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

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All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. These assessments might be used to engage learners in discussion before an inquiry. And they could be critical for baseline analysis of student skills and formative assessment.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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’” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The University of Phoenix ’s online enrollment plummets while Western Governors and Southern New Hampshire near 100,000 students as they vie to rule the roost.” A big maybe,” says New America.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued. And on and on and on.

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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”). ” Education Week also reports on a new study by Carol Dweck on poverty and “ growth mindset.” ” asks Phil Hill.