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Great video showing Corning's vision for flexible, durable glass applications that can hide electronic components for high quality display on any surface you can imagine.

Given the crowded curriculum and the high stakes tests, this article is overly optimistic about the maker movement in schools, as opposed to out of schools

is augmented reality helping in this situation, or glitz?

eMentoring is a more powerful means of online professional development than presentations and, if done well, can use social media as an asset

Gartner report on social technologies

MOOC design

Gates-funded MIT massive game

My colleagues at the Ed Arcade are designing this game - if anyone's interested, I can get you supplemental information.

market shifts in online learning

This is awesome.

Not as comprehensive an article as the title suggests, but interesting enough.

I'll be working on this project through the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at MIT Media Lab this semester

This is very cool...I haven't seen much on cross-generational learning, but I think that there are very valid benefits to it (as well as multi-generational living). Anyways, it seems not so different from the research that Uche is doing in the class. Look forward to hearing how your semester goes!

If you like your learning aurally -- this is a good hourlong documentary (yeah, you could read it too, but what's the point?) downloadable as a podcast or playable through the web.

A consideration of using Vine, Twitter's 6 second video platform, in the classroom. The embedded video is the most helpful bit.

One of the few uses of advanced technologies in the history curriculum

As delivery of history teaching to students becomes more and more realistic, it is more important than ever to ensure that we have in place a robust and diverse oversight network to ensure that the narrative being suggested is an accurate representation of the time and place, as opposed to a history-as-written-by-the-winners narrative, which is pervasive throughout many textbooks. For many students, this sort of immersion will overwhelm any alternative streams of knowledge coming from Harlem in the 20s, so it is vital that the VR be constructed in a way that captures the context of why it was such a dynamic time in New York. As for the creators of this technology having to turn to the porn industry for technical support, that should not come as a surprise, as many claim that porn has revolutionized, or at least been instrumental in, the emergence of many new industries from VHS to the internet.

A different way of thinking about what educational technology is "transformational."

A good place to find and learn more about the ins/outs/good/bad of MOOCs.