Learn how to take advantage of BYOD safely in your classrooms with digital open educational resources.
New Options for the New Normal:
How to Capitalize on Open Educational Resources (OER) and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) To Expand Learning Without a lot of Cost
The use of Digital Open Educational Resources (OER)and Bring Your Own Device programs are growing in popularity in K-12 education. Yet educators have questions about OERs, smartphones, and tablets in the classroom. We will clarify all the misconceptions about what OERs are, how they work, and how to develop instructional strategies. You'll learn about NEW networking solutions that can help to ensure the smartphone or tablet is used for educational purposes only.
• Effectively use Open Educational Resources (OER).
• Evaluate the quality of Open Educational Resources.
• Understand the basics of digital licenses.
• Learn how to take advantage of BYOD safely in your classrooms.
4. Curriki = Quality
Quality Resources
• 47,000 free resources
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Specialists & Members
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5. Today’s Mission
Discover how OERs broaden the use of alternatives to
textbooks while maintaining instructional quality, and
lowers costs.
Learn how to use BYOD and OER to enhance classroom
curriculum and to collaborate with other teachers.
Learn how to take advantage of BYOD safely in your
classrooms.
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18. OER Content Management
• How do I find stuff?
• How do I know it’s accurate?
• How do I share content?
• How do I organize content?
• How do I categorize content?
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19. Curriki = Quality
47,000 Free Resources
Teacher Contributed Partner Contributed
• Vetted by Curriki • Hand-selected by
Content Specialists Curriki
• Reviewed by Members • Recommended by
members
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31. Think of Curriki as…
Library of Congress
Personalized Content Collections
Videos, Podcasts, Animations,
Simulations
Social Networking
Open Source Licensing
Expert and Group Reviews
Community-Developed Content
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34. Recap
OER can broaden the use of alternatives to textbooks
while maintaining instructional quality.
OER can enhance classroom curriculum and help you to
collaborate with other teachers.
OER can help to lower costs of instruction.
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35. Device Explosion
383M 315M 1.2
Tablets and Projected US Devices per
smartphones in population by person by
the US by 2016 2016 2016
Source: Forrester Group Source: US Census Bureau
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36. Mobile Broadband Explosion
20,000%
Mobile data traffic on the AT&T network grew more than 20,000
percent from 2006 to 2011, more than doubling in 2011 alone.
Source: 2011 AT&T Annual Report
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37. Need For Wi-Fi In Schools
71%
Percent of school district IT leaders who said wireless
infrastructure was their top priority in 2011, up from 46% in 2010.
Source: State of the K-12 Market Report 2011, EdNet Insights, MDR
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39. Good BYOD Programs
Allow students to bring their devices to school,
but, don’t allow them to connect to a network.
To read digital books
To access learning apps/games
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40. Better BYOD Programs
Allow students to bring their devices to school,
and provide them filtered internet access.
To access internet-based content
To use learning apps/games requiring
network access
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41. Great BYOD Programs
Allow students to bring their devices to school,
and provide them access to the school network.
To access licensed content purchased
by the school
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43. Considerations
Internet Access
38 Kbps 50 Kbps
Average internet bandwidth Recommended internet
per student in 2011 bandwidth per student
Source: State of the K-12 Market Source: The Broadband Imperative,
Report 2011, EdNet Insights, MDR SETDA
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44. Considerations
Wi-Fi Coverage
Identify critical coverage areas
Access point placement
Post-install RF signal test
Secure access
On-going network monitoring
Equipment failure plan
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45. Considerations
Student Devices
Limit Unauthorized Use Device Container
How can you limit student texting, Containerize the device with MDM
Facebook, tweets and other activities software and implement an AUP for
at school? only the academic container only.
