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Climate change resources

With all that is going on, I think that learning about the dangers of climate change has been slighted. 60 Minutes has had two recent segments relevant to climate change that educators wanting to discuss climate change might use in … Continue reading

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Internet archive scholar

Richard Byrne had a recent post describing the Internet Archive Scholar – a new project from the Internet Archive focused on scholarly publications. This is new resource is still under developed, described as as alpha, but it intends to cover … Continue reading

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Interactive Media Bias Chart

I have recommended the Ad Fontas media bias chart before, but with the election nearing I thought it worth a repeat. The chart has panels of individuals rate attributes of individual articles from a news source on multiple dimensions and … Continue reading

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Social Dilemma

The Social Dilemma is a recent Netflix documentary from Jeff Orlowski. The video explores digital social media services and processes those responsible for these services use to maximize the commitment of viewer attention and the negative consequences of these processes. … Continue reading

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Sharing a Wakelet Collection

Wakelet is a great free classroom tool for creating and sharing collections. These collections might be personal or group efforts and might be generated to serve a variety of educational goals. I have written about Wakelet previously. This effort is … Continue reading

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Technology in pandemic teaching

This opportunity requires immediate action if it sounds interesting. Justin Reich, author of “Failure to disrupt” (a book about why technology has not played a larger role in education) is offering a free presentation entitled – What the History of … Continue reading

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