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"100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom"

This is an interesting read about a professor's experiment with social media in her classrooms. Good read.

"While LMS providers are making laudable efforts to incrementally make their tools more social, open, modular, and interoperable, they remain embedded in the classroom paradigm. The paradigm-not the technology-is the problem. We need to build, bootstrap, cobble together, implement, support, and leverage something that is much more open and loosely structured such that learners can connect with other learners (sometimes called teachers) and content as they engage in the authentic behaviors, activities and work of learning. Building a better, more feature-rich LMS won't close the 2-sigma gap. We need to utilize technology to better connect people, content, and learning communities to facilitate authentic, personal, individualized learning. What are we waiting for?"

Nice thought piece on how LMS's influence our teaching.

Interesting article being that we are learning how to integrate these tools.

Here is a research article that examines some of the obstacles to the development of media education in the U.S. I think it is interesting being that we discussed how in other countries, they really utilize technology in the classrooms.

This is an article/study for those interested in social media on the graduate level.

Timely article. Akin to banning social media in the classroom?

This blogger (one from Evrim's list) had an interesting post about a survey he did and the responses he got. The question was: "What should they (administrators) see as evidence of Technology Integration in classrooms?" He wrote up a full article on it, but I think his blog is better with some snippets of responses.

This is a handout that teaches what to tell kids and adults what to look for when utilizing social media.