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Here are some top tech tips for parents to keep them in the digital loop.

A 21st century classroom has many characteristics associated with it which distinguish it from the classrooms of the past centuries. Here are the top 10 characteristics of a 21st century classroom.

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This infographic covers positive things that video games are responsible for in education.

"PLN (Personal Learning Networks) have grown in prominence and importance tremendously over the last few years and with good reason. They are a great way to extend your professional network beyond your physical environment and tap into a huge wealth of knowledge about your profession. This makes them one of the most effective autonomous means of developing your own teaching in a way that is most immediate and relevant to your ambitions."

"This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place. Each of the images has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Google, Android, and Web 2.0 applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. The use of the triangle shape for Bloomin' apps projects was not used  to help clear up the misunderstanding that the levels are hierarchical and the top levels only make up a tiny portion of the cognitive processes."

"...[D]espite the widespread declared enthusiasm for "edtech" and all its related cyber-baubles, teachers still - and will continue to - rely on a quality ELT textbook as the pedagogical "anchor" of their teaching, and schools are also probably more comfortable having such an expert-authored curriculum than being without" (So Is the Clock Ticking? ¶2).

Twubs are Twitter groups built around content aggregated from #hashtags.

One of the pages in the Centre for Learning and Performing Technologies (c4lpt) website listing tools for learning in a very clear and organised way. According to the site, about 70% of the tools listed are free

"One gamer told an opponent he presumed to be Jewish that he wished Hitler had succeeded in his mission. Many exchanges involve talk of rape or exult over the atomic bombing of Japan. There are frequent slurs on homosexuals, Asians, Hispanics and women. Such comments can be heard on all online video gaming systems, including PlayStation Network, Blizzard Entertainment (World of Warcraft) and others." (para. 3-4).

"technology, education, technological progress, Arne Duncan, RttT, Edward Cornish"

It's no small feat-big-time computer components are going microscopic. Australian scientists have developed a transistor consisting of just seven atoms, and the discovery could lead to more processing power in a smaller package, reports the BBC.

The elephant in the room is the question: If a 300-year-old institution like Encyclopedia Brittanica can be threatened in five years by Wikipedia, can other aggregators of expertise (aka colleges and universities) be similarly challenged? Similarly, if knowledge and talent are now globally understood to be the sine qua non of the Information Age, then can colleges and universities lever their communities, reputations, credentials, and presence globally? And, finally, how does the new channel cut by information technology change scholarship? Does the existence or accessibility of new tools, instruments, and resources change academic practice, and how do changes-or constancies-get socialized?

Within this website are many examples of how educators can begin the process of teaching their students how to use technology more appropriately. These resources can be used by any anyone who is interested in helping students or others better understand appropriate technology use. (Digital Citizenship Today,¶1)

This is the first iteration of a collectively produced school web policy (elementary/secondary) designed to solicit more intelligent (and less censorious) approaches to web access and issues of conduct.

"As it moves into general use, Wave might be known as a communication medium, a collaboration space, a repository where all of these things are stored and can be retrieved-or something else altogether" (item 6).