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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

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. “I can’t speak for other companies, but I have a lot of confidence in the reliability of our online assessments. Pearson was one of the companies, along with Apple, that was faulted as the Los Angeles Unified school district’s 1-to-1 iPad program, faced technical breakdowns and backlash.

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

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All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. The iPad would solve that,” he said. Bill Gates wouldn’t let his kids have cellphones. Alexa at School. “Do

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