 Yeah It's not quite how I do it in dance Oh, yeah, right, right, right. That's right and in the same or but in the same all right, thank you everyone and Welcome to our presentation today about the growing edges of primary secondary OER and open pedagogy research my name is dr. Connie Blumgren and I'm here with my Graduate students and colleagues, so we'll each introduce ourselves and provide our land acknowledgments So to keep it short I come from treaty seven in South of Red Deer all the way to the American border if you go by colonial markings But actually it goes right into the United States into Montana where I am very beautiful country And I love it so deeply. So thank you for being here today I'm Sarah Hammerstein. I'm an eddy candidate and I live in Denver, Colorado And that is the land that is the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne or Rappahoe and Ute nations and people So I recognize these indigenous people as the original stewards of the land in which I live and work My name is Jodi Barber and I am a second-year doctoral student I live in northern British Columbia where I teach secondary science and I live work and play on the Unseated Territory of the Gitsen and Wetsuit in nations Hello everyone. My name is Michael Pascovichis. I'm from Victoria, British Columbia And I live on the lands of the Lekwungen speaking people Songhees Wasanich and Esquimalt people and I am a professor in a faculty of education And moving towards supervising Graduate work and very interested in the work that's being done in open education so we wanted to bring forward some people that were interested in open educational resources open pedagogy and that growing edge of Research and the need for research to support policy understanding and also applied research for Practitioners in the field as scholar academics and as practitioners those Interrelated roles so my contribute contribution has been as part of my research and study leave this last year I Curated or asked or tapped on the shoulders of different people that I know from different networks To see if they were interested to contribute a chapter in a book That has a fairly straightforward title it's just Open educational resources for K to 12 classrooms. There's seven chapters and It goes really from the Alberta context to the regional sort of and then to the nationals in Canada because There is really very little OER happening in Canada or in Alberta There's a little pockets here and there and to help nurture those spaces I thought that a book that contributed to that knowledge would be useful and then the second part of the book is The next section where I went to sort of Widening out the circle. So there's a chapter there by Royce Kimmins in the United States and then also Barbara suits from K to 12 OER in Washington state same state where cable green is where there's been a lot of work in K to 12 our primary secondary education and then a very beautiful example from Norway with the NDLA and all their contributions of not just creating OER for teachers But having a really practical And in my opinion a very beautiful model that we could adapt and read Adjust for our different contexts. So I see the book as a contribution to that whole broader discussion of how can we have K to 12 done properly for different people in different parts of the world and Sarah So this is the title of my research proposal that I defended at the end of the summer And I'm in the midst of Applying for ethics and then I'll move on to data collection But I'm looking at open pedagogy OER an inactive curriculum in K12 classrooms And I'll be doing a hermeneutic phenomenology in addition to being an eddy student I am also a teacher librarian and I work in a middle school in Denver so I kind of a practitioner and then also a scholar and when I Started kind of my journey. I was thinking about OER and how it relates to K12 and of course as we've heard Through these days and and as I know K12 OER it's it's growing But it's pretty small the use of it and I thought as a librarian I could investigate how my teacher librarians are helping teachers and But it gets a little complicated when there's not that much to curate and and my teachers aren't using it and and so then I Kind of encountered open pedagogy in my doctoral studies and so I was looking at Haggerty's model of open pedagogy with her eight attributes and and working with teachers who are super creative and engaging creating engaging lessons for students that are very Student-centered and student voice and choice are really elevated and and I was seeing these Attributes of open pedagogy in these classrooms, right? But with without the open learning materials and so I was trying to put my mind together thinking like There's OER. There's open pedagogy like in higher ed. It seems like we have OER first and then maybe open pedagogy perhaps in K12 is it open pedagogy first and then OER like what's what's What's really the relationship here? But I got really excited when I when I encountered open pedagogy So then my thinking kind of branched to both and I thought well when I when I'm gonna do research I want to combine the two of them But there was still like a like a like a missing piece. I felt like I thought what's like what's the what's the story here? that I'm trying to tell and and what piece is missing and the spring and summer I I Branched out in my reading and I started looking at curriculum studies and curriculum is really the language of K to 12 Especially in the United at least in the United States and so there's really two schools of curriculum There's a much more kind of scripted