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A list from the edudemic people listing "some of the best edtech reads out there, from essential texts on the subject to cutting-edge research, that will help you learn about and implement educational technologies and curricula that can truly benefit both you and your students."

From Karen Powers' blog. She is a teacher librarian, reader and part-time writer. These rules are "everything you need to know about turning your child into a reader".

A post from Richard Byrne. Read Write Web and Latitude recently conducted a survey of children in which they asked the kids to share the things they think computers and the Internet should do. As you might expect some of the responses were very imaginative. I look at the results of the survey as a preview of what computers and the Internet will do in the next decade or two. If you don't want to read the reports here and here, at least watch the video below summarizing some of the students' responses

Good variety of quotes relating to reading

This guide outlines a way to apply a more systematic approach to the teaching of reading in adult literacy and ESL classes.

lists of new books that will encourage adolescents to read.

How eyes move across the Web page when reading.

This is great Simon, thanks for sharing

Better we make the wise decision than the expedient one. Read the older educators... Read Ted Sizer and Deborah Meier and Herb Kohl... and feel the wisdom in their words. They write without hubris, but instead with an acknowledgment of their own flawed humanity. They write with an understand that they cannot be all things to all children, but with the knowledge that they must come as close as they can. I am far from religious, but I am reminded a lot these days of the serenity prayer: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.

Book club for edublogosphere tweeps - reading those books you've been meaning to get to for ages.

Australian Reading resource.

learning how to highlight a text as a part of a reading strategy requires some instruction

This is a great collection of blog posts, references, reports, prognostications, (100 in total) speculating on the future of learning and education. I've read a couple but now have a real task ahead of me to take in the rest, wish me luck.

100 Blogs Every New Teacher Should Read - via Vicki Davis.

"Read and Write for Google is an excellent Chrome app that provides text-to-speech functions from your browser. They have just released a free iPad and Android app. The apps provide text to speech functions, which are great for ESL, learning disabled, visually challenged and struggling readers, on your device, just like the web app does in the Chrome Browser and Chromebooks.

"The Hindu PDF" is a website that gives you free PDFs of all today's newspapers. If you are interested in reading the newspaper, there is good news for you. Now you can download Hindu PDF and read today's latest newspaper for free without spending money on your phone or computer. Now many of you are thinking about how this can happen. I'll tell you how. this website "The Hindu PDF" uploads PDFs of every major newspaper on its website every day. So you can come to this website every day and get the PDF of the latest newspaper. Even for free. That means you don't have to spend a single rupee. I will tell you, the Hindu PDF is the best newspaper of Hindu News.

Here you can download The Hindu pdf for free, daily The Hindu newspaper pdf today download. also The Hindu Pdf Editorial, The Hindu Pdf ad-free etc.

If you are interested in building a classroom culture where thinking is noticed, named and celebrated, there are three books which make essential reading. They provide clear evidence for why teachers should focus their efforts on encouraging and normalising thinking and offer research-backed strategies to support this. The books are the result of ongoing research by Harvard's Project Zero and their lead author Ron Ritchhart.