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Play Library Santa: Sharing gifts of digital media

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This year, I’ve found myself giving many of them a rather unintentional gift–an introduction to their public libraries’ digital media collections. I no longer subscribe to print magazines because of my public library’s access to RBDigital. I propose that after dinner, we have some library fun.

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Resources for learning at home while we’re keeping each other safe

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And, this may be the very right time to make sure we spread the word about both our own and our public library colleagues’ digital media collections. I no longer subscribe to print magazines because of my public library’s access to RBDigital. Here’s a remix a post I shared a little while back.

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

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6) (Note: Most of these tasks could authentically be taught in our libraries during the natural course of any inquiry project.). Consider this results of this report in the context of with the decline of the newspaper industry also documented by recent Pew Research Center data. Students can benefit from these tips too. Remember Sandy?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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This is really similar to the work I do mapping the relationships – financial and otherwise – among various players in the ed-tech industry. The New York Times Magazine interviews the new Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Via The New York Times : “ Big Ten Universities Entering a New Realm: E-Sports.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” asks New York Magazine. ” The story contains some machinations at the Department of Education in which the White Hous e tried to fire a Jeb Bush-supporting staffer. Ed-Tech Magazine asks “How Diverse Is the Higher Ed IT Workforce ?” ” asks Chester E. (National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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million gift from the Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries , a well-known opponent of government spending on things like public education (among other things). Via Zion Market Research : “ Massive Open Online Course Market : Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016-2024.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via E&E News : “ Cabinet heads told to praise Paris exit. Meanwhile on Campus… “ Here’s How Higher Education Dies – A futurist says the industry may have nowhere to go but down. Via Philadelphia Magazine : “This Quaker Sex Ed Teacher Says Your Kids Need to Be Porn-Literate.”