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Hewlett Packard, Inc. started a global initiative to make the best use of technology to advance STEM.

We heard so much about Finland. Now comes Danes. Their neighbor Danish Education first year students does not use a single book.

OLPC report on 2011 - expanding in Peru, Rwanda, Palestine, and Afghanistan. Dedicated volunteers, with invitation from United Nations and African Union, continue to work with local governments and communities for such expansion.

Edutone selects Intel's Classmate PC for K-12 education market.

New Jersey's hybrid Charter schools test out new model by combining online and classroom instructions in the toughest cities.

In this tough economic times, school can extend course offering via online education.

US and Chinese schools build online virtual education partnership.

Teachers are becoming global educators, virtually teaching across multiple coutries spanning over multiple continents.

CNN on "Fixing Education." Secrets of Seoul and Mr. Bill Gates focus on teachers.

Georgia's Hall County partnered with Dell and transforming the classrooms "one student at a time", using 1) personalized 2) blended 3) data collection and 4) results. Sounds familiar? "wouldn't believe that these types of classrooms existed if I hadn't seen it for myself. When you get a group of dedicated educators together with a shared vision that is designed to remove the business-as-usual stigma and support total transformation you can achieve amazing things."

Chattanooga school is using clickers, as we use at HGSE, to improve retention rate?

Check out nb a very cool, collaborative note taking tool developed by MIT's Haystack Group. Last night I got into a discussion with Sanjoy Mahajan, an Olin College professor who got his Phd at MIT.  We were talking about Eriz Mazur's Peer Instruction technique when he began describing how in his flipped-classroom courses he uses the MIT Haystack Group's "nb" software to enable his student's to collaboratively discuss the course readings (online in pdf form) through shared, online annotations & notes.   Sanjoy's students are required to participate in the online annotation discussion, making their own annotations and responding to others, the night before his class.  He then reviews the annotations to prepare the next day's discussion and peer-instruction lesson plan.

Lawrence Summers, former Harvard President, touts e-book and role to technology in education.

Arnie Duncan, Education Secretary, and Julius Genachowski, FCC Chairman, setting up an ambitious plan to get digital textbooks in schools within five years. This requires ccollaboration among the Government, business, and educators.

Professor Clayton Christensen says, now more than ever, online education is ready for disruption.

This is a very interesting follow-up to the topic we saw a few weeks ago in class!

"Online U" has supporters and critiques. Will it take education to next level?

More presidents of Universities agree that american higher education must reinvent itself.

A good list for new teachers.

Knewton's attempt to personalize education for the world.