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

ED Surge

Location, Location, Location AwesomeSTEAM has inspired some enthusiasm, with a K-12 teacher in Canada even offering to translate the project into French. Bir’s site may have attracted so many users because traditional library resources aren’t on the top of people’s minds.

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A possible solution to one college cost problem: free books

The Hechinger Report

College students in Rhode Island will save a collective $5 million a year if a plan to replace traditional textbooks with free materials is effective. Unlike a K-12 teacher, a professor has the right to choose course materials – it’s not a decision made by the administration. Photo: Alison Yin. The plan, announced by Gov.

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

Digital Promise

As the moderator of a SXSWedu panel covering the Challenges of Curation in K-12 Schools, I held several brainstorm calls with the panelists, sent them thought-starter questions, solicited feedback from teacher and librarian contacts in the industry, and thought I was as ready as I could be. Librarians are trained master curators.

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Supporting Research-Based Personalization for Reading Success

Digital Promise

To meet the growth in learner diversity in today’s classroom, a new paradigm for improving the precision and accuracy of “personalization” is critical to address the needs of students who are held back by traditional pathways designed for the mythical “average.”

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

ED Surge

Others are turning to social media to fill in gaps when traditional forms of education are either disappearing or insufficient. These platforms, now part of our daily lives, have the power to reach young people where traditional education may fail.