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and I am merely a fan – not a fanboy – of open educational resources (OER).** Others surely see me as some sort of OER fanatic. So, if these are the actions of someone who is an OER fan, what stops me short of claiming fanboy status? I work in K-12 education in the U.S., I beg to disagree. Image credits.
Whether learners question rules related to internet usage or need support in how to use socialmedia safely, opening a dialogue is one of the best ways to approach digital citizenship topics. Hāpara can help your school or district easily build and distribute a digital OER textbook collection.
Districts having success in this area have comprehensive refresh plans, work with high quality partners, build relationships with local businesses, work diligently to receive grants, and leverage a variety of open educational resources (OERs). Commit to Student Privacy and Clearly Articulate Policies to Stakeholders.
Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. Strong opinions may be weakly held.
Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. Strong opinions may be weakly held.
Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. state-level policies relating to open education. This strikes me as both awesome and terrifying – and a stark reminder of the limits of computing.
like some states and districts, we created open access textbooks and taught teachers how to curate open educational resources (OER), thus freeing up textbook monies for other purposes?
Confusion about quality and actual rigor are added by the OER preferential language of both the federal government and the states. In the education socialmedia platform Knowstory, little light bulbs are used as the ratings symbol. Where favorable, that product rises in purchase and use.
The App Hub is dedicated to bringing transparency to developers’ data and accessibility policies, and to help decision-makers find information about apps to meet the unique learning goals and policies of their school districts.”. Developers Resource Page – a resource page for app developers to access best practices and policies.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #librariesascommunityanchors on their socialmedia posts about the event. As executive director, he spearheads SHLB's membership growth and shapes its broadband policy recommendations. Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Ph.D., in Communication from University of California, San Diego.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #librariesascommunityanchors on their socialmedia posts about the event. As executive director, he spearheads SHLB's membership growth and shapes its broadband policy recommendations. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The call for proposals is now open.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #librariesascommunityanchors on their socialmedia posts about the event. As executive director, he spearheads SHLB's membership growth and shapes its broadband policy recommendations. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The call for proposals is now open.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #librariesascommunityanchors on their socialmedia posts about the event. As executive director, he spearheads SHLB's membership growth and shapes its broadband policy recommendations. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The call for proposals is now open.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #librariesascommunityanchors on their socialmedia posts about the event. As executive director, he spearheads SHLB's membership growth and shapes its broadband policy recommendations. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #librariesascommunityanchors on their socialmedia posts about the event. As executive director, he spearheads SHLB's membership growth and shapes its broadband policy recommendations. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #librariesascommunityanchors on their socialmedia posts about the event. As executive director, he spearheads SHLB's membership growth and shapes its broadband policy recommendations. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #sustainabilityinlibraries on their socialmedia posts leading up to and during the event. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded. REGISTER HERE to attend live and/or to receive the recording links afterward.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #sustainabilityinlibraries on their socialmedia posts leading up to and during the event. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded. REGISTER HERE to attend live and/or to receive the recording links afterward.
Promoting Innovation and Creativity During the School Day - Philip McIntosh, Math and Science Teacher STEM Can Lead the Way: Rethinking Teacher Preparation and Policy - Marcella Klein Williams Ed.D., Carmona, Lead Contract English Instructor Student-Generated Apps for Mobile Devices – can they enhance higher levels of understanding?
Also, make sure theses extras align with the District AUP (Acceptable Use Policy). What are the ramifications with any insurance of the devices in relationship to policies in, or not in, effect? Digital Curriculum… 24 OER (Open Edu Resources) Free. This will be helpful in planning a PD timeline and a scaffold for teachers.
Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of socialmedia; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” How is Google influencing policy?
Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #sustainabilityinlibraries on their socialmedia posts leading up to and during the event. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded. REGISTER HERE to attend live and/or to receive the recording links afterward.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2016 and #librariesofthefuture on their socialmedia posts leading up to and during the event. Recordings from previous years are available under the Archives tab at Library 2.0 and at the Library 2.0 YouTube channel. See you online! Steve Hargadon Library 2.0
Participants are encouraged to use #library2016 and #librariesofthefuture on their socialmedia posts leading up to and during the event. Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries. See you online! Steve Hargadon Library 2.0
Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.
Via Edsurge : “Experts Look Into the Crystal Ball of the Next Administration’s Ed Policy.” Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on socialmedia and asking him to kill her teacher.” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “About That Cengage OER Survey.”
“Will Reversal of FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Policy Help or Hurt Schools?” “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ socialmedia activity ,” ProPublica reports. Department of Labor as a senior policy adviser.”
“A new Education Department policy will dramatically limit the amount of student loan relief some students get after being misled by their schools.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Student blasts Georgia Tech for monitoring his socialmedia accounts, including details about his travel plans and activist work on campus.”
They argue that putatively equitable technologies actually reinstate social inequalities. They worry that the pedagogical benefits of having students participate in the open web and/or socialmedia might be cancelled out by trolls, hate speech and other forms of online abuse.
The State Policy Network has a plan to counter union activism with anti-union PR. “ 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. ” asks Edsurge. and James L.
Meanwhile on Campus… Via Education Week (from last Friday – as I work on the week’s round-up of news, I try to avoid looking at socialmedia, but I think there was another school shooting this morning): “10 Dead, Most of Them Students, and 10 Wounded in Texas High School Shooting.” ” Oh.
It points to policies the university can pro-actively ennact, and laws that could have been enforced by university police.” IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. Just a reminder that Twitter does not care about your school’s socialmedia initiative.
Ever wonder how stories promoted by ‘thought leaders’ on socialmedia get selected? Here’s what caught my eye the week of March 6, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. This reversal in policy is a bad decision for all of us."
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. Indeed, DonorsChoose.org expects teachers to leverage their socialmedia presence in order to fundraise for supplies for their classrooms. 3D Printing.
.” Via The Atlantic : “A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s New College Sexual Assault Policy.” Via Chalkbeat : “How Trump’s tax law may have just gotten in the way of Betsy DeVos ’ favorite policy.” His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Because “open.”).
“The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Will Merge Government Data, SocialMedia Posts.” Via the CBC : “ Sesame Street to enter U.S. classrooms in new deal with McGraw-Hill Education.” ” More via the AP.
I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on socialmedia. Via WHIO : “ School socialmedia director fired after correcting student’s misspelled tweet.” Via eCampus News : “ Cengage launches MindTap ACE, an OER-based solution for higher ed.”
Also via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Purdue ’s President Says Free-Speech Policy Forces Him to Defend Faculty Critic.” Via Techcrunch : “ Kudos wants to be a gentle introduction to socialmedia sharing for kids.” ” The White House wants an investigation.
“Some Thoughts on OER ” by Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Lobbying group for independent colleges says it’s open to expanding federal data collection on student outcomes but remains opposed to student-level database favored by public colleges and many policy makers.”
“15 Ways Taylor Swift ’s Lyrics Solve Education Policy ’s Most Pressing Issues” is, no doubt, the most godawful white lady thing I’ve seen this week in education news. ” Inside Higher Ed looks at how Notre Dame is changing its policies and practices regarding campus sexual assault.
Meanwhile on Campus… The New York Times on “How the Parkland Students Got So Good at SocialMedia ” – a really important corrective, I’d argue, to that “digital native” silliness. Edsurge on the business of OER. .” It’s a “university” not a university, but hey.
Officials from 11 states are suing the Obama Administration over the guidance it recently issued regarding transgender bathroom policies and civil rights law. Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on socialmedia,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss.
was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on socialmedia.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on socialmedia or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.
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