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Thanks for sharing this Malik. I was wondering about accessibility in the middle of the report. Then when I came to wearable technology and the list of products available, I realized that there's so much more we could do for students who have special physical needs.

PDF reader for the iPad that lets you "write-on," hi-lite and annotate documents.

A model for engagement in classrooms created by an initiative in Maine.

Resource to consider for those working on game design; include

This is an inspring slide-show from an MIT professor on "elements of a successful career of a graduate student". Interestingly, tenacity (or something of a similar kind) has been mentioned multiple times as a desirable quality. 

An application-oriented paper that explores designing effective learning games through the use of Flow, Motivation and Fun.

This is an interesting article on how information technology has created the "new student." Largely due to technology, students are finding an imbalance between their expectations of a learning environment and what they are finding in college and university classrooms. This implication has begun to affect decisions concerning courses, curricula, programs and services.

This is a really good paper that shows how to evaluate tools for education with learning curves. They use adaptive tutoring systems as an example but it can be applied to just about any educational tool, such as a website, tablet app, and so on. There is some math, but it is very approachable. 

The 2012 Digital Learning Report Card, funded by Jeb Bush's Digital Learning Now organization, was profiled in this week's EdSurge e-newsletter. The Digital Learning Report Card grades significant policy decisions (on a state-by-state basis) which "are advancing student-centric reforms, reducing barriers to blended learning, and encouraging the use of technology to offer a more personalized college- and career-ready education."

Duke's entrance into the MOOC space with a course on Bioelectricity. Participation peaked at 1000 students per week. 12,000 students enrolled from 100 countries. The educational range of students varied greatly. 313 students successfully completed the course.

"The Modern Parent's Guide to Kids and Video Games" is a recent publication from "Play It Safe" which highlights the benefits of playing video game, including educational benefits.

The Parent Engagement Tracker (PET) is a secured information system developed to easily track, measure and link parental involvement to student achievement. The software is available via the Internet and Microsoft Access Principals are able to measure parent attendance of various parent activities, school compact parent requirement hours, and the popularity of the different types of activities on a daily, monthly, quarterly or annual basis. This is really new. I have never seen something that tries to incentivize parenting.Do you think this would be a good initiative for a school.

How did you stumble on this? The copyright date is still listed as 2010 and three of the 5 links, including "About Us" are not working. In addition to the fact that I do not think it would be successful or a good idea and PET is a terrible name, the company simply does not seem to be up and working. Perhaps it is the wireframe for a college project :)

I'm sorry that I didn't see this earlier. I definitely think this may have been a real organization. The Connecticut parents union seemed to be doing something with it and here is a link to their brochure http://ctparentsunion.org/PETBrochureFinal.pdf, IN addition, the Hartford Public Schools piloted the program in 2010. They might have disappeared but there is definitely evidence that they were an actual organization.

This is a fairly old paper (1980), but is a comprehensive look at a lot of ideas we covered in class.

The classic on visual design for consistent "usable" windows-based interfaces.