Presentation for SAANYS & NYSCATE Leadership Summit, March 31, 2014

1. Ditching Textbooks for Digital Curriculum
Andrea Tejedor
tejedor.andrea@gmail.com
@astrategicshift

2. What’s on the Agenda?
• Introduction
• 21st Century Skills & the Common Core
• Open Education Resources
• Web-based Tools & Resources
• Technological Innovation, Copyright & Alternatives

3. Ditching Textbooks for a Digital Curriculum
OER
Web-based
Tools
Digital
Media
Locate
Create
Mix & Re-mix

4. 21st Century Skills
Information Literacy
Access and Evaluate Information
• Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)
• Evaluate information critically and competently
Use and Manage Information
• Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand
• Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources
• Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the
access and use of information
How does this connect to the Common Core Standards?

5. Experimentation in Our Schools
• Nook Colors 2010 – today
• Integrated Science Curriculum
• PNWBOCES Integrated Social Studies
• Discovery Education

6. Open Educational Resources
An open textbook is an integrated course-
associated learning tool that is in the public domain
or has been open-licensed by the copyright holder
to permit re-use without the necessity of asking
permission of the copyright holder. Open textbooks
improve learning and teaching by freeing
instructors from constantly seeking permission.
Open textbooks are free or inexpensive on the web
and modestly priced for downloads, use on
eReaders, or in bound format.

7. Open Educational Resources
Textbooks
• Project Gutenberg
• Flexbooks
• ManyBooks
• EBOOKEE
• College Open Textbooks
• Textbook Revolution
• Google Books
• Open Access Textbooks
• The Orange Grove
• Flat World Knowledge
• Community College Open
Textbook Consortium
• A First Course in Linear
Algebra
• Connexions
• OpenStax

8. Open Educational Resources
Content Aggregators
• Merlot
• Connexions
• OER Commons
• World Lecture Hall
• World Lecture Project
• Internet Archive
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9. Web-Based Tools & Resources
Resources
• Discovery Education
• Integrated Science
• PNWBOCES Integrated Social Studies
• YouTube
• TeacherTube
• Khan Academy
• Knowmia

10. Web-Based Tools & Resources
Tools
• Teacher Websites
• AuthorStream
• SlideShare
• 9Slides
• SlideRocket
• LessonPaths
• Buncee
• EdPuzzle
• Edynco
• BiteSlide

11. A Re-mix Culture
• New media created from old media
• Copy, Transform, Combine
• Derivative nature of creativity
• Kirby Ferguson, Everything is a Remix

12. Creative Commons Presents:
“Get Creative”

13. Let’s take a closer look
Licenses:

14. Choosing a License
• CC tool to help you define the license

15. I found it on the Internet!
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• No one cares what I do with it, right?
• Exceptions
– Public Domain
– Fair Use
• Small portions of multimedia
• No agreement on images
– Digital Millennium Copyright Act
– TEACH Act

16. A new type of practice
Evolution rather than revolution

17. The ultimate architecture of participation
• Web 2.0 emphasizes content creation over content
consumption
• Information is liberated from corporative control – i.e.
traditional content owners or their intermediaries
• Anyone can create, assemble, organize (tag), locate and share
content

18. Conflict with copyright?
• Simpler tools = easier violation of copyright

19. As content creators
• Opportunity to construct and organize knowledge
• Increasingly independent learners
• Active knowledge generators
• Manage their own learning experience

20. Increased user contribution
Yields:
• Growth of collective intelligence
• Re-usable dynamic content
Promotes:
• Sense of community
• Empowerment & ownership for users

21. Ditching Textbooks for Digital Curriculum
Andrea Tejedor
tejedor.andrea@gmail.com
@astrategicshift