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Week 6 - Recommended reading "The Frameworks Institute, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, provides a set of framing research reports and application tools to help education leaders increase public support for digital learning initiatives. Their main findings and recommendations are summarized in a Message Memo about Talking About Learning and Digital Media and a related video, and the site provides several additional resources" from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 Recommended resources "A group of innovative district leaders share their thoughts about the leadership of digital learning transitions" from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 recommended resources video "District and school leaders emphasize the importance of collaborative leadership, the role of the principals, and the challenges of educators keeping up with the students" from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 - Recommended Readings "In his blog, Kelly Walsh provides a good, succinct summary of common flaws in educational technology implementations." from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 Recommended Reading "In a chapter from The Digital Classroom: How Technology is Changing the Way We Teach and Learn (Harvard Education Letter, 2000), Glenn Kleiman describes five myths that, as one of your MOOC-Ed leaders, he wishes were much more out of date now that we are more than a decade later" from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 Recommended Video "Video (2:37) District and school leaders share their strategies for leading their digital learning transition, with a focus on building collaboration. Also available is a recent Transformation Talk by Superintendent Mark Edwards at the Discovery Future@Now conference that provides a good example of communicating about changes in schools required to take advantage of the potential of digital learning" From MOOC-Ed

Week 6 Expert Panel with Patrick Larkin.

"The U.S. National Gallery of Art hosts more than 25,000 images of famous and not-so-famous works of art." from Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers.

Blog post with a list of free apps.