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This website talks about technology is once again changing the way the school system functions. People are beginning to be able to get their school books online through mobile apps and then use additional apps to create documents. By being able to do this, students will be able to customize their curriculum to how they learn best.

A great lesson plan from Richard Byrne about how he used QR codes to meet common core math standards. These would be great to create and share.

I have to admit that it was very hard to put into a few short words my thoughts on adaptive learning. I didn't really intend for it to center on the testing piece but I guess that is what the editors thought hadn't already been covered, although I do agree with everything I said on it. Of course, many will say we need much more than testing but I think the big point is that pencil and paper don't cut it. We are wasting time with how we test now and can be much more targeted in terms of what students know and how we can teach. Your thoughts? The biggest thing that bothers me about all these apps is that we have no learning analytics - no feedback loop at all to parents or teachers. I literally have to watch my son play his ipad learning games to really understand where he is and what I need to do to fill things in. 

I know that some are saying that we can't gamify education. But what happens when problems become a game and we compete to find answers? This article talks about foldit and how crowdsourcing has become a possibility for something that can work when it becomes a game. This is a great read for those exploring how we will use games in education. I would suggest that this is an approach that we could use. ". Foldit, a novel experiment created by a group of scientists and game designers at the University of Washington, had asked the gamers-some still in middle school and few boasting a background in the sciences, much less microbiology-to determine the how proteins would fold in the enzyme. Within hours, thousands of people were both competing against (and collaborating with) one another. After three weeks, they had succeeded where the microbiologists and the computers had failed. "This is the first example I know of game players solving a long-standing scientific problem," David Baker, a Foldit co-creator, wrote at the time."

It Techs kids through technology like playing games.

this is a place that researches game based learning and how it works

Justification of the purchase of a tablet

How to make yourself go tablet: how it can help and what it can do for you. 

explanation of the internet of things from the ny times

smart devices will link humans to energy conservation transportation health care food distribution

This website talks mainly about the different options you can do on the internet. It goes on to talk about low costs to find on the internet.

horizon report

This website shows how Learning Analytics can help in different things, like School, and technology

This is the horizon report that the whole project is based on.

latest education technology competition

This is quite informative and has a few examples about gesture based compting is already beign used in the educational system.