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Research and media skills:  research and media skills blended into the Standards as a wholeTo be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new. The need to conduct research and to produce and consume media is embedded into every aspect of today's curriculum. In like fashion, research and media skills and understandings are embedded throughout the Standards rather than treated in a separate section.

Summer learning research to support blended learning over the summer. 

"About Connected Learning Connected learning is when you're pursuing knowledge and expertise around something you care deeply about, and you're supported by friends and institutions who share and recognize this common passion or purpose. Click here to learn more about the connected learning model and the research that supports it. Read More >"

"My opinion supported by research and my social media friends. "

Danah Boyd

Short summary of where we stand on climate change at the present.  

Reading Comprehension on the Internet: Expanding Our Understanding of Reading Comprehension to Encompass New Literacies