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"I'm putting the finishing touches on my paper on badges for our panel tomorrow at the Digital Media and Learning Conference in Chicago, "Democratic Futures": http://dml2013.dmlhub.net/ In preparing I'm aided by two invaluable resources by Sheryl Grant and Kristan Shawgo, both part of our HASTAC and our DML bicoastal teams. They have put together a scholarly, annotated bibliography of 160 or so separate articles, studies, and op ed pieces on badges, representing the full spectrum of views: http://hastac.org/digital-badges-bibliography "

"Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Education, and Why We Should Care"

"The EdUmatics project aims to provide teachers of secondary mathematics with support to learn to use and integrate technology within their classrooms. The resources for professional development, whilst aimed at teachers, include a range of tasks for students to enable them to use technology within modelling and problem-solving activities. These are available in the different project languages. The resources include links to free and trial software, applications and animations in addition to tasksheets and helpsheets that can be adapted for different scenarios. If you are a teacher trainer, there is additional guidance to support you to use the professional development modules with teachers and trainee teachers."

" Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLE), and learn more at tedprize.org. "

"Teachers and students can use Gooru to search for rich collections of multimedia resources, digital textbooks, videos, games and quizzes created by educators in the Gooru community."

The School of Commoning is a growing worldwide community of people participating in the global and local commons. We support the developing commons movement, as well as interested organizations and individuals, with well-organized knowledge resources and educational programs on commoning and the commons.

"Education Blogs by Discipline Edit 21 0 752… This is a place to list P-12-oriented blogs that are worth sharing with others. Only list really good blogs (not wikis or web sites), please!"