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Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI

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Back at ALA Midwinter, I was honored to present on LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel , with fellow panelists Kate Tkacik, Suzanne Wulf, Becky Yoose, James Neal and Cynthia Dudenhoffer. Each of us was initially assigned two trends to explore and discuss. I thought I’d break my own two ish trends and resources into two posts.

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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Speaking of child exploitation, this via The Financial Times : “ Apple’s iPhone X assembled by illegal student labour.” The business of OER. From investors Chian Gong and Jennifer Carolan, writing in Edsurge : “ Spotting the 2017 Trends That Fuel Edtech Innovation and Investments.” ”). .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Among the new features: facial recognition to unlock the new iPhone. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. ” (You can bet that “ fake news ” is going to be one of this year’s “ top ed-tech trends.”).