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RSS technology makes it possible for anyone to keep up with fresh content without having to visit the site in question. Now the same holds for webpages without RSS thanks to a new Google Reader feature.

Here are just some of the uses that educators came up with for this feature:

Student group projects – in your class or with a school across the country Teachers collaborating on lesson plans Teachers and students working in the same binder District or school binders that are a collection of resources

lecture, it is a quick, easy, efficient, and almost fool-proof way to get information directly from you to your students

isn't really any deep interaction

referred to as the "flipped classroom". I would outsource the delivery of lecture to video

Most school districts have the technical infrastructure to support the basic digital textbooks of today. But as far as supporting the kinds of textbooks tech-savvy educators would like to see—multimedia-rich, interactive, Web-based materials—schools have some serious catching up to do in increasing network speed and connectivity, providing professional development for teachers, and persuading lawmakers to revisit state textbook-adoption policies.

A new study by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, finds that students’ perceptions of their teachers correlate with the teachers’ value-added scores; in other words, “students seem to know effective teaching when they experience it.” The correlation is stronger for mathematics than for ELA; this is one of many discrepancies between math and ELA in the study. According to the authors, “outside the early elementary grades when students are first learning to read, teachers may have limited impacts on general reading comprehension.” This peculiar observation should raise questions about curriculum, but curriculum does not come up in the report.

notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.

Learning analytics

Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.

Every big tech company will now focus on phones and tablets as its next big source of revenue while PCs will take up an ever-smaller share of the pie.

cheaper than today's PCs, but we'll probably have more of them

we need to move students up the education chain

“The school becomes not a factory but an incubator.”

Most of us grew up in an age where knowledge and information were primarily conveyed in textual format. Think of the encyclopedias we used. Photos were used but largely as an enhancement to articles that were text-based. Worse, the high cost of full color printing meant that the images that were used were usually in black and white.

In fact, I'm never up in front of the board "teaching" the class for more than 15 minutes at a time. Let me explain: