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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!

tools that might not just aid higher education students ill definitely be trying them), but less advanced writers such as secondary school students

Implementing blended learning in schools, in one awesome visual.

Infographics make me so happy. This one is fantastic!

Mind mapping is the process of using visual diagrams to show the relationships between ideas or information. Its popular uses include project planning, collecting and organizing thoughts, brainstorming and presentations - all in order to help solve problems, map out resources and uncover new ideas.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. ''Mobile devices are cheaper, more portable and less obtrusive than other technologies. Yet the challenges of how training students to use sophisticated technology tools is an economic imperative.''

Im downloading Knowledge Forum (formerly CSILE) to see how it compares to other digital learning communities

Perspectives on Common Core, Nationalization of Education, Data, FERPA and kids.

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

Flipped classrooms and mastery learning: "The student's understanding of a subject is a constant and time is a variable."

Upcoming conference on the use of iPads in education at Harvard Medical School - Joseph B. Martin Conference Center November 7-8 (pre-conference Nov 6) Educators, researchers, industry - all represented Organized by EdTechTeacher 2012

This conference takes place at Hynes Nov 13-15. I am in touch with the co-founder who is an alumnus and may be able to offer us student rates. Let me know if you're interested!

A good overview of the two different pedagogies behind MOOCs.

Another type of online learning platform: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/27/ut-austin-psychology-professors-prepare-worlds-first-synchronous-massive-online

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!)

Not really educational, but our section this week got me thinking about what *could* exist

Sugata Mitra, from India, designs a school in the Cloud. It is a self-environment that involves broadband, collaboration and encouragement. Kids learn from each other...

More on MOOCs: "One one side, there are those who portray traditional higher education models as enjoying too much immunity from market forces and public demands for greater academic efficiency and productivity; on the other side are faculty groups and others who are struggling against a narrative of disruption that sees higher education as a business while discounting the issues of academic quality, freedom and governance."

This examines the hype implied in MOOCs around the world

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