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After today's section case discussion, I was curious about how prevalent 1:1 tablet implementations are in K12 schools in the U.S. Here's a map from the One-To-One Institute that appears to have been generated by news coverage of tablet rollouts--I doubt it's comprehensive, but it's still an interesting geographic picture...

Math activities based on google maps.This looks like so much fun!

Very creative way to get youngsters engaged in math. As the author says, 'math is everywhere'.

Per our discussion in class about crowdsourcing, here is an article about the work of MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito using crowdsourcing to create maps of radiation after the disaster in Fukushima in Japan

Mind mapping is the process of using visual diagrams to show the relationships between ideas or information. Its popular uses include project planning, collecting and organizing thoughts, brainstorming and presentations - all in order to help solve problems, map out resources and uncover new ideas.

Augmented reality mashup with Google Earth Maps animates cars, pedestrians and football games on Google Earth.

Map showing the amount of education technology grants received by different states

Interesting look at mapping 21st Century Skills to Montessori .

I am a fan of the Motessori approach and am encouraged to see that they are mapping the new technology skills to the tenets of what has been working so well for them already.

A new experiment in online learning: MIT OpenCourseWare, Codecademy, OpenStudy and P2PU are partnering together to offer a new kind of MOOC. The first course is "A Gentle Introduction to Python." It sends out emails to thousands of small groups pointing them to lectures, tutorials, and exercises - but also encourages learners to think for themselves and share additional resources with each other. It provides a map to learning Python, but doesn't discourage folks from careening off the beaten path. 

"65% of today's grade-school children will end up at jobs that haven't been invented yet." Infographic detailing some possible future directions for educational technology including gamification, digital classrooms and novel computing methods.

Influence of Politics and business on education with Florida as a case in point. What is Good for Business, may not necessarily good for education. Interesting article with interactive maps.

I was exploring Navigator, searching for formative assessment links.  I came across an HP Catalyst funded iniative at the Colorado School of Mines.    I'm not convinced that Navigator's map view of tech projects is the best organizational metaphor.

This is an "K-12 education technology market map with the entrepreneurial, philanthropic, and education communities". Worth to take a look.

oh wow thanks for sharing....nice visual of what areas are more saturated....and where needs are.

This is an awesome resource. This would be great for curriculum specialists and technology coordinators in schools to draw from, and even teachers to be introduced to in PD...

This article almost provides a nice gist of a lot of topics we've touched on in class.

interesting. depending on where you live, what you are seeing will be slightly different due to filtering forces.

This tool uses Google maps to link educators for the purposes of collaboration. A clever use of this affordance, and one that those of us in IB Connect (Dock's class) may want to consider.

I had heard of Google Sky Map but the rest of these were new to me

This is an interesting talk which shares techniques that journalists use to determine fact from fiction. Could be very useful for teaching critical thinking skills.

Really interesting and definitely related to developing critical thinking skills. However, the idea that someone can crosscheck sources using Google maps to identify locations makes me wonder about how journalism in a web 2.0 ecology impacts privacy.

A wide spectrum of handy tools