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Eric Brunsell is Assistant Professor of Science Education @ UW-Oshkosh. He is the facilitator of Edutopia's STEM group, and a regular blogger for Edutopia. You can follow him on Twitter @brunsell. -- This post was co-authored with Elizabeth Alderton. Elizabeth is an Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

getting started guide on mobile learning

'Quest to Learn' is a New York City public middle and high school, supporting collaborative student-led learning: "Quest to Learn has used research in game-based learning to create a rigorous and engaging collaborative learning space where students feel safe taking risks and using their successes and failures to create and apply new knowledge." "Nurturing social and emotional learning (SEL) and 21st century skills like inventiveness, risk taking and collaboration."

"Anything digital can be seen, manipulated, experienced."

"he obstacles to code literacy are getting smaller every day, while the liabilities for ignorance are only getting more profound."

For those a bit hesitant about jumping on the Twitter bandwagon. 

Level one: Use iCivics to Teach the content

Games as constant assessment, and textbooks as tools for problem-solving

relates to my T545 course this spring

You have to sign in to Edutopia to download the PDF, but it's free and its a great resource.

This article seems to follow with discussions from section today. 

Opinion in Edutopia

This article weighs in both side of flipping classrooms. "Good teaching, regardless of discipline, should always limit passive transfer of knowledge in class, and promote learning environments built on the tenants of inquiry, collaboration and critical thinking."