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Nestled between Julia Auster's fantasy football app and Facebook Messenger is a relatively new bucket of apps: the education tools she uses in the French classes she teaches at Robert Adams Middle School in Holliston, Mass. Auster isn't alone.

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.

Students from Norco College created an interactive game that introduces middle schools students to career technical education. '' It's so important to get students thinking early about their future'' (Director of Career & Technical Education Projects)

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...

See why online education might be more benefiting for large state school systems who capitalize effectively on its flexibility while providing the same type of credentials.

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.

'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."

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.

An interesting array of tools (I wasn't aware of some of them) for flipped classrooms from blogs to LMSs , YouTube..

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.

An interesting read about Technology Reform in Education as presented by an official from the US Department of Education.

Is engagement in learning the most important characteristic you look for in a technology-rich school, then? Do you think that learning that occurs online is different from learning that happens in traditional classrooms? Access to rural areas?....

This reflects on our discussion from earlier in the semester on the merits of teaching coding in schools.

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!