Captures the complexities of actually implementing new technologies in school at scale.

Schools and school districts struggle to buy the right technology at a decent price. Why? Here are ten answers.

From the Orlando Sentinel, 1985: Although they have not solved how to keep students interested in certain subjects, computers are proving to be highly acceptable motivational tools in all grades at Seminole County schools. Unlike video games that provide only entertainment, computers in the classroom are used as a teaching resource to reinforce development skills for elementary and middle school students and for those with learning deficiencies....

Featuring a HGSE grad student...

Articles on various topics including one on EcoMUVE and a lead article on designing school buildings for blended learning, among others.

Quality education for children in families earning less than $2/day is a huge challenge in developing countries. If tech can help...definitely transformative.

1) I love love love infographics. 2) Surprising data here. Is it that teachers overestimate themselves, or we underestimate teachers?

3) Oops, posted before I read the fine print: "WeAreTeachers conducted an online survey...The data reported is representative of teachers who completed the survey and not projectable to the population of US school teachers." Bad on me; irresponsible of them.

The author, who ran a DC charter school and then started LearnZillion, an online lesson platform, argues that technology can break down the typical teacher silos and improve practice.

From 1996 (pre-technology?) - a famed HGSE professor, Richard Elmore, on why education struggles with scale, and what to do about it.

1) Bror Saxberg has a new book coming out in a couple of months: "Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age," with one of my favorite education authors, Rick Hess. An excerpt is here: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rick_hess_straight_up/2013/10/breakthrough_leadership_in_the_digital_age.html

2) A great book about getting people to change what they're doing is "Switch" by the Heath brothers. Not tech or education specific, but very relevant to scaling. http://heathbrothers.com/books/switch/

A study on the traditional kind of field trips shows their value. It's a limited study - but getting kids out of school does seem to work!

Not just the information, but the presentation, are awesome. I LOVE infographics.

This is about healthcare.gov / Obamacare, and the federal government, but it's thought-provoking about educational technology, much of which is purchased by government agencies (i.e., school districts). How can school districts avoid these problems? (I'm a pro-government liberal, let's be clear!)

Implementing blended learning in schools, in one awesome visual.

A perspective on MOOCs I haven't heard: tech-positive, yet skeptical that there's anything new or interesting about them.

I wouldn't have expected BusinessWeek to not be a cheerleader, but...

A white paper on connecting digital learning and deeper learning by Tom Vander Ark, who used to be at HGSE. I haven't read it, but I'm excited to!

Fascinating article about backlash to a non-profit working with school districts to integrate student data sources. Raises lots of pertinent issues beyond student data: intersection of business, foundations, and school districts; parent reactions to educational technology; districts going down the rabbit hole of tech contracts without a clear sense of what they'll get....

It's kind of hilarious to read this "instructions to give students" in the context of our class. "Charge your iPad" is first.

This blog post has relevance for what happens, and why, when education reformers (including technologists!) put out good ideas and watch them not get implemented, or not get implemented transformationally, on the ground in schools.