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Allsides: Curating diverse perspectives (or looking at news from most sides now)

NeverEndingSearch

The see news ratings for each story and can filter for perspective and trace a story back in time. The AllSides Bias Rating , reflects. New source bias ratings. That produces a fair, verifiable bias rating. I see rich opportunities for librarian-led conversations about these ratings. Do you agree with the rating?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Speaking of openwashing : “ Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core , Rise of ‘Open’ Resources.” ” From Mindwires Consulting: “ e-Literate Big Picture: LMS.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Private Colleges’ Tuition-Discount Rate Hits All-Time High.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” You’re definitely not making school even more awful.