In this Webinar Panel Discussion, hear members of the ISKME team and consultants working on the IMLS STEM OER project, "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (#slasl) discuss rationales and benefits of OER in the context of educator professional learning, as well as related to issues around digital equity for all learners.
ISKME's OER Commons Teacher Training Initiative offers teachers a collaborative professional development model centered on engagement with Open Educational Resources (OER). The OER Commons Teacher Training Initiative is rooted in the idea that equitable access to high-quality education is a global imperative. Open Educational Resources, or OER, offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning through accessible content, and importantly, through embedding participatory processes and effective technologies to engage with learning for all.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how I could incorporate video into my own learning processes, and wondered, if I were to participate in the ISKME GoPro Learning Challenge, what would I want to create? I looked back to the very first time I really started using video in my daily life, and, surprise surprise, it was to create a teaching tool for myself.
I’m a dancer, and for years I’d practiced dancing in my bedroom, sometimes in front of a mirror. But I’d never recorded myself dancing. Once I did, I realized it could have a tremendous impact on my skill level as a dancer. Especially when preparing for a performance, the videos enabled me to see my weaknesses and memorize choreography more readily.
My great idea is to use GoPro to record myself and my fellow students as we learn new choreography, and to share those videos with each other and with our teacher so we can track and measure our progress, and receive personalized feedback.
Using a GoPro to engage students in lower elementary grades in literacy and geography.
Recorded webinar session from March 30, 2016, presented as a professional learning component to STEM teacher and school librarian participants of the IMLS funded School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning (#SLASL 2016) project. Webinar #2: Text-based Questioning
The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project, begins Year 3 with North Carolina school librarians and the project team, January 11, 2017 to get an overview of the project, OER Commons, and Academy pre-assignments.
Recorded webinar session from March 30, 2016, presented as a professional learning component to STEM teacher and school librarian participants of the IMLS funded School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning (#SLASL 2016) project. Webinar #3: Collaborative Implementation
The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project, begins the Year 3 K-12 fellowships with NH school librarians and STEM teachers on February 2 and 4, 2017.
Recorded webinar session from March 2, 2016, presented as a professional learning component to STEM teacher and school librarian participants of the IMLS funded School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning (#SLASL 2016) project. Webinar #1: Selecting Standards & Creating Learning Objectives.