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School Librarians Team Up With Teachers to Create Freely Available STEM Lessons
School librarians and STEM teachers in seven New Hampshire school districts are working together to co-plan and share lessons as part of a program aimed at bridging the gap between librarians—and the resources they have access to—and STEM teachers, who are...
School Librarians and STEM in the Digital Age: Faculty Advance a New Program Integrating OER
A powerful shift is in progress where, increasingly, librarian expertise in inquiry, 21st learning skills, and information literacy is becoming critical to STEM learning and classrooms and to the development of cultures of inquiry that extend beyond the boundaries of...
School Librarians: Selecting the Best Anchor Text for STEM Learning
An anchor text is the central text around which a lesson or unit is built. This may be, for example, a narrative piece, a data set, or an image. Students across disciplines engage with this anchor text throughout a lesson or unit, using it as base upon which to...
The Well-Rounded Lesson: History and Common Core Math Come Together As Teachers, and Students, Collaborate
Try this teacher-created lesson on OER Commons: “Cross Curricular Approach to the Child Labor Practices of the 1800s and 1900s Industrial Revolution” Teachers embodying instructional leadership—this is the ultimate goal driving ISKME’s work bringing teachers together...
ISKME Calls on White House to Open Up Access to Federally Funded Educational Resources
Joins broad coalition in urging Administration to make OER part of next Open Government National Action PlanHalf Moon Bay, Calif. — Today, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), along with a broad coalition of more than 90...