Open Educational Resources In January, 2010, the Maine Department of Education awarded the Maine Alliance for Arts Education a grant to support the identification and encourage the use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in the Visual and Performing Arts. OERs are free on-line or digitized materials that may be used by students and teachers for educational purposes. You can learn more about OERs here . MAAE's grant was one of nine subject area grants funded through Title IID Enhancing Education through Technology - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Competitive Grant monies. In addition, the project has benefited from suggestions from Argy Nestor, Maine DOE’s Visual and Performing Arts Specialist; MaryEllen Schaper, Physical Education teacher at Bonnie Eagle High School; John Holdridge, Arts and Education Associate at the Maine Arts Commission; and Jason Bannister, English and Theater teacher at Troy Howard Middle School. This continues to be a work in process.
Seeks Instructional Gurus | BetterLesson Blog BetterLesson Seeks In-House Instructional Gurus This opening is for a math or ELA coach who is a bona fide Common Core guru and loves working closely with teachers! This position will be working full or part time from our Cambridge, MA offices as a critical part of BetterLesson’s Master Teacher Project (MTP) . BL’s Master Teacher Project: In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BetterLesson has recently begun the Master Teacher Project. The success of the Instructional Guru is, in part, defined by the the success of the Master Teachers (MTs) with whom they will be virtually interacting. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Provide comprehensive, virtual instructional coaching in math or ELA as related to the Common Core. Knowledge Experience and Training Qualifications: Reports to: Elizabeth Johnson, BL Senior Program Director. Please send a brief but compelling note and your resume to: christine@betterlesson.com Like this: Like Loading...
WebQuest.Org: Home Find Common Core-aligned resources - OER Commons! OER Commons' Advanced Search function allows the user to find Common Core aligned lessons by grade and then 'domain' - for example 'geometry' - easily. Many more resources on other subjects, too. The search page includes a wide variety of criteria beyond CC standards - subject, etc. - and the ability to search for 'interactive' tools, videos, assessments, simulations,and more. There's a rating system in place - it's in the early stages, as most of the results I saw did not yet have ratings. CC Connection: if you're looking for a lesson or other 'resource' - videos, assessments, case studies, even textbooks - this could be just the ticket to quickly find something effective to use from quality sites like Khan Academy, Geogebra, Edsitement, The Library of Congress, and many others.
Open Course Frameworks: Lowering the Barriers to OER Adoption I’ve been fairly quiet recently about Lumen Learning, the “RedHat for OER” I founded earlier this year with Kim Thanos. Lumen (for short) is where I’m spending my Shuttleworth Fellowship time, with the goal of drastically increasing the use of OER in formal educational settings in order to lower the cost and improve the quality of education. Today Lumen released its first six Open Course Frameworks. Open Course Frameworks are an idea I am very excited about, because they greatly simplify the process of adopting OER for the average teacher or institution. Open Course Frameworks are: curated collections of OER,mapped to learning outcomes,openly licensed with detailed attribution,organized in a way that looks and feels like an online course,published on open source platforms, andcompatible with Lumen’s ImprovOER continuous quality improvement service (which we are publicly showing for the first time at InstructureCon in a few weeks).
Does Your EQ Pass the Google Test? I have been thinking a lot about questions lately and Jim Laney’s recent post brought some of my thinking to the forefront. Essential Questions are the corner stone, in my opinion, to a good inquiry-based classroom. In thinking about this, I went back to one of my favorite books Understanding by Design (I lived by this book when I was in the classroom). I love this quote about Essential Questions from the book: The most vital discipline-bound questions open up thinking and possibilities for everyone — novices and experts alike. Creating good Essential Questions is difficult but so rewarding when you get the right one. Am I asking a question that Google can answer? Some rights reserved by Tintin44 – Sylvain Masson If the answer is yes…then maybe the question doesn’t need to be asked or maybe it needs to be expanded to ask the students to do more than simply answer the question. What makes a civilization great? Why do you think this civilzation is considered great?
200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites... This collection provides a list of free educational resources for K‑12 students (kindergarten through high school students) and their parents and teachers. This page is being updated and cleaned up during the COVID-19 crisis. Please tell us if we’re missing something valuable. Below you will find free video lessons/tutorials; free mobile apps; free audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks; quality YouTube channels; free foreign language lessons; test prep materials; and free web resources in academic subjects like literature, history, science and computing. Home Schooling Resources During COVID-19 Amazing Educational Resources: A spreadsheet of 300+ education companies offering free subscriptions due to school closings. Free Audio Books, eBooks and Textbooks Free Audio Books: Our collection of 450 free audio books includes many children’s classics. Foreign Languages Video Lessons/Tutorials Art & Visual Culture (Web Resources)
Project-Based Learning 11 tools by Katre Laan from myhistro.com The rise of technology used in classrooms has made learning much more interactive. The emergence of iPads to browser-based tools in project-based learning, take teaching to a new level in the 21st century. Even the current trends in education include the use of new technology, from collaborative projects to blending traditional textbook teaching with innovative tools. For students, the core aim of project-based learning is to put theory into practice and gain new skills throughout the process. A major advantage of digital tools used is better engagement in the classroom. Browser-based tools and several apps used in education are especially useful for researching, storytelling and collaborative video making. Handy mobile devices allow students to be inspired when outside classroom by creating and sharing ideas and creations instantly. Here is a mini guide to some of the project based learning tools. 1) Mindmeister 2) Glogster 3) Myhistro 4) Pixton 5) Animoto
Maine Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant What are Open Educational Resources (OER)? Open Educational Resources (OER) are online resources that are open and free for teachers and families to use. OER can be used to help students/children achieve and learn, as well as provide families with activities and ideas to help their children learn or reinforce at home the concepts they are learning in school. There are lots of websites to help families to support the emotion, physical, and academic growth of their child. Why are OER Important? OER come in a variety of formats. Links to Other Subject Area Final OER English Language Arts: Science and Technology: Social Studies: Visual and Performing Arts: See photos from the workshop "Responding to Teacher Needs: A Wishlist for World Language Education" at the FLAME annual conference March 4, 2011 >>Visit our Events page to see more photos. New!
Connecting Lessons to Common Core: Nationalistic Travel Brochures | Michael K. Milton ~ @42ThinkDeep For the past few weeks, I have been reflecting upon my past lessons and adapting them to the Common Core Standards for History/Social Studies. It has been a great exercise and has allowed me to reexamine the purpose of my activities (and made enhancements for next year). It has also led me to to find some amazing Common Core resources – like this Scoop.it! page curated by Darren Burris and Engaging Educators “Engage the Common Core” blog. This was one of my favorite activities to design – to demonstrate their understanding of nationalism, my students created a tri-fold travel brochure for Italy, Germany, Haiti, or Mexico (we had just discussed how these nations became free/unified). The Standards WHST.11-12.2.Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes. WHST.11-12.4. The Assignment Part of the reason that I loved putting together this activity is that it allowed me to present it in a fun way.
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Grade 9 CC ELA Units