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

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SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. Beyond the Bubble History Assessments.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). Siegler: “ The End of the Library.” The Internet has “replaced the importance of libraries as a repository for knowledge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Venture capitalist, supervillain, and Facebook investor and board member Peter Thiel spoke Thursday night. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ’” “ Library of Congress wracked by DNS attack,” FCW reports. Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).