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YouthLearn has compiled 100 "Big Things" (innovations, opportunities, challenges, heroes, etc.) that have had an impact on youth, education, and technology in the past 5 years.
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As interest in online learning among U.S. students continues to mount, the Florida Virtual School, one of the nation's largest institutions in support of online learning, has announced the creation of a new web-based forum dedicated to meeting the needs of online instructors. Organizers say monthly discussion sessions featuring some of the brightest minds in online learning will provide educators with an opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and build stronger online learning environments for K-12 students.
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A report from Princeton, N.J.-based ETS found that the majority of high school and college students lack the proper critical thinking skills when it comes to researching online and using sources. The tests measured students' abilities to overcome three challenges they typically have: identify trustworthy and useful info; manage overabundant information; communicate information effectively.
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The new site features a tutorial for teachers on conducting better Web searches. Other tools include Google Earth, three-dimensional mapping software based on satellite imagery; SketchUp, a 3-D software program that lets students design buildings and explore geometric concepts; Google Book Search, which finds books that match students’ search terms; blog and photo-sharing software; and word-processing applications that allow students to work simultaneously on the same document from different computers.
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As students continue to use and develop networked environments, it may become the case that the status of being admitted into a community by its members exceeds the credibility gained through “outside” peer review. As this process evolves, we may see a broader transformation in which learning becomes a process of participation in a community rather than of receiving knowledge from an “expert”.
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In what ways do digital technologies themselves affect credibility? I think the essential consequence is of increasing the diversity of credibility signals (both positive and negative, clarifying and obscuring). And at two levels--that of credibility of the content (whether a posting or about a person) and the credibility of the medium itself.
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Many individuals who are accessing information on the web have no experience in traditional skills of judgment and information aggregation (e.g., they are young). Most individuals are very unsophisticated in using online sources and don’t like to spend their entire lives online (e.g., they are old).
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The origin of information, its quality, its veracity are in many cases less clear than ever before. Moreover, the same wide scale access & multiplicity of sources that ensure vast info availability also make assessing the credibility of info accurately complex. Youth are talented & comfortable users of technology, but they may lack crucial tools that aid them to seek/consume info effectively
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While research on credibility and new media is burgeoning, extremely little of it focuses on any user groups younger than college students. Therefore, the goal of the volume is to fill this void by drawing out the research, policy, and educational implications of credibility for youth and learning as a way to set the agenda for future work in this area.
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Network and IT security is one of the most important ed-tech issues today. With this in mind, the editors of eSchool News have assembled this collection of stories and articles from the eSN archives to help you identify potential security risks and guide you when making purchases and setting policies.
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