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These Colleges Are Betting That Culturally Relevant Textbooks Will Improve Student Outcomes

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Millie González and her colleagues aren’t here to argue about whether open educational resources are on par with traditional textbooks?she culturally relevant textbooks? Usually when you hear any discussion about free textbooks, it really talks about just the cost, and what we’re saying is, it goes way beyond that.”

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

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I was a first year math teacher placed at a brand new, alternative high school serving at-risk youth in New York City. Plus, the available content was designed around how much time I’d spend teaching it versus what I actually needed to get students adept at learning the topic at hand. You’ve got time to plan ahead.”

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The digital-first district where OER meets iPads

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Instead, they power up glowing iPad screens and swipe and tap their way through math problems, the day’s reading or interactive content. In high school math teacher Joe Sowinski’s classes, technology has changed class structure.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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He explained with pride that he has figured angles and curvature to obtain the greatest grace, and said, “I want to be a person who puts math and art together.” His writing on games raised the hackles of some in the education community: “Game designers have a better take on the nature of learning than curriculum designers….Their

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Do Virtual Schools Flatten Cultural Identity? Or Expand It?

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On the surface, they educate students in math, science, and literature. But equally important is the less visible curriculum: the transmission of norms, values, customs, and shared identity. Rethinking Curriculum: From Global to Glocal One of the most powerful levers of cultural identity in K12 online education is the curriculum.

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Teachers Aren't Getting Enough Training on Technology. It’s a Global Problem.

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Aiming to improve Kenyan students’ base math skills, it had distributed over 3 million textbooks, appraised nearly 30,000 teachers, and its national student information system had registered 96 percent of all students nationwide. By 2019, the World Bank’s PRIEDE project had exceeded several of its goals. hours to 10 minutes.