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Five Ways Silicon Valley is Changing Education
Eighth grade students at Presidio Middle School share an iPad while working on a lesson. There’s no argument that Silicon Valley startups have influenced how businesses operate. The fact that most...
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Last week’s post about how the Internet affects plagiarism brought up some interesting points of discussion. Readers are parsing the difference between copying information verbatim without citing the...
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If you’re still wondering about the implications of the effects of technology on learning, take a look at this brilliant video by Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropologist who studies the effects of...
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How to Keep Wikipedia Viable? Recruit College Students as Editors
By Anne Nelson From what I can tell, most of my fellow educators spend more time criticizing Wikipedia than engaging with it. The conversation tends to go round in a fairly tiresome circle: The first...
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Students Contribute to Wikipedia Content and Credibility
Flickr:Akhilsunnithan By Eleanor Yang Su, California Watch Teachers who once shunned the idea of students citing Wikipedia on class assignments now are embracing the Web site as a teaching tool....
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What Writing Wikipedia Entries Can Teach Students About Digital Literacy
Fake news has been, well, in the news a lot lately. But for the world’s largest crowdsourced encyclopedia, it’s nothing new. “Wikipedia has been dealing with fake news since it started 16 years ago,”...
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