Side Note: This is dual blog post for my EdTech 357 course at Boise State University From the Teachers Pay Teachers website
"We believe that real teachers create the most relevant and engaging educational resources. Our open marketplace model supercharges resource quality, quantity, and availability. Bringing educators together forms a powerful community that shares best practices, raises the bar for all, and compensates our best curriculum developers (sometimes spectacularly). In the end, everyone wins, especially students. And that's what it's all about." http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/About-Us I am sure this post will not make me popular but I am not here to be popular. I am here to change education. I have a big problem with Teachers Pay Teachers. As a teacher, I know we are under paid and we don't usually have enough time to prep and plan for our lessons. So while the premise of teachers sharing the best work is ideal, paying for it is not. In this age of open curriculum and open education, I feel Teachers Pay Teachers contradicts this openness. While yes, it is good to make a little on the side, are we not hurting more students by keeping these resources behind the walled garden of TPT? If these teachers truly wanted to help more students, then why isn't their material in an open forum where more people can have access to it?
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Kaelyn B
7/11/2014 06:56:34 am
Great thoughts. One of the perks of being a connected educator is that you really don't need the TPT site. Fellow teachers of Twitter are always so willing to share.
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Me
7/19/2014 11:54:28 am
I agree completely Kaelyn. The more teachers share the better we all can be. Why does someone have to profit? If we all shared, we could get rid of textbooks all together and create a more dynamic learning environment.
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Stacie Barker
7/11/2014 12:45:21 pm
Interesting thoughts. I would love to have free access of all the great stuff on teachers pay teachers. However, I have never uploaded or sold anything on there, so I guess I can't argue the other side. I will just stick to downloading the "free" stuff on there.
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Me
7/19/2014 11:57:15 am
Hello Stacy,
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Bryan Wiedeman
7/14/2014 04:05:53 am
Hi George:
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Me
7/19/2014 12:03:52 pm
Bryan,
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