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Stephen Downes

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It's like our whole media world wrapped up in an educational technology article. "Educators are most likely to turn to media outlets and ed tech vendors for information about education technology. But they don't necessarily find the information from those sources reliable." I would ask, why don't they look elsewhere then? But where? The survey was conducted by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Jefferson Education Exchange (JEX). The article doesn't link to it (grrrr) and neither does the press release (grr). Indeed, the whole thing looks like an advertisement for ISTE's new EdTech Advisor service. So what we have here is what appears to be a fake news article describing a possibly fake survey all to advertise some product. Do you wonder why educators don't find these sources reliable? And ISTE - shame on you.

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