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iPad sales are surpassing computer sales, and the demand continues to increase. Transition from paper to tablets. There is more emission when producing an iPad than when producing paper but it is balanced from consuming on the same device rather than buying new books over and over again. The disposal of tablets is a little more tricky. E-waste is often sent to other countries.

Some devices are more eco-friendly than others. This is based on what it is made of, where the materials came from, manufacturing, packaging, energy efficiency, and recyclability. Each wireless phone service has their own way of promoting the ways that their company is green. The greenest manufacturer is Wipro.

This article focuses on a teacher who recently integrated 3D printing in her own class. It talked about how much of a learning experience it was for her children, and at some points they learned together to find out how a 3D printer works.

This is about MakerBot Academy, a crowds sourced effort to get 3D printers into schools. Motivated by president Obama who said that "3D printing has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything. The next industrial revolution in manufacturing will happen in America. We can get that done." MakerBot is trying to promote the next "industrial revolution" with 3D printers.

This is another article wrapping up students learning from 3D Printing. It has detailed experiences of students learning.

Do you know where you old electronics go when you get rid of them? If not, you should check out this article. It is eye opening and shocking. To say the least. It talks about how our old electronics are sent to a waste processing plant in Africa. This waste processing plant is positioning people and children living in Ghana, which is on the west coast of Africa. The name of the waste treatment plant is Agbogbloshie. Apparently it is an illegal landfill. It is located very close to Ghana, which is the reason it is poisoning the people there. The electronics that are sent there are processed by "young men and children." These workers tend to earn about $4 a day. The poisons emitted when they burn these electronics are stunting the workers mental and physical growth.

3D printing has helped medical fields improve drastically. With a 3D printer, not only is money saved, but the manufacturing efficiency is increased. Both dental laboratories and the development of hearing aids have been made simpler with the help of 3D printing. Additionally, tissue engineering has been improved.

The money saved from 3D printing is one of the major impacts on society. 3D printing has recently been used in hospitals to save money. Hospitals are in need of cable tethers to prevent cables from being tangled; however, the total cost of buying these tethers can add up. Therefore to save money the hospital made the cable tethers with a 3D printer.

This article on 3D printing will be useful in explaining its impact on society. It focuses on how 3D printing is being used to support research. With this support, 3D printing can hopefully be used to help people with movement disorders, such as cerebral palsy. Additionally, the institution of 3D printing with education can save schools thousands of dollars. Through these developments, it is evident that 3D printing can successfully impact society.

iPads could help you leave a smaller carbon footprint. The production of an iPad mini has the smallest amount of carbon emission when compared to an iPad 4, air 13", pro 15", iMac 27", and Mac Pro. Also, iPad minis use much less electricity to run. Also, small tablets can help to reduce your media footprint if you do things like download books onto your iPad instead of having a hard copy.

LACE is a learning analytics project aimed at bringing together various projects from the learning analytics world. It's goal is to allow learning analytics to have a smooth transition of data between companies and programs, allowing for more effective support for students and teachers in the long run. More date may be needed.

This article is about figuring out what is the most environmentally friendly way to present something to a group of people. It is comparing a big projector, small projector, laptop, tablet/iPad, or hanging out sheets of paper. In the end which method you use depends on how many people you are presenting to. In some cases tablets are more energy efficient than a large projector or paper. It all depends on the audience size.

In development by Perdue University, the program entitled Signals allows students and teachers to monitor areas of difficulty. It uses a color system that informs the student of how he or she is doing in a subject, and even in a specific topic of a subject. This allows students to realize what they need to focus more on, or where they need help.

This is a link to the OpenEssayist project page. It is a project currently under development in the UK that assists students in writing essays. It examines their paragraphs and gives suggestions for how to write the rest of it. It is currently in use by Open University UK.

Many people complain that renting computer power from Amazon and other cloud companies is too expensive. I found this site useful because it discusses how the cloud can be made cheaper for the use of everyone.Cloud prices have been lowered 6 to 8 percent annually, he says, whereas as hardware costs have plummeted 30 to 45 percent.

LAK 14 stands for Learning Analytics and Knowledge (Conference) 2014. This is the fourth year of the conference, and I think a lot of data can come from this site. See the "Live Blogs and Notes" page for more information about the conference via blogs written as it occurred.

A good summary of how analytic tactics are used in the modern world. Amazing definition of learning analytics on page 4. Also has useful charts to help understand how different forms of data can be used in an educational setting.

A good resource to find other programs and organizations that are attempting to change the learning world. NGL provides grants to programs that use new technology to help students better learn. See the Break Through Model page under "Find" or "Discover's" many links for more information