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The Web 2.0 vs. Traditional Learner

A Principal's Reflections

digital resources. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this topic in an effort to create a powerful list of advantages that can be shared in schools that have yet to embrace this philosophy.

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Navigating Your Journey to Remote Learning

A Principal's Reflections

In the case of districts and schools that have limited digital resources, it defeats the purpose of assigning lessons and work if kids don’t know how they did upon their return. Digital leadership compels all of us to meet our stakeholders where they are and engage in two-way communication when possible.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Representation

Catlin Tucker

Different learners enjoy engaging with information in different formats, and some learners have sensory or perceptual disabilities that make it challenging to interact with information presented in traditional print formats. Customizing information is easier to do when teachers make that information available digitally. Representation.

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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. Most faculty members had a “very positive response” to the idea of open educational resources, Sánchez said. Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley on Friday, April 10, 2015.

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

Digital Promise

But as more districts sign the #GoOpen initiative to replace a traditional textbook adoption with OERs, the challenge of combing through a world of content and finding the best resources that align to a district’s curriculum becomes more difficult.

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Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook

Zinn Education Project

This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. Find related classroom resources below. But We Can’t Teach?

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Challenges Facing Edtech Procurement and Possible Solutions: Part 2

Digital Promise

Numerous resources exist to help end-users search potential products. For example, the Digital Promise Edtech Pilot Framework provides a resource bank of digital resources to help educators navigate through the multitude of companies within the edtech market.

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