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Online education startups such as the Khan Academy, as well as new efforts by MIT, Stanford, and Harvard have helped spur interest and add legitimacy to the notion of remote learning. Now Google is lending its brainpower to the rapidly growing space by releasing a tool called Course Builder, open source software that is designed to let anyone create online education courses.

Facebook, like many communication services and social media sites, uses its Terms of Service (ToS) to forbid children under the age of 13 from creating an account. Such prohibitions are not uncommon in response to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which seeks to empower parents by requiring commercial Web site operators to obtain parental consent before collecting data from children under 13.

"Heavy backpacks will soon become a thing of the past in South Korea with the digitization of all textbooks in state schools by 2015. "

"The Challenge My challenge to teachers is to create assignments, projects and techniques to capture your students' attention. Projects should be technology-rich, highly engaging, and fun learning experiences that reflect real-world skills. How will you know if the exercise reached your students? One indicator of success will be how your students respond to their parents' typical daily question: "What did you do in school today?" Will they get the usual response ("Nothing")? Or will they hear something new, maybe something along the lines of, "OMG, I can't believe what we got to do today?""

Summarize any text online in just a few seconds. Copy and paste your loooong text below. Might be good for demonstrating the before and after, wont' replace the skill however.

Sometimes teachers and administrators need a kick in the pants to see what they perceive as problems re-framed in a different way. Adam S. Bellow, author of The Tech Commandments, and founder of eduTecher, spoke to a roomful of receptive teachers at the recent ISTE 2011 conference, and demonstrated some of the ironies and contradictions the education system is mired in. And he had some advice.

Possible resources for next year's mini unit rotation.

"Byliner Discover & discuss great reads by great writers."

In case you are interested. Three Cups of Deceit is also mentioned here, claims that Greg Mortenson stretched the truth a bit in his novel.

"The website launched in April with a zinger: Jon Krakauer's 22,000-word expose on the alleged fraud and fabrications of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greg Mortenson, best-selling author of "Three Cups of Tea." Within three days, Krakauer's piece, "Three Cups of Deceit," had been downloaded by more than 75,000 people."

"Using iPods To Increase Reading Comprehension"

"iPads Invade the Computer Lab A private school on the Big Island of Hawaii not only adopted Apple's iPad for student learning; the school designed a whole facility around it. "

"What You Don't Know About Copyright, but Should"

Lego building links for educators