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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. . These OER – open educational resources – may be good, bad or indifferent. Using OER wasn’t our goal,” Kockler said.
Several conversations lately have made me ponder the importance of community understanding and support for various new initiatives like open learning and OER adoption. This brought agreement from the group and led to a litany of complaints about CommonCore and other practices in the local schools. This relates to OER as well.
Yet Open Up Resources , a nonprofit providing open educational resources for the K-12 space, wants to buck the trend. Authored by nonprofit Illustrative Mathematics, the curriculum covers CommonCore standards for grades 6-8 math. Williams says the plan is to do the same this year.
Arts Edge – A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art into the curriculum.You will discover a focus on ways to support innovative teaching with the arts, and meet changing trends in education and to accommodate the ever-evolving impact of technology in our lives.
Arts Edge – A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art into the curriculum.You will discover a focus on ways to support innovative teaching with the arts, and meet changing trends in education and to accommodate the ever-evolving impact of technology in our lives.
On April 14th Cable Green, many participants, and I explored this question on the 11th Future Trends Forum. He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. TRENDS IN OPEN EDUCATION. Textbooks are 10-11 years old.
On April 14th Cable Green, many participants, and I explored this question on the 11th Future Trends Forum. He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. TRENDS IN OPEN EDUCATION. Textbooks are 10-11 years old.
Arts Edge – A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art into the curriculum.You will discover a focus on ways to support innovative teaching with the arts, and meet changing trends in education and to accommodate the ever-evolving impact of technology in our lives.
Arts Edge – A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art into the curriculum.You will discover a focus on ways to support innovative teaching with the arts, and meet changing trends in education and to accommodate the ever-evolving impact of technology in our lives.
The platform gives teachers and administrators the flexibility to mix and match content from a growing number of open educational resources (OER), to digitize existing content, or to build their own. . “ASSISTments allows teachers to assign what they want, when they want, free of charge.
backlash , in the words of Education Week’s Benjamin Herold, “echoes previous battles among various teachers’ union factions over highly politicized issues such as the CommonCore State Standards and standardized testing.”. Few education entrepreneurs today would suggest that technology should or will replace the teacher. (In
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.
Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the CommonCore Remains.” ” If you repeat these stories enough, it’s almost as if you can convince people to make it a trend. Stephen Downes and David Wiley debate OER : “The Cost Trap, Part 3” by David Wiley.
Via Politico : Stolen “emails from the Democratic National Committee show DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker telling his colleagues to avoid mentioning the CommonCore in a video. From Berkery Noyes, the “ Mergers and Acquisitions Trend Report ” for the first half of 2016. Get rid of it.’”
“Does Open Pedagogy require OER ?” ” Data and “Research” “We need a little patience” says USC professor Morgan Polikoff , when it comes to evaluating CommonCore. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ State Spending on Higher Ed Continues Upward Trend.”
” Via Chalkbeat : “‘ CommonCore ’ no more: New York moves to adopt revised standards with new name.” IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. More LAUSD news in the legal section below. But for some groups, it actually backfires.”
For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. 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.
“ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.” ” Edreports.org has released new reports on math textbooks and how well they align to the CommonCore. .” ( No disclosure about shared investors.).
Testing, Testing… “ CommonCore testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. “ Gates Foundation CEO Admits Underestimating Common-Core Challenges.” ” Trends to watch: Chinese investment in ed-tech.
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