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inkle is a Cambridge-based start-up founded on eleven years combined experience in the video-game industry. Our founders, Joseph Humfrey and Jon Ingold, have worked on every major platform there is for digital media, from Xbox and Playstation to iPad and Kindle; making games and interactive stories about every topic, from cooking to go-kart racing, from Victorian magicians to telepathic Martians.

When you watch this, be sure to follow it up with this, so the whole story is told: http://dianeravitch.net/2013/05/13/geoffrey-canada-just-tell-the-truth/

This is a wiki set up as a student-directed learning portal for Year 8s learning about space. It includes compulsory and free-choice activities. Students must accumulate 100 points. Analysis showed that student results improved significantly.

Subtext is a free iPad app that allows classroom groups to exchange ideas in the pages of digital texts. You can also layer in enrichment materials, assignments and quizzes-opening up almost limitless opportunities to engage students and foster analysis and writing skills.

The new Timeline will dig up some seemingly long-lost memories, and many you will wish to forget. Some will choose to delete their Facebook altogether, while others will simply leave things be, deterred by the arduous task of deleting the vast amount of data they are presented with.Here's an alternative I'm informing my senior students of..

"With venture capital flooding into the education sector, dozens of companies popping up every day, thousands of schools buying into new technology, and millions of students and lifelong learners around the world getting on board, we need to ask if we've built the edtech house on a foundation of solid rock, or sand."

According to this survey of teachers, conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the College Board and the National Writing Project, the internet has opened up a vast world of information for today's students, yet students' digital literacy skills have yet to catch up....Given these concerns, it is not surprising that 47% of these teachers strongly agree and another 44% somewhat believe that courses and content focusing on digital literacy should be incorporated into every school's curriculum.

Children will ... be required to come up with new innovations and to develop their big ideas in order to change the world.

Fascinating article from the blog for the Canva Design School

"Books are in a conflicted state. Should they still exist in a digital era? Will they all be replaced by Kindles and Nooks? These questions dominate the discussion of books in our time. A select group of artists, who use books as their medium, engage this discussion from another angle. From pop culture pop-ups, to surreal sculptural stories, to reformations of antique sacred texts, these creators re-envision what the experience of a book can be. At times playful, and other times profound, this episode explores the boundaries of one of the most important human creations. "

Microsoft Surface Studio is the company's first desktop PC. It is easily the most attention-grabbing new PC design of the year, even if most of its individual ideas like - external control knobs, tabletop PCs - have been seen before in different contexts. The new Studio and Surface Dial provided a stark, inventive contrast, especially for graphic designers, artists and video editors who scooped up new Macs without question in years past.

When Valentine's Day comes around, everyone spends a lot of time telling guys how to please "her". But no one seems to offer up many suggestions for the guys. Traditional Valentine's Day gifts probably don't speak to your guy the same way they speak to you. Well, in this short article we've broken our gift suggestions down by interest, and we have both an affordable and splurge option. Here are the 15 exclusive gifts for every type of man.

Made up of a collection of Queenslanders' natural disaster photos.

Web 2.0 tools for 2012 tools and trends for teachers to keep up with their tech savvy students.

Very easy to set up backchannel software that could be used for student input during a class session.

We just wrapped up our popular workshop Integrating iPads and Tablet Computers into Library Services. Today's workshop was particularly noteworthy in light of Apple's recent rollout of the iPad 3.

Welcome to the 'iPad in Education' web site - concerned with using Apple's iPad for learning and teaching. Although this is based in the UK, the site's content will reflect practice from other counties and contexts in order to explore and learn from a wide field. I am Ian Wilson (www.ianwilson.biz) a freelance Apple Education Mentor based in the north west of England (Twitter: @Ian__Wilson). I have set up this site as I believe the iPad signals the opportunity for a transformation in how technology is used in schools, colleges and universities. I am interested in looking at all age ranges, all abilities across all areas of the curriculum and keen to see if the iPad makes technology more transparent and cross-curricular as it should be.

two-minute animations on various aspects of critical thinking, aimed at school ages 8 to 10, or kids between the ages of 13 and 15, but also designed to resonate with grown-ups. Inspired by the animation style of the 1950s, most recognizably Saul Bass, the films are designed to promote a set of educational resources on critical thinking by TechNYou, an emerging technologies public information project funded by the Australian government.

"Baloney Detection Kit" for grown-ups from the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and Skeptic Magazine editor Michael Shermer - a 10-point checklist for assessing the believability of a claim

" a little macro that pulls the cost figure from each item's record, adds them all up, and provides a total. We present it in kind of a cutesy context, but the intent is to show people how much they save by using the library. Check it out:"