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Digital Curriculum for Elementary Grades:

OER and More

Link to Session Documents

bit.ly/TIES-OER

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Overview of the session

Introductions and Individual Expectations

  1. Experience 4th grade math lesson
  2. Overview of elementary digital content
  3. Build a method to evaluate digital resources
  4. Systemic implementation
  5. Call to action: Next steps of institutional digital curriculum implementation

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Use the list here bit.ly/TIES-guests - for logins

Go here - bit.ly/4-5Math - to access class

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Learning Materials / Content

Text (digital or in print),

Books,

documents,

magazines,

newspapers

Images - paper and digital

Videos - on tape or digital file

Audio - records, tapes, audio files

Websites

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Definitions

Free with permissions

Open or Free content http://opencontent.org/definition/

OER - Open Educational Resources

Open content neologism coined by David Wiley

Open access is about publishing

Open Source is about software

Open Pedagogy

Digital of Digital Content

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Content Ownership

All content is one of the three below:

Public Domain

Copyright protected ©

This occurs automatically when something is created in tangible form.

Creative Commons Licensed

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Content Resides, is Archived, or stored

Non-Digital

In books, magazine, records and tapes that are owned individually, or by institutions

that then share use. Revising, reusing, remixing, redistributing and retaining (the 5 Rs) are more difficult than with digital

Digital

Can be stored or reside in many more locations. All 5 R’s are much easier to do.

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Seven regularly used Creative Commons Licenses

All material with a CC0, CC BY. or CC BY SA is OER,

(CC BY SA NC is not considered Open because it doesn’t allow commercial uses.)

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Options for Use of Text Material with Students

Use printed copies of material

Use Websites - free or subscription

Print out ebooks, pages, or worksheets

Access ebooks from web devices

Use a LMS - Moodle, Schoology, Canvas, (Google Classroom*)

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Digital Resources

This list includes OER and non-OER digital resources. Most of them include activities for students to interact and show what they know.

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Efficacy of OER - https://youtu.be/SX0K0hb_xKE 4:40

Focused on higher ed but as noted in following video will likely be true for K12, too.

Break - 10 Minutes

MPCC video https://youtu.be/ARBtZYBljVU 5:00

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Open Educational Resource

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Rational Number Project 1 - Initial Fraction Ideas bit.ly/RNP-1

Rational Number Project 2 -

Fraction Operations and Initial Decimal Ideas

bit.ly/RNP-2

Open Educational Resource

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Open Educational Resource

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Teacher created content

within a school district

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Teacher created content

within a school district

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Online Subscription

Lots of free content but the full site is a fee-based subscription

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Online Subscription

20 free problems per day

Otherwise, this is a paid subscription

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  1. Work with participants to build a method to evaluate digital resources - Dan (20 minutes)

Use the Equips rubric:

EQuIP Rubric for Lessons & Units: Mathematics (PDF)

EQuIP Rubric for Lessons & Units: ELA/Literacy (PDF)

EQuIP Rubric for Lessons & Units: ELA/Literacy Grades K-2 (PDF)

2. Use the MPCC Review Rubric Template

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Systemic implementation - Dan (20 minutes)

    • Examples of Implementation tools

1. MPCC Implementation Readiness Checklist

(Participants to copy doc and begin to complete.)

2. U.S. DoE #GoOpen District Launch Packet

A useful resource with links to other implementation and planning tools.

3. Ed-Tech Pilot Framework

This site has a lot of various checklists that can be modified to assist in implementation

    • Open-ended discussion of participants’ experience with various aspects of implementation
  • The key is start with a well defined curriculum area
  • Include planning and more professional development than you think you’ll need. You can always switch the focus of the PD to meet evolving needs.

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  1. Next steps of institutional digital curriculum implementation, create to-do list - Dan (30 minutes)

Copy and Refine implementation Checklist for a specific content area.

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Questions and Contact info

Email questions to Dan McGuire - Dan@sabier.org

Seth Leavitt - Seth.Leavitt@mpls.k12.mn.us

Use Twitter to @sabier hashtag - #ElemOER

@SethLeavitt

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The Stone Arch Bridge Initiative for Education Resources

Sabier is a consultancy working to expand awareness and enhance skills for teachers and learners.

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About Me:

My Linkedin profile has job history, education, publications.

After a classics degree at St. John’s and graduate creative writing at the U of SoDak, I embarked on a career of selling, implementing and showing people how to use a variety of telecom, communications, and technology systems. Packing plants in South Dakota, Dartmouth Medical Center, 3M, U of Mn, and the Guangxi P&T in China were clients, among many others.

Then, for the 16 years I taught in the MPS, I was involved in some form of system implementation; in the last 5 years that included a Moodle system for science and language arts in 3rd and 4th grade based on student created work.

Since leaving the MPS five years ago, I’ve worked independently doing LMS Integration, Design,and Implementation - Learning Outcomes Management System Implementation - Open Education Resource (OER) Curation - Blended and Online Course Design and Facilitation -

Hybrid / Blended Professional Development.

I’ve recently created a non-profit organization that provides professional development for teachers who want to implement OER

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What is OER

Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources

OER defined:

OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

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Creative Commons

Copyright and Licensing

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Share Your Work - Education is sharing

Cable Green presented on this here at the Minnesota eLearning Summit two in 2014. He has multiple variations of his presentations available on Youtube.

Choose how you want to share your work

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OER Commons

Launched in 2007 by ISKME the OER Commons is a digital public library.

In addition to the public library, OER Commons is a promising collaboration platform.

Groups

Microsites - Custom Digital Libraries

Hubs - Custom Resource Centers where groups can create and share collections associated with a project or organization. Currently 13 hubs, one of which is the Minnesota OER Commons/Mn Learning Commons

The Minnesota Partnership for Collaborative Curriculum is one of the parts of the Minnesota OER Commons/Mn Learning

Marc Johnson’s MPCC_Overview_eLearningSummit_July_2015

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Teacher Preparation Programs

This is a plea for the involvement of our teacher preparation programs to get more involved with OER.

Every grade level in every subject area should have at least one if not more teacher prep program involved in continuing the evolution of our education resources.

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Siyavula Books

South Africa might be leap frogging us in the development of educational resources.

THE BENEFITS OF COLLABORATIVE OER DEVELOPMENT ARE RESOUNDING (see link)

What they’re not doing, yet, is making their oer LMS ready.

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Science Photography Activity,

Go to http://bit.ly/29WPffB again and try the

Science Photography Activity, 3rd Grade, Unit 1- 05

The key to this activity is the questions the teacher asks and the articulated criteria for feedback by teacher or peers.