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A letter of support

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These new collections support new literacies and leverage the new bounty of open educational resources (OER) supported by the White House’s #GoOpen initiative, as well as streamed media, and software for creating and sharing powerful, effectively, ethically produced digital stories. We guide learners in inquiry.

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Open Library gets even more open

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This wiki approach to a catalog encourages new information as well as corrections from the user community. Preview, Google eBooks or Free Google eBooks titles can be embedded. Recent enhancements allow for even more openness. Full-text search. This works for any books with any level of content available.

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

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You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.