Is It Right For Your District? #Go Education

The Department of Education has invested time, money and energy into creating an awareness of why would a school district consider becoming an Open Education site? The foundation of GoOpen is to transition to the use of openly licensed educational resources to improve students learning. Traditionally educators taught their curricula from textbooks. The majority of the time. Much of the information would be outdated.

Traditionally educators taught their curricula from textbooks. The majority of the time. Much of the information would be outdated. This causes the educator to search for supplemental material. Textbooks are costly material and often only a fraction of the material is taught.

On the website of the Department of Education – Office of Educational Technology shares Openly Licensed Educational Resources, “In the 2016 National Education Technology Plan, the Department defines openly licensed educational resources as teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others.”

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Open Data Sets & Resources

• Data.gov/education – http://www.data.gov/education/
• Project Open Data – https://project-open-data.cio.gov/
• College Scoreboard – https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
• U.S. Open Government Initiative – https://www.whitehouse.gov/open

Edcamp Launches PBS Partnership

Teacher-Led Learning Program Offers Personalized Training Events in Communities Nationwide Edcamp.org

Arlington, VA – October 4, 2017 – PBS and Edcamp today announced a first-of-its-kind national partnership that will create opportunities for early childhood educators across the country to engage in peer-to-peer learning. Through this innovative effort, Edcamp and PBS member stations will bring together teachers in communities across the country to elevate their voices and empower them professionally. The initiative will kick off with a series of PBS Edcamp events produced in partnership with PBS stations and will use Edcamp’s “unconference” professional development model, in which teachers lead their own learning experiences.

 

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How to Be a Difference Maker in Education (in the midst of the overwhelming nature of our jobs) By AJ Juliani

AJ Juliana shared his views of how overwhelming to be a leader in education. As Marget Mead said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

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Edcamp STEAM & Makerspace

How Edcamp STEAM are impacting education. Many educators are opening their classroom to offer STEAM and Makerspace movements. Edcamps is an unconference learning. Meaning you don’t have an agenda or the typical sit and get training. But then everyone is looked as being knowledgeable about something to enhance the learning.

Markerspace is a place that provides hands-on, creative ways to encourage students to discover, design, explore and invent as they deeply engage in science, technology engineering, arts, and math.

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How to Work With Difficult People

I came across an interesting post after a positive training. How many of us feel we work with difficult people or we are that difficult person? Here are some tips that were shared from Nivene Judeh. Continue to read for more information.  Link

 

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Average – by Dr. Dorian L. Roberts

This was a powerful blog written by Dr. Dorian L. Riberts about being average. She teaches in the Detroit Public School system. Follow her on Twitter @drroberts 

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Loopy created by Nicky Case

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Loopy created by Nicky Case

Source: Loopy created by Nicky Case

Loopy created by Nicky Case

Source: Loopy created by Nicky Case

Using Clever at Star Elementary in Hastings

Teaching young students how to properly remember and enter their different usernames and passwords can be an overwhelming task. Here is a free tool that could help to take the stress out of the term, students login on your device. The tool I am referring to is called Clever. Clever is an easy way for a user to access all of their learning applications. The user only has to login once. The targeted audience is kindergarten to second grade.  

How it works The kindergarten students use Clever to login their Chromebooks and now different applications. Clever allows students to a QR code on student ID badges on the webcam of the Chromebook. This help to eliminate time for students looking up and entering their password. At the end of the day, Keith and Ron was able to discover more application that could be pushed out to allow the students to login faster. It is a simple process for the users.

Step 1:  Personalized Clever Badges with QR codes

Step 2: Students hold their Clever Badge up to the webcam on their device.

Step 3: Students have access to all of their learning applications connected with Clever with no typing

Clever has over 200 applications here are just a few from the App Gallery:

• Google Apps for Education
• Active Directory
• Office 365
• Canvas
• LDAPs
• Lenovo Stoneware/webNetwork
• ABC Mouse
• Common Sense Education
• Code.org
• Code Combat
• Canvas
• Edmodo
• Edupoint Synergy

 

Clever Security and Privacy:

Security: Clever uses defense grade security standards

Privacy: Clever is 100% FERPA compliant

Control: Districts always maintain full control of their data.

Instant Login: SAML and OAUTH 2.0 for authentication. Districts will maintain 100% ownership of their data.  

 

For more information contact the Clever staff at https://clever.com/about/contact/.