assessment can support student learning better than traditional evaluations. Related: How to sort the good from the bad in OER. Jessica Berlinski , Juliette Berg and Maurice Elias contributed to this article. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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OER Outcomes Report Technology 74

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Albans City School, and several of her students explained how they’re using technology for assessment, service work, and more. This article was modified and published by eSchool News and EdScoop. In the edWebinar “ Students Leverage Technology Tools and Makerspaces to Personalize Learning,” Grace Borst, Innovation Specialist at St.

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Personalized Learning Learning OER Broadband 40

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Real ti me feedback from students for formative assessment. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article. You then create a clipboard to organize what you have clipped and then you can share the clipboards with students, colleagues, the public or just keep it for yourself.

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Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 22, 2016

Heather’s post is reacting to this quote from an article she read recently: “There is one additional requirement for widespread OER adoption. whether they are contributors to OER or users of OER). Incentives need to discourage ‘free-riders’ ” This statement is demonstrably false.

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OER Course Resources Assessment 61

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

Desired outcome (explore, apply, assess)? #2: They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs. The How-To Page recommends a five-step process for designing instruction: 1: Determine Objectives. Grade Level? Content Area(s)? Length of Lesson?

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Handbook Google OER Adobe 49

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

▪Textbooks and OER. Technology also allows educators to provide real time formative assessment, but also effective formative learning opportunities. As I will write about in a future article, SAMR has a direct relationship with student centered learning. Technology just might be the vehicle to allow this to happen.

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Technology Flipped Classroom Learning STEM 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Past… Beyond the Shine Series Articles. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. The teacher has worked hard at finding articles, reading lists, research links, and even You Tube videos on a various topics.

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Resources Technology Examples STEM 60

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. National) Education Politics. Her remarks.)

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Article ( [link] ) – Read more about the Gold Standards from PBL Works. They include some tools, information, ideas, articles, and concepts. There are articles, videos, PBL Units, rubrics, designer documents, and many more. Edutopia : ( [link] ) – A large collection of PBL articles, resources, videos, and ideas.

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Blended Learning Learning LMS STEM 180

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. November 8, 2009 (21centuryedtech Article by Michael Gorman). Why Scientific Innovation Needs The Arts – Explore this wonderful article from the Guardian that explains the connection between science and the arts.

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STEM Resources OER Conference 207

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. More on that in a subsequent article in this series.) It’s a theme that runs throughout almost every article in this series.“Fake The Thrillist had just published an article on “ The Netflix Prize: How a $1 Million Contest Changed Binge-Watching Forever.”

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2018

Matt Crosslin has posted a thoughtful response to our RISE article from last year. T]he bigger concern with the way grades are addressed in the RISE framework is that they are plotting assessment scores instead of individual item scores. Actually, we’re using neither individual items nor the entire assessment score.

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OER Outcomes Assessment Analysis 93

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2016

The article makes a strong argument for the importance of interoperability among learning platforms, tools, and content. While I think this is more accidental than malicious, as I’ll explain below, the article needs a clear response. give a copy of the content to a friend). Open Educational Resources. GPL or Creative Commons).

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OER Software Data Accessibility 60

eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2016

The companies will provide users of McGraw-Hill Education’s Engrade, a learning management and assessment platform for K-12 education, access to the Knovation Content Collection with more than 360,000 online learning resources, including videos, white papers, games, podcasts and articles using a single integrated search.

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Accessibility OER Company Adaptive Learning 40

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When you click on an app in the database, you will be taken to an information page that includes an overview, resource videos and tutorials, related articles, free or paid, device requirements, as well as integrations, like Google Classroom. Assess class performance. ” Here’s how it works: Create assignments.

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Chromebook Khan Academy Classroom Google 78

eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2019

[ Editor’s Note: This article was first published on the TCEA TechNotes blog.]. Related: How to find, curate, and assess OER. What does that world call to mind? A simple Google Images search will reinforce that notion. Now think about curation. Maybe you envision the very same. Are you going to send links?

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OER Google Assessment Tools 50

edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

The reviewers look at three key aspects of the material—the content and especially its alignment to core standards, accessibility of the content for all students, and the pedagogy, including teacher support and assessments. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenters.

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Instructional Materials Accessibility Policies OER 41

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information? The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2018

Can open educational resources, or OER, truly create more equity and access? That was the question at the heart of our #DLNchat on January 9, which centered around OER in Higher Education. To me OER is also about the democratization of access to education, and the pursuit and sharing of knowledge.

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OER Resources Education Digital Learning 79

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? Edsurge’s coverage of Top Hat’s OER news is also in the Betteridge’s Law section above. National) Education Politics.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Just how many people will actually read an article in a closed journal? Often open access journals provide online forums for discussion of the articles presented. Forget for a moment the ludicrous prices many publishers charge for personal and institutional subscriptions. Think about the audience.

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E-rate Accessibility Assessment Online Learning 61