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Exploring news visually

NeverEndingSearch

News Explorer presents and connects 300,00 articles a day from 70,000 sources including newspapers, radio and Twitter–visualizing this vast textual content into entities and concepts. National tabs allows for comparisons of coverage across countries.

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Scientists and social media: an important new study

Bryan Alexander

To some degree that population is not growing : “the frequency of blogging is also about the same as in 2009, based on the measure where a trend is available” (To be fair, there’s another, tentative fifth of scientists: “Another fifth of AAAS scientists (20%) do so, but only “rarely.””). ” Good!

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with 'e's

By comparison, in its technology supported multiple formats, contemporary distance education is much more sophisticated. Teaching en masse has emerged as a significant trend because of a lessening need to create co-present learning environments such as classrooms and lecture halls. We have come a long way.

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News literacy tools: Advice, four sites and a new app (Swiipe)

NeverEndingSearch

Among the ten key trends Pew researchers gathered from among their research reports on social and news media were: Use of mobile devices for news continues to grow. So, let’s work with the data to improve access, quality, and literacy. A new feature alerts users of trending news from the past 48 hours. Search the News.

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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. Claims on Twitter : Students read a tweet and explain why it might or might not be a useful source of information. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Via the Future of Privacy Forum : “ Law Enforcement Access to Student Records : What Is the Law?” “ Hacked Twitter Accounts a New Headache for Schools,” Education Week’s Ben Herold reports.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

One of the challenges of writing this series – and trust me, there are many – is separating my analysis out into ten articles that name ten distinct “trends.” But when trying to write about ten “trends,” it’s evident: everything overlaps. The politics overlap with privacy.