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Top Three Open Educational Resource (OER) Databases

Career in STEM

Open educational resources (OERs) are those that are “freely available to the public, both technically and legally, to use and redistribute without limitation” ( U.S. OERs are: Public – available to all to no cost. OERs themselves are free, and the need to replace textbooks is eradicated. adapted from U.S. The US Dept.

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Every Student Deserves an IEP

ED Surge

Early in my career, I taught at a school with a very progressive inclusion policy. Core to the spirit of an IEP is each student having a sense of belonging, being known in an affirmative way and supported to succeed at school. But consider what the essence of an IEP might mean for our nation’s learners.

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Unlocking AI’s Potential: Live Blog #ISTELive

Cool Cat Teacher

10:38 Zeeshan Anwar (Chief Product Officer) and Tara Carrozza (Director of Digital Learning Initiatives) for NYC Public Schools Advice is to make sure that you have AI Accountabilities in place. So we captured what schools were doing and how they could start implementing it. How they make decisions for responsible AI use.

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Helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy with Teaspoon languages

Computing Education Research Blog

The “Hour of Code” is a one hour programming activity that many schools use in every grade, typically once a year during CS Ed Week (in early December). She has built a large online education resource (OER) on teaching data literacy in social studies. The teachers love the OER, but get confused about why should do in their classes.

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New Turnkey Project-Based Learning Resources for High School STEM Teachers

The Tech Savvy Science Teacher

MIT BLOSSOMS, an international education initiative founded in 2008 to encourage high school STEM teachers to pursue more active, student-centered learning, has recently enlarged its focus to support those teachers in moving to Project-Based Learning. All content from BLOSSOMS is OER, Open Education Resources, freely available to all.

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Empowering Educators: Online Workshops for Aspiring STEM Teachers – Comprehensive Guide

STEM Education Shopping

Open Educational Resources (OER): OER are freely accessible educational materials that can be used, shared, and modified by educators to meet their specific needs. For example, coding software like Scratch or Tinkercad allows students to apply their knowledge of programming and design principles in a hands-on manner.

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This Student Saw Teachers Lacked a Place to Share Digital Resources. So He Created One.

ED Surge

In his former school district in California, San Ramon Valley Unified School District, Rahul Bir noticed that the schools seemed inundated by technology. Schools have picked up all these new tech tools but it’s not always clear how teachers should actually use them. It pointed back to something he’d noticed before.