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OER for EDC 3100 Social Science in Childhood Education
For this project I worked on redesigning EDC 3100 Social Science in Childhood Education to become a Zero Textbook Cost Course. The course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the standards, curricula, and methods of teaching social studies in a childhood setting. The students learn pedagogical strategies and develop critical thinking skills concerning curriculum content and the creation and implementation of classroom activities. One of the most interesting challenges about the materials used in this course is that we have to address pedagogical considerations and methods for teaching social studies, as well as some of the content covered in social studies. In addition, it was essential to include multimodal materials to make the…
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Final Reflection
This semester, I worked on a course conversion for EDC 2400: Teaching Emergent Bilinguals. One of the biggest challenges was to examine the wide range of materials that are available online and select them to ensure that not only do they address the content of the course, but also that they present multiple means of representation, giving learners various ways of accessing new content. As I redesigned the course syllabus, I included materials that are to be assigned as homework or used during class, as well as additional resources that might be useful for students and other instructors. I included videos, blogs, podcasts, and articles that can be accessed through…
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