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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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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. But writing curriculum wasn’t just labor-intensive, it was emotionally exhausting. If that sounds like a lot of work, it was.

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Debunking the myth that good teachers shouldn’t use curriculum aids

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It also reflects the prevalence of low-quality and uninspired textbook series that have dominated the market throughout the latter half of the 20 th century. Some packages simply did not have much to offer, while others talked down to teachers, as the oft-used phrase “teacher-proof curriculum” suggests. This myth has great appeal.

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Creating smart campuses to transform student life

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This connectivity enables seamless access to online learning platforms, digital textbooks, and interactive educational software, which enriches the learning experience and supports diverse learning styles. Smart campuses leverage high-speed internet to support a range of educational tools and resources.

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The digital-first district where OER meets iPads

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Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year. The district provides a personal iPad for every teacher, middle and high school student, and teachers’ lessons include a mix of purchased and free online resources.

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From DC Chancellor to Edtech Founder: Kaya Henderson on Her New Venture in Culturally-Relevant Education

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I want teachers and tutors and curriculum designers to be free to do the things that we think are good and right for kids. Even before we launched our product, I had a textbook publisher call and say, “Can we just buy your curriculum?”. I don’t want to be “school.” And there just are not enough providers.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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Nonsense, Seymour said: “The language of these ads betrays the way in which this software throws away what is best about the contribution of game designers, and replaces it with what is worst about the contribution of school curriculum designers.”. Did you ever hear about a game advertised as being easy?

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