Educational Concepts and Terms Teachers Need to Know

Legalities Regarding Educational Material

Bloom's taxonomy

Copyright

Creative Commons

COPA (Child Online Protection Act)

FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)

type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy and distribute a creative work

limit the use of child personal information by the operators of websites

free licenses for creators to use when making their work public

gives parents the right to access their children education records

Teachers use to assess students using different language

Assessment

Evaluation

Summative

Formative

monitors students learning/progress

evaluate student learning at the end of a unit

Ways teachers create lessons to teach

Lesson Plans

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Selection Criteria

Curation

Criteria teachers use to choose instructional content

Ex) Informational Websites: Teachers may look for websites that mainly consist of factual information rather than games or just pictures

Teachers create lesson plans around the content they have to teach so they can organize a schedule and know when to move on to the next unit

State Course of Study

Lesson plans often consist of Course of Study standards which vary by state. These standards align with the grade specific teaching content and are what teachers have to base their lessons around.

Teachers create a curated list of websites and material to look back on when teaching. Teachers can also provide their curations to students to use so they have plenty of resources to use.

Terms of Service

Legal terms written into most websites that explain the boundaries of users when using their website and its features. Teachers must make sure their lessons coincide with the terms.

Compare and Contrast Terms

Language Demand vs. Language Function

Technology Tools vs. Resources

Tools

Resources

Language Function

Langauge Demand

Hardware vs. Software

Hardware

Software

The academic language STUDENTS use in participating in learning

The ways TEACHERS incorporate academic language in their teaching to students

Websites teachers or students use to CREATE their own material for teaching/learning

Websites teachers or students can use to aid in their teaching or learning. Such websites are already created for these purposes.

PHYSICAL parts of computers that are developed in factories

The programs within the hardware which is developed by engineers

Open Educational Resources

Material teachers can use that are under different Creative Commons licenses and in the public domain. Can be used for teaching, learning, and research purposes

Mastery

When students master a concept, they fully understand the lesson and can put it into practice and use correctly.