Twitter chat to explore the future of internet search

Google and other online gatekeepers recently revised their search algorithms to bring users more personalized information.

How will new web-search formulas adopted by Google, Microsoft, and others affect future scholarship, or students’ understanding of the world? What skills should students be taught in school so they’re prepared to make sense of, and make their mark on, this new digital landscape?

Award-winning educator, speaker, author, and consultant Angela Maiers will address these questions and more in a special Twitter chat hour with eSchool News readers Oct. 19.

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and other online gatekeepers recently revised their search algorithms in an attempt to bring users more personalized information. This subtle shift has enormous implications for students, researchers, and society at large, Maiers and other experts agree.…Read More

Los Angeles area schools, teachers accused of cheating

Student test scores from two Los Angeles-area schools have been thrown out based on evidence of cheating by teachers, the Huffington Post reports. Three teachers at Short Avenue Elementary are accused of correcting answers on student answer sheets or instructing students toward correct answers–or both. A science teacher at Animo Leadership Charter High School is also accused of correcting answers after exams have taken place…

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