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From the article: South Forsyth High School in Georgia made the leap to BYOT in 2009 and saw the number of discipline referrals for technology abuse drop dramatically, principal Jason Branch said. In its first year of BYOT, the school had four discipline referrals for technology abuse, after amassing 400 over the previous two years. Instead of working to subvert tech barriers, students were protecting their privilege with what Branch called a "mutual respect and instructional understanding between teachers and students." Sion made its leap trusting students - and trusting teachers. "We have to change the way we teach," said Sion world history teacher Beth Ingram. "Our concept of what knowledge is is changing.

From Portland, ME - school-provided technology devices (in this case, laptops) will be filtered at home as well as at school.  This represents a policy shift for a state that pioneered 1:1.

Interesting and seemingly thoughtful model of iPad distribution at the high school level

Educators from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, MI discuss how they used Google Sites to streamline curriculum management and create a network of student portfolios.  Potential for use in CCS, where we have Google Sites as part of our closed CCS domain; students don't have to register for accounts like they did in A2.

Teachers across grade levels are forsaking traditional resources such as textbooks for free, online, and collaboratively-created instructional materials.

App created for school updates - although how it was created, and how much support was received from an app developer is somewhat nebulous.

Example of how lower elementary teacher uses digital portfolio.  Can easily be altered for middle and high school.

From the article: But South Korea, among the world's most wired nations, has also seen its plan to digitize elementary, middle and high school classrooms by 2015 collide with a trend it didn't anticipate: Education leaders here worry that digital devices are too pervasive and that this young generation of tablet-carrying, smartphone-obsessed students might benefit from less exposure to gadgets, not more.

Short CNN story on a high school teacher's use of twitter in the classroom to help all students become engaged.

Interesting infographic about the students who have attended/graduated from high school in the past 10 years. As part of that group, the timeline and experience ratings are interesting...

Article about how Eric Sheninger, principal of New Milford High School, uses Twitter and technology tools in education

Interesting idea - community college readiness by sophomore year