Overview of discussion of access issues for one-to-one devices and using personal phones in the classroom.

The 24 new courses will use video, interactive software, games, social media and other digital materials to present math lessons for kindergarten through 10th grade and English lessons for kindergarten through 12th grade..

UK project on engagement and technology including projects with "bounded freedom."

cutting back on wireless access in Higher Ed. classes because students think they are great at multitasking, but aren't.

interesting thoughts about how and when students seek help

not gaming, per se, but what ideas are worth teaching?

WolfQuest, WhyPox are highlighted as tools for informal science learning.

"Parents see the use of mobile technologies in schools as a means of increasing student engagement (43 percent) and preparing students for the working world (41 percent). The most often-cited instructional benefit is mobile devices' ability to extend learning beyond school hours."

"Literature has unreliable narrators, but what do you call-how would you even begin to represent-an unreliable avatar?"