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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” “ OER , CARE , Stewardship, and the Commons” by “Econproph” Jim Luke. Government Will Travel to Latin America.”

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

For example, a student could be assigned a slide on a Class Google Slide show to share some work while other students and the teacher provide critique. Could Google Draw be used for a collaborative visual thinking activity such as Chalk Talk, or Zoom breakout rooms be used for online critique and revision?

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

NeverEndingSearch

The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information. What’s the evidence?

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Off to ALA and ISTE (and how to follow along when you?re #notat.)

NeverEndingSearch

These recognized sites fall into category areas such as digital storytelling, media sharing, manage and organize, as well as social media and communication. The difference now is that we are inundated with social media that makes it possible to disseminate “fake news” quickly and easily.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Speaking of Michigan State and Nassar, via The State News : “Original MSU alumni magazine leaked.” ” ClassDojo is now a full social media platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. Because “open.”).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on social media. The New York Times Magazine interviews the new Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Via WHIO : “ School social media director fired after correcting student’s misspelled tweet.”