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Plagiarism Checkers: Changing the Writing Process

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Do they research and cite sources differently, and does their understanding of academic integrity change? Just as computers replaced typewriters and Internet searches replaced trips to the library, plagiarism checking has changed the writing process, once again by significantly improving it.

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Why the Boldest Ideas in Education Come From Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

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“Transforming misery into agency” is among the visionary goals that co-founder Wisdom Amouzou has for The HadaNõu Collective , which currently operates centers in public high schools that “map authentic experiences to academic standards.” Literator.

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How Technology Should Have Already Changed Your Teaching

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But deep integration of technology in learning should–ideally anyway–make learning mobile–always-on, asynchronous and self-directed access to both content and collaborators. In the library, down the hall, from any room in the school, from any school in the district. Or their extended family. Anybody but you.

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Change The Conversation–It’s Not About The Thinking

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Content-based academic standards. Mobile learning. For example, I love the idea of mobile learning, so I attach positive feelings to it that can lead me to cognitive distortions downstream, where I oversimplify it’s function, or catastrophize our continued misunderstanding of its potential in education. Use of data.