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Miami-Dade county explores BYOD. Looks like, as of last Tuesday, the school system has $1.2 billion coming their way (it's worth clicking on the relevant link within this article), at least some of which is intended for technology upgrades. 

An interesting take on "Achievement Gap"

More than interesting. This challenges a basic premise of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

They had great campaign along with election supporting kids to learn and discuss on topics that mattered a lot as future voters. I believe they will begin international version soon this month.

And in this article, they break down the big three MOOCs and what makes them different from each other.

The year of the MOOCs

STEM search engine that prevents the fear of math - related to failure/motivation research for those of us in Dock's class 

I wonder how well it will cover the gap between tablet and laptop.

This article is about the Khan Academy: how it came to be, how it is funded, its strengths and perceived weaknesses. Additionally, it paints a great picture of the Ed Tech ecosystem.

Can large publishing companies really be force of good in the ed tech arena?

Seems to be getting some coverage on this topic lately. Interesting comment here. Probably reactions many disruptive innovation driver will face. Doesnt mean they are failing though. Reactions from their users seem to be relatively muted. It is the skeptics and traditional players who is making big deal out of it. 'Obviously, the company does not want to say that its free content is cannibalizing the revenue generated from charging students and institutions for premium features and content, but it's clear that the company didn't quite get the balance right.' 'Unfortunately, although Flat World would never admit it, this announcement certainly serves as validation of the doubt over Open Educational Resources (OER) as a business concept.' Whatever you do though, the business model should be sustainable..

Another emerging technology. Will still take some years to be affordable enough but interesting to be aware of.

Scott Young, a recent university graduate, writer, programmer, traveler and avid reader of interesting things, decided to finish MIT's entire 4-year computer science program within 12 months with MIT OpenCourseWare.

Brief post decrying traditional concepts of the flipped classroom in favor of a more 'Duckworthian' approach

Good point, Tim, the flipped classroom doesn't flip who's listening during the lecture phase, does it? Could the teach then use Duckworth's model in class, or does the existence of a lecture phase at all limit the effectiveness of her approach?

Justin Reich (of the Berkman Center) hosts an iPad summit, then invokes a Zen koan to say what it's really about - "unlocking student talent, compassion, and humanity".

The MIT Technology Review just interviewed Khan and talked about his vision for the future, sustainability, and business models.

People have posted about the Star Wars sale before, but here is an analysis of what the impact means on "Tech Education"--kind of talks about it is more efficient to separate entertainment and education, but using the sale money to directly fund education is a good move.

"Be a Beethoven, not a Falco: Learn how to innovate continuously"