great list of resources for grading and assessment

virtual worlds: not the future, but the present of education. I am not prepared

This puts it all in perspective, lest we begin to believe that what we know is more important than what they experience

I read this every year: reminds me to reset my expectations for "what we all ought to know"

Haha. I'd like to say this to my juniors! And some adults could benefit

the new layers of literacy, as our children will need it

this is what happens when we look to prioritize our news by what's trending instead of perusing all of it and then deciding.  This supports my efforts to add contemporary texts to my World Lit course.

augmented reality w/out coding for teachers

I'm on page 199 of 349 of Let the Great World Spin: "there's a high that you get when you're writing code. It's cool. It's easy to do. You forget your mom, your dad, everything. You've got the whole country onboard. This is America. You hit the frontier. You can go anywhere, Its about begin connected, access, gateways, like a whispering games where if you get one thing wrong you've got to go all the way back to the beginning."   quote from a teen hacker in the novel--it captures adolescence, hacking, learning, delight, beauty, everything: I want to remember this when I meet my new students in September

First time I have seen the way reading changes when reading on a screen. I can use this info with my students, understand how critical reading is changing but not disintegrating

doctorow's take on why we need not just twitter and facebook and diigo but also older methods of socialmedia--blogging

this is the best analysis on why we need the varied forms of social media in the classroom--and in life

ADICHIE review of TKAM