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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.

New Media Horizons 2013 report on STEM learning

districts continue to worry about social media

Optimists about Google glass

The developer kit would especially be helpful to developers planning on using the device to develop augmented reality applications. Typically, augmented reality refers to an enhanced (and, sometimes, fantastic) vision of reality.

This would also be very powerful for engineering applications, virtually "adding" prototypes from solidworks or 3D modeling programs to see their impact on objects or spaces. I also see a cool educational aspect where students could build theoretical bridges, building models, or art installations to see how they would impact the real space they might inhabit.

We brought in Bootstrap to teach computer programming to elementary students in the after-school and summer programs run by my community school. Would be interested in comparing their approach with Scratch's