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Briefly intro Curriki.Non-profit offering FREE learning resources.Our visitors and members hail from around the world! SAY PERCENTAGE OF Educators 60%Parents 13%Students 27%ADD TWIT POLLS
There are many sources for OERs on the web – I am sure we could name hundreds of individual sites offering a specific type of free/open content. What Curriki does is aggregate all of those sources so the highest quality is all in one place. On Curriki, Teacher contributed content is reviewed and rated by our Curriki Review Team – subject area experts.Members also rate resources - similar to Yelp.Our visitors and members hail from around the world! SAY PERCENTAGE OF EducatorsParentsStudents
So we are all here to discuss how to implement the incorporation of open resources and BYOD on a school wide basis that will be at a comfortable pace for teachers and learn more about the available OER to better provide a BYOD experience to students.To be successful in that schools realize cost savings and student engagement/achievement improvements, open educational resoruces or OER, must be a key element of the implementation. Through this discussion, we hope that you will Discover how OERs broaden the use of alternatives to textbooks while maintaining instructional quality, and lowers costs.Learn how to use BYOD and OER to enhance classroom curriculum and to collaborate with other teachers.Learn how to take advantage of BYOD safely in your classrooms.
Play Video: http://youtu.be/nJ0nlh5FU5ATechnology in the Classroom has Changed….again.But first let’s take a quick look back at how technology innovations have worked their way into the classroom over the years. Play video.
DEVICE EVOLUTION SLIDES– chalkboard, projector, scantron, mimeograph, calculator, overhead, typewriter, early pc, now devices!That’s right, technology has changed over time, but we’re good at leveraging these new devices to our advantage. Integrating new devices into the way we teach and learn is nothing new. (START CLICKING THROUGH ) Look at some of the lovely pieces of technology that have had their place in our classrooms. My generation is particularly fond of the mimeograph!
PC SLIDE: Teachers have always looked for ways to engage – what motivates students to pay attention, work hard, talk about what they’re learning.
DEVICE SLIDE: Today, that means in-class hand-held devices. It means tablets, smartphones.
BYOD TSHIRT SLIDE: So technology in the classroom has changed. We’re educators. We get this. We know how to do this! Let’s talk about how to leverage these new technologies to improve the curriculum and enhance learning and make teaching fun!
THEY GET IT. THEY LIVE IT. SLIDE:Well the kids get it too. Today’s learners are:more self-directedbetter equipped to capture informationmore reliant on feedback from peersmore inclined to collaborateSo, the devices are in the room, what’s next?Content! Open Educational Resources.
For anyone who is new to the concept, Open educational resources (OER) are digital materials that can be re-used for teaching, learning, and research. They are made available for free through open licensing instead of copyright, which allows very flexible use and reuse of the materials.Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials that are freely available to use, remix, and redistribute. OER have Creative Commons licenses stating specifically how the material can be used, reused, adapted, and shared. (Wikipedia article) BUT, for OERs to be fully embraced in our schools they have to be far better at doing some key tasks/ they have to be better at doing some really important things. better than the printed textBetter than generic web searchBetter than a local network
So. Questions.How do I find stuffKnow its accurate and high quality?How do I organize and categorize it?What’s the deal with sharing?
Let’s start with quality.On Curriki, you will find two types of content, teacher contributed and partner contributed. Teacher contributed content is reviewed and rated by our Curriki Review Team – subject area experts who review content based on a rubric, which is published on curriki for you.Members also rate resources - similar to Yelp. Give a star rating and make comments. It ensures that educators have a voice in determining what’s high quality and what’s not. So you can be confident that the reviewed resources are high quality. Can’t get that by googling!There are many sources for free content on the web – you can go around to all of these individual sites that specific type of free content. Math videos, science lessons, etexbooks etc. So What Curriki does, is aggregate all of those sources so the highest quality is all in one place.
Curriki seeks the highest quality content from those sites – we have content partnerships with NROC, NASA, Khan Academy, Math for America, Lincoln Center Institute, and many more.
It’s phenomenal to see hundreds …thousands of rated resources right in front of you…none of the ads or noise on search engines…no irrelevant items in search results. You can see all the highest rated resources first! Then you can refine in just seconds.
It’s unbelieveably great!Way better than a generic search engine.Phenomenal for sharing & assigning. If you want to assign a resource to class…you can do that (show social tools)You want to tell parents to try this animated language activity with their first grader, you can do that!
It’s a wonderful way to get published. Not only can you share stuff with teachers you know personally, but you can publish your creations, publish your written project plans, units, entire courses to the global education community. This means a teacher in Berkley can use a lesson published in San Diego. A teacher in NY can find an algebra project published in TX. US MapA teacher in India can use a course published in the US. Globe
It means that schools, districts, regions can have free web space to collaboratively design & Publish curricula. http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Group_NassauBOCESGroup/