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Digital literacy vs. Computer literacy: Students need to develop both

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Students are bad at Google search. It is a common complaint that students perhaps over-rely on Google, and are not familiar with, or used to using, alternative search engines and databases. However, the ERIAL project — a two-year anthropological study — discovered that students also fail at using Google.

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Three Things Teachers Need to Spot—and Stop—Plagiarism

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Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. Teachers’ options include checking for plagiarism manually or using time-saving software designed for this very purpose. Doing this manually involves selecting pieces of text and using Google search to identify possible matches.

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What Will Online Learning Look Like in 10 Years? Zoom Has Some Ideas

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Zoom is actually a decade old, and the first conferences launched in 2012, limited to a mere 15 participants. That’s mainly because Zoom’s open software developer kit—or SDK—lets third-party companies build their own apps—and existing apps include icebreaker games and even a Kahoot integration.

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?Updates, Upgrades and Overheard: What Was Unveiled at ISTE 2017

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After making a few rounds in the behemoth expo hall, we’ve rounded up the ones that made our ears perk up and what edtechies should look out for: Big news from the blue chips OGLING GOOGLE UPDATES: With over 70 million G Suite for Education users, Google’s education tools dominate U.S. classrooms. MICROSOFT CLASSROOM IS NO MORE.

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The 5th ‘C’ of 21st Century Skills? Try Computational Thinking (Not Coding)

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Here’s what Google autocomplete shows when you type “computational.” (You In 2012, the U.K. Instead of playing with or manipulating pre-developed software simulations of scientific phenomenon, create (program) computational models and simulations to study and interrogate phenomena. You can try it for yourself!) Social Science.

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How AI Will Save Education

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While rough " deepfake " videos have been around for several years, the proliferation of video manipulation that appear real enough to fool viewers really shifted into high gear in 2019 with the launch of multiple AI open-source software and mobile apps. (On A quick Google search resulted in no immediate hits of others writing such an essay.

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Sal Khan: Test Prep Is ‘the Last Thing We Want to Be’

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He’s started working with more schools and districts—instead of reaching students mainly at home—and has partnered with assessment groups, such as the College Board and, most recently, the NWEA for personalized test prep materials. The latter group administers the MAP Assessment—a test designed to measure growth in reading and math.