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"Schools are doing Education 1.0; talking about doing Education 2.0; when they should be planning Education 3.0"

"The Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition Model offers a method of seeing how computer technology might impact teaching and learning.  It also shows a progression that adopters of educational technology often follow as they progress through teaching and learning with technology.  "

Wonderful image and excellent reminder about the real purpose of technology. "Technology is a tool, not a learning outcome."  The graphic was designed by Bill Ferriter (@plususin) and has started a conversation in the Twitterverse.

In the midst of a growing storm of new technology-induced learning concepts such as flipped learning, blended learning, personalized learning (to mention but a few) , teachers are left with no other alternatives but to enhance and accommodate their professional development efforts to suit the changing educational paradigms. Edsurge called this "personalized professional development". This is the kind of life-long learning that involves the integration and leverage of digital media and technology (and offsite resources) for expanding one's field of expertise. Image source: EdSurge The web now abounds with all kinds of resources, tools, materials, and know-how to help teachers grow professionally. EdSurge has this wonderful guide featuring a set of different tools that teachers can draw on to expand their professional development. These tools are selected in such a way that they address different areas : They support how teachers engage with colleagues They help teachers learn or find support for implementing fresh strategies and approaches They measure how that learning impacts practice in the classroom. To better evaluate how these tools help teachers grow professionally, EdSurge created a "framework of a continuous cycle of learning." This framework is composed of 4 stages: engage, learn, support, and measure. Under each of these stages is featured a collection of web tools to help teachers get more out of that stage.

This is the slideshare that's part of the blogpost by the same name. Very useful to really understand what is meant by Education 3.0.

Technology's Impact on Education infographic

A great resource for all things concerning iPads and Education. It's worth joining the Ning.

A community effort to grade educational apps.

"Project RED conducted the first and only national study of education technology to focus on student achievement and financial implications. In our research of nearly 1,000 schools, we discovered a replicable design for successfully introducing technology into the classroom- one that leads to improved student performance and cost benefits. "

A broad list of apps for education, with reviews.

"As my students worked with me to invent our own version of student-centred learning, we realized that the three questions every student in our classroom had to answer were: What are you going to learn? How are you going to learn it? How are you going to show me your learning? This became our mantra - our framework for learning.  This is what it means to give students "control over their education.""

"Last year we published a list of 60+ blended learning articles. With the extensive use of blended learning in classrooms and lots of shared success stories, we doubled that total.  Following are 125 blogs by category."

This is great! Thanks for sharing this. It will help with my lit review on blended learning

Here's a trick to remove ads and those sketchy recommendations at the end of a YouTube video.

Technology allows students to take learning into their own hands.

Current thinking on learning and education

A review of studies that discuss screen time in relation to well-applied iPads in early education.

Here is a great ThinkLink with resources for implementing SAMR

Jamie McKenzie has been around for a long, long time along with his Educational Technology Journal "From Now On."