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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Although no doubt, Microsoft, now the owner of Minecraft, would like us all to repeat that particular storyline.)

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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.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

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Pokemon Go : “Why Pokemon Go shows the future of learning gamification,” according to Education Dive at least. Or MOOCs even. Despite headlines claiming, for example, that “ Anybody can now buy Microsoft’s $3,000 HoloLens ,” not everyone and not every school can afford to do so.) Bonus: “ 5.3

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “Anybody can now buy Microsoft ’s $3,000 HoloLens ,” says Techcrunch. MOOCs, CAI, and now this. ” “Why Pokemon Go shows the future of learning gamification,” according to Education Dive. “Anybody.”