version or this Tyler rationale where you start with objectives and and then you have like learning Activities and then then there's assessment, but there's also this other school that are the reconceptualists and These individuals are seeing curriculum is like embodied and it's an enacted experience And it's co-created between teacher and learner and learning materials and I encountered this design capacity for enactment framework by Matthew Brown and so this is a way to show how teachers are engaging with curriculum resources And as I'm looking at this and and reading it I'm thinking well This kind of is reminding me of the five R's of like how our teachers Modifying OER, but it's language of curriculum. It's not open language. And and then I Was reading about this is a study of mathematics curriculum by Jenner a milliard And she has this in active curriculum play framework. So there's tons of different curriculum. There's written curriculum. There's planned curriculum There's the official curriculum from the district or from the state and but this Enactive curriculum is what happens when a teacher Interacts with a student in the classroom with learning materials and everyone's contexts are coming together And I thought well, this is like the co-creation of learning happening here is really an active curriculum But yeah, like it's it's not open language. It's curriculum language But to me I was seeing all the ways that these pieces could connect and so I thought okay Here I can do a study of OER and open Pedagogy in K-12 classrooms and see if teacher experiences line up with what I'm imagining They might be in this inactive curriculum model And so I plan on interviewing K-12 teachers in both Colorado and Washington state So Colorado where I have contacts and Washington state, which is a forerunner And and kind of teachers all across the grade levels and different curriculum Just to see what their experiences are to capture their voices and to help better understand What's happening in those K-12 classrooms? And I think that's So and if anyone has any contacts, let me know Okay Yeah, so some pretty early on my journey with this Right now and what I've noticed so far is that K-12 OER use and OEP adaptation It's a really big topic, but not a ton of research and so I'm just gonna go for some of my observations And some of the questions I have now with a little bit of experience that I have At this point a little over a year into my doctoral journey So from the current viewpoint and personal experience and all the reading I've done OER is not Being well used in K-12 and and I know there are a lot of reasons for this I did a paper on this Earlier in the year and the feedback I got was time time time time nobody has enough time and Recognize that time is an issue, but I think I Think that it's not the only issue a lot of schools have textbooks and And while they're outdated, they're still just convenient to use if you've been using something for a long time you know, you just You're just gonna keep doing that teachers often don't know about OER repositories and and Those that have tried are often Disappointed, you know, it's not always easy to find information that that you can grab and fit into your work right away I Think that while many teachers are Comfortable sharing resources just within a district within a school. There's a bit of fear on sharing more globally and And I I think that a lot of teachers don't know about the five R as they don't know about open licensing It's just not even in In their sphere But but I think that the benefits of OER can't be ignored and reducing the cost of education for school districts is a part of that our school district had I don't know 15 to 20 year old science 9 textbooks and We were able to order one class set of new ones this year and we can order one class set next year and the year after until we have enough For for our school's needs That stimulated some thinking that I'm gonna get into a bit later But there's also the ability to contextualize and individualized learning and and in particular to Incorporate more local indigenous content and Also to create More inclusive education and as a person with a disability Inclusiveness is is close to my heart so So I have questions and I have things I wonder about at this point and I'll just go through a few of those Arise and who I put out a paper earlier this year where they teacher candidates were being instructed in OER use and Taking that out to mentor teachers in their practical and I thought that that was Really interesting and obviously had the potential to inform the practice of mentor teachers as well but what I wonder is if if Teacher candidates are are incorporating OER into their instructional design their practice At the front end of their career Then that's just becomes a part of everything that they do and seems to me that that would reduce the the time issue It wouldn't be an add-on anymore. It would just be a part of practice. So I think that's really interesting research Because my focus is K to 12 I I think about the fact that K is a long way from 12 and and how it is How does OER use and OEP open pedagogy? How does how does that change between K and 12? What does openness look like in primary grades? I think it looks more similar to higher education in grade 10 11 12 So I'm gonna kind of wonder about that I Wonder about where openness intersex privacy Privacy is a really big thing. We're talking about minors and putting putting their work out there sort of wondering, you know, where does where does that meet and And then what about parents like what do parents fit