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

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Facebook Argument : Students consider the relative strength of evidence that two users present in a Facebook exchange. News on Facebook : Students identify the blue checkmark that distinguishes a verified Facebook account from a fake one.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The Flipped Classroom. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not). The Compulsion for Data. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Indie Ed-Tech. The Business of Ed-Tech.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

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Take iPads , for example. Or the flipped classroom. Or MOOCs even. In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus VR , Google released its Cardboard viewer, and Playstation announced it was working on a VR gaming headset – these have all been interpreted in turn as signs that virtual reality will soon be mainstream.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The Flipped Classroom". There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president.

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Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review

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Here we are with a President-Elect – a reality TV star – who has been supported by white nationalists, the KKK, Wikileaks, trolls, and Peter Thiel, who election was facilitated through a massive misinformation campaign spread virally through Facebook. Beyond the MOOC. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Indie Ed-Tech.

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