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The Khan Academy is a leading online education tool. Founder Salman Khan started the company after tutoring his niece who was struggling with middle school math. He has written a book called 'The One World Schoolhouse' about how the traditional classroom models no longer work and that using technology in the classroom can bridge the education gaps.

Great, Megan. Khan Academy is a great way to support flipped classrooms, too.

Interview on NPR's Fresh Air with MIT professor on ways in which digital usage effects teens and adults differently. It also highlights challanges presented to teens by needing to constantly create a digital persona

Thank you for reminding me of the wonderful resources on NPR. I need to delve deeper into this site!

Worried your kids spend too much time with their faces buried in a computer screen? Their schoolwork may soon depend on it. Education Secretary Arne Duncan called Tuesday for the nation to move as fast as possible away from printed textbooks and toward digital ones. Many countries outperform the US in terms of education and moving toward digital forms of education is a way the US can get back in the game, so to speak.

This post answers the age old question "What do "real' teachers do with their Saturday morning other than sleep?" As a result of a great twitter national education forum on NPR's "Tell Me More" I came across this story of 200 teachers who get together on twitter every Saturday morning to discuss best practices.

I shared this on Twitter! I thought it was an interesting story.

Joining their Ivy League counterparts Stanford, Princeton and U.C. Berkley, Harvard and M.I.T. announced a $60 million joint venture to provide classes on line for free. However, these public nonprofit institutions will be in direct competition with private for profit companies like Coursera and Udacity who plan to provide not just classes but entire degree programs on line at greatly reduced prices to students worldwide.