into this at all as well? We're talking about children that are six or seven or eight or even 15 For sharing I I wonder about professional development for teachers to learn how to Share in smaller local repositories and see if that spills over into into larger repositories and to help populate them And I guess finally I have a project coming up in response to our district's inability to acquire hard textbooks for the grade 9s is I have got a little innovation grant in our district to to try to create an Open science line textbook and the more sessions I've gone to while I've been here the more I think maybe that was a dumb idea Might be a bit more work than I'm anticipating, but I'm gonna dive in and do a whole bunch of learning for myself. So We'll see how that goes Anyway, that's just some of the things that I've been thinking about Early early in my journey, but I'm pretty excited about moving forward. Thank you So it's clear the enthusiasm and opportunities Enabled through open education are there and we we've experienced a lot of these in higher education and part of my work is in teacher education and so there's a perfect professional development opportunity to get an An opportunity to practice and integrate Open practices into teacher workflows. And so I've I've been in this job only for a few years now But I'm finding my way To think about the course I teach in technology integration and building in open literacies So the teachers start from a place of openness not have to figure it out as they as they get further down the road And we're just making small inroads now But and as has been said it's it's all new to future teachers and often technology is not their most their greatest interest but if you can bestow the possibilities and perhaps The ability to save a little bit of their time in those early years when they're trying to either fill in as a teacher on call or Start a new class. I think there's so much potential with open education So I'm really excited about it and I'm really excited to work with other teacher educators who work in this space Who are tackling the similar issues? We I think speak Different languages, but talk about the same things between K-12 and a higher education one of the key focuses of our District and perhaps our province is is around inquiry learning around letting learners Drive their learning based on their interests and finding ways to connect that to curriculum And you find learners much more engaged in their learning when they can make some choices about the topics and the Resources that they might want to bring into their to their learning So I feel that there's just a perfect match between inquiry learning and the potential offered by open education and just finding the ways to cross talk between what what our teachers are already doing and making sense of that to prepare future teachers to have an impact on on the practice, so we have Called for your input. There's a couple ways. We've asked for your input and I'm gonna make this quick because I want to get to questions if there are any we first Have found each other in the western Canada, but we're hoping to connect with more educators so there is a There's a form you can fill out It's a Google form if you don't like Google you can actually email. There's an email there that you can Join this group as well. We're not sure exactly what form it'll take But we'd like to just have the ability to connect with other people who are interested in open education in quite K-12 whether they're in service pre-service or Looking to make in rows in other ways. There's also attached to this presentation on the sched a padlet and So the questions in the padlet are looking at what opportunities and challenges. Do we see in K-12 open education? What are the significant research needs that would be really useful to have some input on so you can contribute to that Some people have already contributed and I just want to acknowledge Folks have said that there's an abundance of places to publish Openly and so there's places for teachers to locate and if they wish share which is a great Opportunity through Merlot and OER Commons in our context among others there's climate action OER is ready to go which are Absolutely essential in early grades to start thinking about and some of the challenges mentioned were the big tech permeation, I don't know about your district, but Organizations like Google Apple others have a lot of inroads already and can create some challenges to sharing and Some other contributions involved OER really meets local context as has been mentioned And so there's a huge opportunity to get local knowledge expressed through open educational resources to meet the needs of our local contexts, so we really invite you to consider those questions perhaps contribute to the padlet and join the network and We'd love to hear from you and love to take questions. I think if there are any Okay, I understand it's been a long day It's a little hard to see I'm sorry. Thank you Hello, thank you so much for all your information and presentations I'm Jenny Heyman. Probably everybody knows me because I ask a lot of questions I'm wondering if there is a strategy or a possibility of working with long time in service teachers and administrators in OER and in K-12 Because those folks would not have had as much exposure. I know there's great probably fodder and working with pre-service teachers but what do you think might be done with those folks who are Have more power actually Well, that's great question And my experience Jenny is anyone who's interested to just listen to what I have to say about open