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This very short and concise article has been in my thinking as I've worked with students especially recently and pulled together other resources on Common Core. Amidst the glut of information and feeding frenzy tendencies, structure and guidance is needed from all of us to be deliberate. As we design instruction, consider learning expectations, select tools and resources and raise the bar for students, "re-impress upon digital natives the importance of thinking in absence of endless - and endlessly accessible - data sources." I urge you to shake up completely the animal, planet or country report. (I doubt that you are doing this cookie-cutter work, but spread the word). If a simple Google search can answer the question, throw out the assignment.

Most people like speech to text, but I think text to speech is equally important. And while IOS native TtoS is good Voice Dream Reader looks great.

Simple explanation of how the app creation cycle works using this creation tool. It ends up being a native iOS app in Xcode.

Published in March of 2011, this article reports on the results of a survey conducted of students at the University of Scranton on the strategies used by postsecondary students to gather information using Internet-capable cell phones, or smartphones. The article concluded: Information literacy instructors should become familiar with new search methods (such as quick response codes) to help students use them effectively and efficiently. Students should be encouraged to review a range of search results, particularly when searching for academic information. Information literacy instructors should help students understand how to evaluate information, especially when it is presented in a nontraditional form, such as a native app. Students may need assistance from educators in applying information literacy skills they have learned while searching on a laptop or desktop to the mobile environment.

"...benefits of m-learning, as described in the literature, were the convenience and immediacy of learning that the technology enables; and the motivation that comes from being empowered to take learning into one's own hands." This article talks about implementing m-learning from a pedagogical perspective. For me it's about changing our teaching methodologies, so we focus on learning. I liked that it discussed different types of learning: micro-learning, multi-media learning, and the measurement of learning, and how these support m-learning.

Micro-learning is a great methodology for quick learning experiences, but I fear that too many digital natives crave micro-learning over in-depth, extensive, traditional learning and research. Micro-learning is immediately gratifying and "painless" when it comes to time investment and conveniently fits with mobile, on-the-go learning. I believe a healthy balance between the two drastically different learning models is important for students.

In what can be considered a major dig at Microsoft ( MSFT), Clay Bavor, product management director at Google ( GOOG) Apps told V3 that the company is not bringing native Gmail or Google Drive apps to Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.