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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

Edsurge

That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. A settlement that would have created a Book Rights Registry and made it possible to access the Google Books corpus through public-library terminals ultimately died, rejected by a federal judge in 2011.

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Google Adds New Classroom Features. Use Them Responsibly.

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All the MCU fans out there know that this phrase was first used in the 1962 Amazing Fantasy #15 issue and then later by Uncle Ben in the 2002 Spiderman movie. Google has added some new features to Classroom. Soon you’ll be able to keep your students focused by creating locked quizzes using Google Forms while in Classroom.

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Google Sites as Digital Portfolios

EdTechTeam

I decided to use Google Sites , since our school had adopted the Google Suite of apps and chromebooks. Jennifer Cauthers Mahopac High School Mahopac, NY Twitter: @cauthersj Jennifer has taught science since 1999 and has been a district technology leader since 2002. Most thought it would just be extra work.

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School of Dreams

A Principal's Reflections

After meeting my wife in 2002, I moved to Staten Island, NY and resided there for thirteen years. We have also used our Digital Practice Assessment (DPA) process to help them determine where they are at, but more importantly where they want to be for their learners. Now back to my story.

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The Connection Between “Lower” and “Higher” Level Thinking

The Principal of Change

Webb’s [2002] Depth of Knowledge model) than the lower ones. The best quote I have heard on this topic is from Yong Zhao: I have been criticized often for saying that “If you can google the answer to the question on the test, the question probably sucks.” Assessment often drives the teaching, not the other way around.

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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

The CoolCatTeacher

In 2002, Jon received the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching; and in 2010, he was a Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year. And so that's the big idea of mastery learning, is that if a student fails a test, right, so summative assessment, then they take it again until they reach mastery.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready.

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