Edublocks
EduBlocks is a free tool by Anaconda that helps anyone learn how to code with text-based languages like Python or HTML using a familiar drag-and-drop blocks system
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CodeHS
Database Tool
An sqlite tool to emulate the gcse query screen
Boolean Logic
Brilliant App
Guided interactive problem solving that’s effective and fun. Try thousands of interactive lessons in math, programming, data analysis, AI, science, and more.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Find our free K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum, reviews of popular edtech apps, tips on teaching responsible AI use, and resources for protecting student privacy and online safety.
Machine Learning algorithms for beginners (Slow to load)
10 Popular And Most Used Machine Learning Algorithms Explained for Beginners using Infographics with Python Code and Video Tutorials.
RESOURCE: Draw Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Painlessly
Quick and simple free tool to help you draw your database relationship diagrams and flow quickly using just keyboard
Databases Unit
Fostering learning in a world of technological distractions
Classroom policies on technology are needed now more than ever as students go from one reel or TikTok to another.
free-programming-books/books/free-programming-books-langs.md at main · EbookFoundation/free-programming-books
:books: Freely available programming books. Contribute to EbookFoundation/free-programming-books development by creating an account on GitHub.
Smartphone policies in schools Rahali et al
The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
The Case Against Student Use of Computers, Tablets, and Smartphones in the Classroom
Leadership Lessons: How Small Wins Help Reverse Low Morale – TCEA TechNotes Blog
Low morale isn’t just a vibe—it’s a leadership issue. Learn how small wins and smart feedback loops can help reverse low morale on your team. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.
UC San Diego Reports 'Steep Decline' in Student Academic Preparation - Slashdot
The University of California, San Diego has documented a steep decline in the academic preparation of its entering freshmen over the past five years, according to a report [PDF] released this month by the campus's Senate-Administration Working Group on Admissions. Between 2020 and 2025, the number o...
Finding Quality OER Made Easy – TCEA TechNotes Blog
Finding good quality OER is the key to a successful transition to the use of these free, open instructional materials. Look no further for a place to start. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.
New OER ELA Curriculum – TCEA TechNotes Blog
Take a look at the new OER curriculum available for elementary ELA. It has tons of resources in both print and digital formats and it's free! Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.
OER Implementation in Six Steps – TCEA TechNotes Blog
Is your district considering the use of Open Educational Resources? OER implementation can be simple if you follow these six steps. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.
Why and How El Paso ISD Went Open – TCEA TechNotes Blog
El Paso ISD is a pioneer in the use of Open Educational Resources. Learn how and why they went down this path in this guest post by Tim Holt. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.
TeachOER
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that have been released into the public domain or are under a Creative Commons license. OER can be reused, re-purposed, and “remixed” to better suit the user’s needs. The affordances of the open license are often referred to as the 5R permissions: the rights to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute these materials.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that have been released into the public domain or are under a Creative Commons license. OER can be reused, re-purposed, and “remixed” to better suit the user’s needs. The affordances of the open license are often referred to as the 5R permissions: the rights to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute these materials.
LibGuides: Introduction to Open Educational Resources: About OER
Open educational resources (OER) are free teaching and learning materials that are licensed to allow for revision and reuse. OER can be fully self-contained textbooks, videos, quizzes, learning modules, lesson plans, syllabi, worksheets, data, and more. The benefits of using OER in your courses include improved student engagement and success, immediate and equitable access to resources, cost savings for students, flexible and high-quality learning materials that can be adapted to fit your individualized curriculum, and professional contributions to teaching and learning in your field.
Other open educational practices, such as open pedagogy, can result in the creation of OER.
Open educational resources (OER) are free teaching and learning materials that are licensed to allow for revision and reuse. OER can be fully self-contained textbooks, videos, quizzes, learning modules, lesson plans, syllabi, worksheets, data, and more. The benefits of using OER in your courses include improved student engagement and success, immediate and equitable access to resources, cost savings for students, flexible and high-quality learning materials that can be adapted to fit your individualized curriculum, and professional contributions to teaching and learning in your field.
Other open educational practices, such as open pedagogy, can result in the creation of OER.
Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): What are Open Education Resources?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials--digital or print that are in the public domain or have been released under an open license that allows no-cost access, use adaptation, redistribution by others with limited or no restrictions.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials--digital or print that are in the public domain or have been released under an open license that allows no-cost access, use adaptation, redistribution by others with limited or no restrictions.
LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Finding OER
In these repositories, you can find OER created by others and ready for your use or adaptation, including textbooks, lesson plans, syllabi, videos, images, and more. Browse these repositories by subject or search for materials using relevant keywords.
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY OER REPOSITORIES
OER Commons: One of the largest OER repositories, which covers multiple disciplines and allows for sorting by education level, reuse options, and by standard OERTX: OER repository from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board MERLOT II: This repository offers a wide range of disciplines and variety of material types OASIS: A search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier by searching multiple sources for OER and other open content at once. OASIS currently searches for open content from 79 different sources and contains approximately 330,000 records. OER Metafinder: Simultaneously searches multiple repositories, could give you good ideas of other repositories to look in
In these repositories, you can find OER created by others and ready for your use or adaptation, including textbooks, lesson plans, syllabi, videos, images, and more. Browse these repositories by subject or search for materials using relevant keywords.
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY OER REPOSITORIES
OER Commons: One of the largest OER repositories, which covers multiple disciplines and allows for sorting by education level, reuse options, and by standard
OERTX: OER repository from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
MERLOT II: This repository offers a wide range of disciplines and variety of material types
OASIS: A search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier by searching multiple sources for OER and other open content at once. OASIS currently searches for open content from 79 different sources and contains approximately 330,000 records.
OER Metafinder: Simultaneously searches multiple repositories, could give you good ideas of other repositories to look in
OER Commons
OER Commons is free for everyone, forever. We offer tailored and context-specific services for individual institutions, consortia, and organizations looking to have a more intentional impact. As a nonprofit, we're first and foremost committed to our mission of participatory, equitable, and open education for all. These at-cost services help us further our mission in a sustainable way.
OER Commons is free for everyone, forever.
We offer tailored and context-specific services for individual institutions, consortia, and organizations looking to have a more intentional impact.
As a nonprofit, we're first and foremost committed to our mission of participatory, equitable, and open education for all.
These at-cost services help us further our mission in a sustainable way.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
OER “are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”
OER “are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”
The Essential Role of a Statewide Open Education Resource (OER) Repository – TCEA TechNotes Blog
The Essential Role of a Statewide Open Education Resource (OER) Repository
OpenStax Provides High-Quality OER for Texas Schools – TCEA TechNotes Blog
OpenStax Provides High-Quality OER for Texas Schools
FlexBooks | CK-12 Foundation
CK-12 FlexBooks are fully customizable, digital textbooks which offer the best content for students and teachers. Viewable on Chromebooks, laptops, tablets, smartphones or desktops, FlexBooks are standards-aligned and ready to be localized to engage students.
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.
Using Hexagons to Build Critical Thinking Skills
There’s real science behind a popular discussion activity called hexagonal thinking routines, developed and made popular by former teacher Betsy Potash.
It’s more than an engagement strategy. It helps students to engage in productive struggle that doesn’t even look like struggle at all to them. It also helps build
conceptual understanding as students are asked to make connections between big ideas.
Often used in ELA, it’s helpful in any subject, including math and science.