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Keeping educators up to date on the latest technologies to help them be more effective in their teaching environments;

Using technology to "scale improvement" and "accelerate reform";

Developing systems and strategies that will help educators use assessment data to improve student learning;

When web surfers use Google or Bing to look for information about, say, the national debt, the search results they now see at the top of the page might differ from those of their neighbor. That’s because all the major search engines have revamped their formulas to include social media data as key indicators of a website’s importance.

The reasoning behind this game-changing move is to help us sift through the overwhelming amount of information at our fingertips. The major search companies recognize that we need a filtering system to save us from information overload, and the system they’ve created now relies more heavily on our history of preferences than on an objective calculation of relevance to bring certain resources to the front of the pack.

This is the natural path of industrialization: invention, propagation, adoption, control.

Artificial scarcity is the natural goal of the profit-seeking.

Faustian bargain