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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. That was certainly the case in our experience. What’s the evidence? What do other sources say?

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The Business of Education Technology

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.” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment.

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The Politics of Education Technology

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Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. The Common Core. Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes – think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. Political correctness. Foreign students.