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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

By using Google Drive or Archive.org , media can be made available for students to download offline, when they may be without a WiFi connection as well as for those students with limited data plans. Such media can be submitted to an e-portfolio or blog (e.g. ANDERSON, T (2003). Voice Recorder, Zoom.us , Skype).

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

Google and Facebook both announced that they would try to eliminate fake news from appearing in their result lists and newsfeeds by blocking fake news sources from using their ad networks. A Google reverse image search can help discover the source of an image and its possible variations. Fake news is not new. Some are born digital.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. E-Rate has been, since the origin of the fund in 1996, the main way in which schools and libraries were supposedly guaranteed “reasonable rates” on telecommunications services. million in E-Rate rebates.).