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I am wondering what the group thinks of this infographic, and whether it is about the tech, or about the learning.   I'd appreciate your perspective.

Common Craft does an excellent job of simplifying new concepts that are easy to understand.  Their videos can get conversations started, peek our interests, and ease anxiety about change.  This video on blended learning shows how many classrooms are already in the blended beginning stage - teachers just don't label it.

A lot of the teachers I work with really like Schoology as their LMS.

Article that identifies the promise of online learning communities.

I can't view the article without an account, but thought this set of bulleted points was interesting. They are all powerful in themselves, but the idea of connecting them is a very large picture. Wonder if there is any sense of starting point, or if it is all mixed together? -Access knowledge that might not be available locally; -Share knowledge and learn from one another; -Create knowledge by supplying collaborative tools that combine 'creative geographies,' or like-minded educators; and -Build professional identity, relationship and collaboration, including investment in and ownership of education as a profession.

This edtech infographic shows how teachers and parents feel about technology in the classroom.

I'd like to know more about creating infographics. Any info appreciated! Thanks

As a teacher and a parent, I feel too much of anything is not good. I do not like them sitting in front of a 'TV screen' during the day. I think it is too much screen time. There are also health issues to it. My daughter has fused bones in her neck because she has an iPad for school that all the teachers use and she looks down at it and has created problems in her neck. I realize we have to get the students ready for the high tech world they will live in, but before all the high tech, we did just fine with the 'old school' methods and helped teach the kids that came up with the technology. 'Old school' can't be that bad!

There is some helpful info from Carrie Russell, ALA Copyright Office (American Library Association) and yes you can. Her points were shared at a workshop. This doesn't summarize that, but is another reference point http://www.slj.com/2012/09/authors-illustrators/interviews/interview-alas-carrie-russell-talks-about-copyright-in-the-classroom/#_

I really appreciate this information, which is a bit different than past information. It does not, however, deal with the online aspect of a private account, which I think goes beyond the pieces of this. In other words, it seems that you could show a clip in a blended classroom, but you could not rip the content and then load it to your class site. I think I am correct on that.

This is interesting because I have not used Netflix in my classroom, but I would not have thought about asking if it was alright to use.

Today's girls are tomorrow's engineers: creative, inquisitive, analytical, and smart. They can see solutions to everyday problems in random items like bags of apples and pencils. It's pretty amazing. And boy, do we need them. Here are three facts you probably didn't know about women and engineering. That's right.