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Digital India is not a 'Policy Change" but also a "Social Change" which involves transforming the mind-set of its Citizen. E-Learning and Digital Education are the two sides of the same coin. Students nowadays are apt with Computers, Laptops, Tablets and Smartphones. They are getting introduced & gaining experience of E-Learning.

small steps - no overwhelm

great article for teachers and parents to help students change their perceptions--specifically, from the idea of being "Smart" to having to put in a lot of effort for great results to happen.

Words spread like weeds-seemingly at random but actually governed by invisible forces. Look away for too long, and suddenly new ones are emerging from who knows where. The uncertain and gradual growth of words makes it nearly impossible to pinpoint where they started or how they caught on. But that is starting to change, as linguists...

Although Bloom's Taxonomy proved useful to teachers and students alike, recent decades gave rise to numerous criticisms, implying that the model was out of date. These criticisms included concerns with setting applicability, contemporary language, and process conceptualization. More recently, Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) have adapted Bloom's model to fit the needs of today's classroom by employing more outcome-oriented language, workable objectives, and changing nouns to active verbs (see "stairs" below). Most notably, knowledge has been converted to remember. In addition, the highest level of development is create rather than evaluate.

Article questioning the ethics and credibility of Newsweek/Jay Mathews high school rankings.

A capitonym is a word whose meaning changes based on whether or not it is capitalized.

Good article with summary list of

Podcast of Nora Young interview with Clay Shirky. Intellectual production going to be as profoundly affected by the production of the amateur as the MSM has already been.

Just in time scholarship.

See also Clay Shirky"Here Comes Everybody and the concept of Coasean floor.