Edutech

education acumen

http://www.educationacumen.com/a-different-way-to-multiply/

I like the common core. Compared to the MA Frameworks the Math standards are a little bit better and the ELA standards are way better. "Using the Common Core State Standards as a compass to guide" is what we as teachers have always used standards for. I see the quest to produce "all of the lessons and practice" as problematic.

To me it is the 'problematic', the automatic software produced practice problems, that is the problem. Let me digress. When I had had enough of terrible administrations and stopped teaching I thought that maybe I'd find some innovation in the edutech sector. I identified companies that I thought were innovative and got jobs doing things very similar to Education Acumen's opportunities in algorithm production and standards based curriculum development. I did it for math, science, history and humanities, targeting a particular standard like 6.ns.2.a and producing content the the 'engine' could swallow.

I started to wonder what was so innovative about this approach? Wasn't it just

OER Open Educational Resources

Courses:

• http://www.oercommons.org/courses/humanities-2-us-antebellum-america-to-the-great-migration/view
• http://www.oercommons.org/courses/humanities-4-world-1500-present/view
• http://www.oercommons.org/courses/humanities-3-us-reconstruction-to-present/view

screencasting with ipad

• http://www.explaineverything.com/ee-showcase.html
• replay now

links to people doing interesting thing in educational technology

edtech

• http://jimgroom.org/bavawiki/index.php?title=Bavawiki_home

LMS's

• canvas (open source)
• agilix
• angel
• blackboard
• D2L
• e-college
• moodle
• sakai (open source)
• time cruiser
• webCT

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