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Isn’t it time to stop Wikipedia shaming?

NeverEndingSearch

Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions. Student simulation tasks (RSIC study). Wikipedia: Helpfulness vs. citability across the grade-level cohorts (RSIC Study).

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Learning Revolution Free Events - Hack Education with Audrey Watters - Common Sense Media's Graphite - @coolcatteacher Vicki Davis

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

You can keep up with ALA and other library-related news and information by subscribing to the free award-winning weekly e-newsletter AL Direct at [link]. First, you can discover new tools rated for learning. Second, you can rate and review tools, sharing views and tips on how you’ve used them with students.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

." Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Technology switch leaves some upset | Columbia Daily Tribune → Battle High School students and teachers have had iPads since the school opened in 2013. Studies are always helpful, but this should already be understood. Nonetheless, internet filters represent terrific security theater.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Please join us for the third annual global conversation about the future of libraries: October 18-19, 2013, [link]. The conference is once again being held entirely online around the clock in multiple languages and time zones. We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. Yildiz, Faculty Come take a tour!

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. This is a great opportunity to share your work or ideas!

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

NeverEndingSearch

And certainly not as a one-of, checklist type of lesson for a 9th grade social studies teacher in September. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit and Tumblr played huge roles in disseminating political information during the past election season. A May 2016 Pew Research Center study found that a majority of U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2013, 3D printer manufacturer MakerBot launched its MakerBot Academy with a goal “to put a MakerBot Desktop 3D Printer in every school in America.” They’re distracting others. They perform poorly on end-of-semester standardized tests.

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