This might be a little too late but... :)

"Blended learning can be implemented in many unique ways, generally using a combination of one or more of the following models." says the website. I think every teacher willing to be more "techno-minded" should be familiar with these models.

This is not related with this week's topic, yet I found it interesting. SAMR is a framework for integrating technology into the classroom. It may help to assess ourselves as teachers while designing our learning activities.

A survey result suggesting that "4 Out of 5 Students think that Digital Learning Technology Has a Positive Impact on Their Grades"

Thank you Yasin & Serap!

A TED talk by Harry Dyer, a Digital Sociologist at the university of East Anglia. In the video, he discusses how we can better understand the youth and their relationships with SM tools through SM and how we should integrate their skills into the classroom.

A Pinterest board created by Pearson. It includes a variety of tips, infographics, web sites etc. Worth following.

A short yet well curated list of most commonly used educational social networking sites.

A nice and short infographic for those who asked the question "If this is the flipped class, wthat is the blended class?" It clarifies the difference between blended and flipped classrooms.

A flipped PD design. Some of us may want to try it. :)

A practical guide for choosing the most appropriate video for your specific instructional aims.

If you want to see a practical "how-to" guide for designing lessons check this one: a handbook for developing TPACK with learning activitytypes.

A cheatsheet of edtech concepts and trends from sms to byod for EdTech beginners.

Yasin and Hakan, I agree with both of you. I also think that first we need to acknowledge our students are different. I may even call them humans 2.0 :) and yes their attention span is rather short and is getting shorter, and so is ours. I, as a teacher, suffer from it and have my own strategies. Maybe we can help students in that, too. Also, I really don't think they don't want to "read, research, be self-directed, explore". When something enters into their "radar", they can turn into autonomous and motivated researchers! I know that I am pointing out to the obvious, but we need te revise what we teach and how we teach. As also stated in the Horizon Report 2016: " In order to remain motivated, students need to be able to make clear connections between the curriculum and the real world, and how the new knowledge and skills will impact them."

This is not an infographic directly related with educational technology, yet I thought it's a good reminder first for myself (as I sometimes find it hard to paraphrase while avoiding plagiarism) and all my fellow researchers. Plagiarism is common fear of each student. You risk being plagiarized and you risk creating non-unique text. To get things even worse, not only mindless copy-paste constitutes a danger. Your piece is considered as plagiarism when you try to combine the author's original word combinations with yours. This is the so-called patchwork paraphrase.

This short article presents 5 web 2.0 applications to be used in a flipped classroom.