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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

Hack Education

Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. We do not have to buy new stuff faster than we’ve ever bought new stuff before in order to be “future ready.” John Logie Baird demonstrated a working television system in 1926. And the Internet?

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience.