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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

While watching TV in her free time, Joffe was struck by another idea: a ‘Netflix of online learning’ that could recommend digital resources to users. “I Still, research shows that digital-resource usage hasn’t reached its full potential.

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Challenges in Curation: Successfully Integrating Open Educational Resources in the Classroom

Digital Promise

The best laid plans can fail when you overlook the simplest of details. OER Commons defines them more eloquently as, “teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.”.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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Want Your Teachers to See Great Teaching? Quickly Build a Teaching Video Library

Edthena

Like other digital resources, a district-wide teaching video library in Edthena becomes an on-demand resource available to teachers whenever they might need access. All videos are accessed securely , even if teachers are working on a new lesson plan from home: only authenticated users in your district can view the videos.

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Budgeting Basics: How to Manage Saving and Spending

ACRE

The lesson plan provides examples that you can discuss with students to show them how to track income and expenses as well as how to create short and long terms savings plans. Download Budgeting Basics Resources for Digital Classrooms: Do you use an online learning system for your classroom?

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

The district already had an internal learning-management system that housed lesson plans, organized assignments and tracked student progress online, she said. But then “we agreed that kids need to be in class, so to speak.” Now, with students logging into it from home, “this is school until further notice.”.

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Young People Have Unanswered Questions About Abortion. Online Sex Ed Can Help.

ED Surge

Though comprehensive sex education has been stripped from some brick-and-mortar classrooms, lesson plans and digital resources compiled by experts have migrated online.