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Great read on cultivating active learning, including the role of technology (though not transformative technology) in the classroom. Talks about engaging the more "shy" / deeply thinking students in class via Twitter chat - "smart students like to talk, smarter students like to listen."

This is another project by CAST which has been particularly relevant to the work our research project is involved with. For more information click on the link below: http://jlr.sagepub.com/content/43/1/68 This article was provided to us by our contact at CAST and attempts to validate this type of "Digital Reading Environment." It's also authored by Catherine Show of HGSE, and is just a year old. The statistical data is a little above my comprehension level but it is described at a level I can understand. CAST UDL Book Builder This wonderful and free online tool allows you to create your own interactive "books" to help young readers learn reading strategies to build comprehension. Enter your own text, images, and hints.

this was presented in one of my other classes (A-117). it provides an interesting way to use digital text for enhanced learning.

Social media and social activism

In case you've been going back and forth (like I have) whether to upgrade to iOS 7

Really interesting article about the potential of a lifelong and nonlinear path through college - reminiscent of Prof. Dede's lifelong and life-wide learning propositions/models.

Below is a quote from : Cedric Cullingford (2006) Children's own vision of schooling, Education 3-13: International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education, 34:3, 211-221, DOI: 10.1080/03004270600898745  "At the heart of the problem, to put it simply, is the fact that although children love to learn, they resent being taught" 

Interesting perspectives on the future of education. The top article highlights a few fast developments around the notion of the evolving classroom: where is K-12 technology headed?

The LA Board of Education will be meeting later this month to discuss providing iPads to every student + teacher in the nation's 2nd largest school system.

This is an interesting overview of implementation issues - a topic we will address later this semester

Building digital citizenship - especially relevant with regard to the backchannel discussion in Monday's class.

What's it mean to replicate an innovative school? What's the context?

people have similar needs online as they do f2f

How should schools choose devices to run all the great programs we're talking about? Despite the title, this article includes criteria as well as the author's own answer.

Quite an interesting move by University of California, SF - med students will now be able to receive academic credit for editing Wikipedia articles about diseases.

A special report on the future of higher education and the role of innovation - lots of interesting and relevant topics here, including rethinking assessment standards, flipping classrooms, and reinventing the academic calendar.