I liked the list of resources with specific examples how it can be used in your classroom.

Mark Reford, who heads the school, and Michael Zeigler, the school's technology director and a teacher, said a new course marries the worlds of art and technology for middle school students, promotes higher-order thinking and gives kids insight into the future of manufacturing. 3D printers are not new but If you 've never heard of them it is a fun technology to investigate.

I've been waiting for this to happen-- High performing teachers will be maximized by somehow giving them more students. Shaky premise especially when teacher burnout is considered or just plain sickness.

When I was the Teacher Leader of Assesments my biggest challenge was getting the teachers to use the textbook as a tool and not as the curriculum. This new flexibility will help lead teachers align textboks to standards and help teachers have consistent resources

Now teachers can show educational content on Youtube without it getting blocked. Good job Youtube.

Although this technology is well established, I thought it would be nice to remember one way technology helps people connect to eachother.

Article from July 2011 that is an example of how to transistion to a BYOD school.

This articile describes the educational effect of the Time To KNow Digital Teaching Platform used with low SES students in Isreal.

We referenced this philosophy earlier and I thought that others might be interested to hear about a trend that may counter our program. It reminds me a bit of the "Having wonderful Ideas" course.

Is this the start of a movement?

This is a "retweet" from Alex Shoenfeld but since he is not in this course I am posting it here.

Published Online: October 17, 2011 Published in Print: October 19, 2011, as No Longer Optional Two years ago, Tennessee's Putnam County school system adopted an online-learning graduation requirement for its high school students. But district officials realized that not all students had high-speed Internet access at home, or even computers, so they came up with a variety of options to allow students to fulfill the requirement.

Coming from a rural town, I found this article interesting.

A reminder of how to use technology to be an effective communicator.