educational resources or open pedagogy I'm Going to help them understand. I what I have encountered and this was actually Christina Ishmael who works now I think she's the I'm not full. I think she's executive vice I'm not from the US. So I'm not too sure of her full title, but she's you know second or third person at the US Department of Education related to technology and openness and Christina told me and she's done a lot of All sorts of meet-up meet-ups throughout the US with all sorts of educators in the K-12 system and She said she quit using the word OER Because she said what I think happens is that people hear Education and they hear resources And they go oh, I know that that's my world like you know, I started out as a classroom teacher and then eventually move up to you know being principal or superintendent or even a minister of education and I really think that It's a it's a question of helping people understand awareness Before as part of right because we often want to run to the creation piece But it's also building awareness and Barbara suits from Washington State Also told me she said I will be doing OER awareness for the rest of my career Right because that's what she's doing right. It's just so I think it's finding the Those those sweet spot pockets of possibilities one thing that's nice about pre-service teachers Michael you'd probably have something to say if you want to go about this is that Pre-service teachers own their intellectual property So when they go in their practicum and they're teaching, you know learning many things Their intellectual property their lesson plans belong to them Whereas under Canadian copyright law as soon as you sign a contract with the school board unless otherwise Discussed or negotiated. I it's not that it's not that that's not the legal term But that's essentially the meaning under the Canadian copyright law is that you can have permission for open licensing, but it's a conversation that should be occurring between Yourself and your employer and their designate And so a classroom teacher and then it's also like well when do you create those classroom? Materials like is it you know if it's for a class that you're teaching But it's like next year and you're doing it during the summer on your own laptop Whose property is that right? It starts to become kind of a slippery kind of issue there. So It's about copyright literacy. It's about trying to help people who Have a have lots on their minds and also it's not a pressing in their It's not top of their mind right now in K to 12 mental health is a huge topic of course, you know trying to support students with any kind of diverse Learning needs, that's a huge topic and so it's really moving ourselves also from the closed copyright publishers way of thinking to You know where I always say what year is this? What year is this? It's 2023 people like wake up. We're almost a quarter of the way, you know into the 21st century And I have a friend who keeps saying oh, that's so last Century, oh, that's so last century and so that closed publishing model is so Last century so it's it's a long complicated story Obviously Jenny, but I just I just randomly try and plant seeds create cracks Plant seeds and hope that some of those little seedlings grow to be bigger and they do I do I feel really lucky to be in a small but pretty progressive school district up north and And I think having a superintendent and assistant superintendant buy-in is really important When I submitted a proposal for a Small grant to do the work with the grade 9 textbook and and incorporate our local Indigenous knowledge and all that They were jumping up and down with excitement And and I'm hoping that that'll filter down into more professional development at our school but At the same time if if you give somebody X something extra to do or learn you need to take something away And I don't I don't know what that other something is going to be or exactly what the process is But I think if you hire up you can start The better opportunities you have for trickle down I Come from the state of Colorado and and there's a very active Open education community there mostly for higher education But it is trickling down to the K to 12 space and just as an example I work for a very large school district to the to the west of Denver and They've just adopted a new math curriculum and I know that it's open But that has not been kind of what the school district has said anything about and the professional learning is not Structured towards OER and open pedagogy, which feels like a little bit of a missed opportunity But it's interesting to see how OER is, you know coming to coming to my state and in fact, it's already there but Just thinking through ways of like how do you you know make those cracks and plant those seeds and and I as a Library and I know that there are some teachers that are a little bit more forward thinking or will be willing to try new things and so it's that Knowing who to approach knowing who to come alongside Knowing who to walk with and then what kind of support that they'll need and so I'm kind of that Advocate at my at my building level at this point, but you know, maybe in the future I it can be an advocate at a different level So I will just thank everyone for your attention and your interest and that doesn't have to end here Certainly, you've got two graduate students who are going to be doing some a really exciting research and I see Joanna at the mic So let's go to that question if we'll just talk at nor quest maybe or later tomorrow. I've got some very yeah I'd love to talk more Yeah, thank you so much