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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

This informed my teaching from the get-go, while frequent meetings with their parents enriched my insight into their context. Secondly, through digital delivery of open educational resources (OER), teachers can modify lessons to reflect student interest and context by choosing different texts, materials and videos aligned to standards.

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Helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy with Teaspoon languages

Computing Education Research Blog

Last year, Tammy Shreiner and I received NSF funding to develop and evaluate computational supports for helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy and computing(see post here ). Teachers (and students eventually) will be learning foundational CS content — not necessarily the ones we typically teach in CS classes.

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Unlocking AI’s Potential: Live Blog #ISTELive

Cool Cat Teacher

Tara: AI Teaching Assistant in Computer Science with OER curriculum to support students in those subjects. Tara: We will expand teaching assistant to other curriculum and what prompting is needed to build student agency and agency and not give them the answer but will teach them to self solving problems as well.

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The information won’t just sink in: Helping teachers provide technology-assisted data literacy instruction in social studies

Computing Education Research Blog

Since this was a journal on educational technology, we mostly focused on two technologies: The OER Tammy created to support data literacy in social studies education — see link here. The end goal was easy to describe: we wanted social studies teachers to teach data literacy. Teachers are teaching data literacy, or they’re not.

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

STEM Education Shopping

Get ready to launch your STEM teaching journey! Online workshops for aspiring STEM teachers ( 1 ) offer accessible platforms to enhance teaching skills and engage with modern methodologies. These workshops are designed to provide aspiring STEM teachers with a comprehensive understanding of the subjects they will be teaching.

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What it Means to Be Teaching Out of Field (OOF) and What to Do About It

Mrs. Harris Teaches

To sum it up, most science teachers are teaching subjects they were not trained in college to teach (a.k.a teaching out of field), but there are many internet and book resources out there to help. Many science teachers with 5 years of experience or less are teaching subjects in which they have not been prepared.