Thursday, July 16, 2020

Free, open digital resource in U.S. history improves access, promotes viewpoint diversity - David Bobb, Education Dive

Whatever a school's learning environment is at the start of the new school year, a curriculum that is expensive, inflexible, or hard to navigate won't get used. Just ask a teacher about how they use their instructional tools in the time of COVID-19. You'll learn a lot about entrepreneurship.  Teachers' entrepreneurial ways long precede the coronavirus. As Newsela reported in October 2019, administrators in social studies said that teachers used their prescribed textbook half the time. In that same national survey, however, teachers revealed that they use the assigned textbook only one-fifth of the time.
https://www.educationdive.com/spons/free-open-digital-resource-in-us-history-improves-access-promotes-viewp/581072/