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Young news consumers have trouble distinguishing credible sources from unreliable ones, according to a new report.

http://www.futurity.org/fake-news-literacy-young-people-1303892-2/…

If you use an iPad (or, less likely, an iPhone) for business presentations, you may well have run into storage issues because it’s already full of music or other files. If so, it’s worth looking at this neat accessory …

Instead of ranking each of the fifty tools on this list in order, I have them organized into three general groups: Useful, Good, and Excellent. The “Excellent” tools are added to the “All-Time” list mentioned previously. Here are my …

Digital classroom and/or paperless classroom is a relatively new concept that revolves around the exclusive use of digital tools and web technologies to not only replace traditional pen and paper ways of teaching and learning but, more importantly, transform …

From class-based hashtags to office hours, more educators are getting the most out of 140 characters.

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2016/08/3-ways-college-professors-use-twitter…

A two-year study by researchers at the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern California shows that exposure to music and music instruction accelerates the brain development of young children in the areas responsible for language …

EduOpen is a new Italian MOOC provider that launched earlier this year in April 2016. Class Central spoke with Prof. Tommaso Minerva from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) to learn more about EduOpen.

https://www.class-central.com/report/eduopen-italian-mooc-provider/…

With all these tools to choose from, how can you stay on top of the latest and greatest? Keep reading to see the full list  with all of 2017’s best social media tools.

https://blog.bufferapp.com/new-social-media-tools-2017…

One of the reasons we want to establish authentic audiences for students is so real people can view and interact with the projects students create. We want to take student work out of a pile of papers (or a …

When teachers share their life’s work with other teachers, students and schools flourish. Here are 20 books for teachers, by teachers.

http://ditchthattextbook.com/2016/10/13/20-books-by-teachers-for-teachers-to-inspire-your-teaching/…

Before attempting to rank a laboratory or a university among “the best in the world,” it is necessary to know precisely what “the best” means, by whom it is defined, and on what basis the measurement is made. Without …

According to senior security engineer at Google — Antivirus and intrusion detection tools are a waste of time for businesses.

http://techlog360.com/antivirus-tools-not-good-enough/…