OERs

Educators are lucky to live in a time when there is significant access to online educational resources. One of the biggest challenges is working through the amount of resources available to ensure that the resources being selected are high quality, rigorous, aligned to our standards, and not stolen from other copyrighted works. Educational blogger Jennifer Gonzalez writes about an interview with OER enthusiast Karen Vaites during which they discuss OERs (Open Educational Resources). I encourage you to check it out here:  https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/open-educational-resources/

Recommended links copied from her blog can be found below (pulled from Kim Marshall's recent summary in his weekly Memo).

Enjoy your explorations! 

            Vaites and Gonzalez recommend two platforms that do a good job curating and rating supplement-level resources:

-    Amazon Inspire – https://www.amazoninspire.com

-    Knovation – https://www.knovationlearning.com

For materials at the macro, curriculum-level end of the matrix, they recommend:

-    EL Education Language Arts – https://bit.ly/2XXJO8J

-    Core Knowledge Language Arts – https://www.coreknowledge.org/curriculum/language-arts/

-    Eureka Math – https://greatminds.org/math

-    Open Up Resources Math – https://openupresources.org/math-curriculum/

They also list several “eagerly-anticipated” curriculum packages for which positive reviews are anticipated:

-    MVP Math – https://www.mathematicsvisionproject.org

-    Bookworms K-5 Reading & Writing –

https://openupresources.org/bookworms-k-5-reading-writing-curriculum/

-    Illustrative Mathematics High School – https://bit.ly/2HUWgxq

-    Illustrative Mathematics Elementary – https://bit.ly/30iCt0F

And two additional options:

-    Core Knowledge History and Geography –

https://www.coreknowledge.org/curriculum/history-geography/

-    Core Knowledge Science – https://www.coreknowledge.org/curriculum/science/

“A Closer Look at Open Educational Resources” by Jennifer Gonzalez and Karen Vaites in The Cult of Pedagogy, June 18, 2019, https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/open-educational-resources/

Marshall Memo 794, July 8, 2019