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Something to get you thinking...

Despite the provocative headline, did you get the feeling that they were telling you what you already know about quality schools? And unless I just read right past it, I don't think the researcher interviewed parents as part of what leads to academic success, which I thought was interesting since he seems to have researched just about every other group. Thanks for posting--I always enjoy reading stuff like this!

I agree with you Holly. Once again, it's hard to quantify exactly what happens in education. The major issue always has been that public never gets to the heart of the research and basis their opinions on fancy titles and pretty pictures/graphs.

Real research into the effect of iPads on learning in the classroom

this looks cool!

Seems like common sense???

A history of the world timeline in a "Prezi-Like" format from Microsoft Research.

Competition for Diigo?  Have you tried this Sean?

I have not tried it yet. Looks like it might be useful for research. How would it work in the classroom with students? Curious to see what happens to it after the beta run and after they add iPad functionality.

I don't think we have this problem in Milton...

If you are going to use the web for research, don't be duped by what you find out there. Learn five criteria for evalution information on the web.

Trailmeme is an interesting new service that could be described as social bookmarking meets social mind mapping. The basic idea behind Trailmeme is that we all have our own way of connecting the things we find on the Internet when we research a topic. Trailmeme provides a way to record those connections and publish them as a mind map or flowchart that Trailmeme refers to as a "trail." When you publish your trail publicly other visitors to Trailmeme can "walk" the trail you created. Walking a trail means that you follow the map of labeled links created by another person.