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"Economically disadvantaged students, who often use the computer for remediation and basic skills, learn to do what the computer tells them, while more affluent students, who use it to learn programming and tool applications, learn to tell the computer what to do. Those who cannot claim computers as their own tool for exploring the world never grasp the power of technology...They are controlled by technology as adults--just as drill-and-practice routines controlled them as students."Source: Toward Digital Equity: Bridging the Divide in Education

a collection of Writing tools online

Wiki providing tools for teams. "Teampedia is a collaborative encyclopedia of free team building activities, free icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams that anyone can edit.

Great list of web2.0 tools worth checking out!

"This presentation provides an in-depth overview of the micro-blogging tool, Twitter. The links to the tips, tricks, tools, research, and other items included in the presentation are listed below."

A great list of excellent web tools for different learning styles.

A tool that would be a useful collaborative space for upper elementary/middle school students. Allows you to add multimedia to a page easily, and organise them as you see fit.

"Take Me Back.to - Time Machine Tool"

Schools have the ability to support teacher innovation, risk-taking, and collaboration by setting up a support and mentoring system in their schools.

sounds like a wallwisher kind of a tool

Ontract is Real-time Analytics for Education. We connect and analyze school data to provide educators with powerful analytics, metrics and tools.

A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool The popularity of video games is not the enemy of education, but rather a model for best teaching strategies. Games insert players at their achievable challenge level and reward player effort and practice with acknowledgement of incremental goal progress, not just final product. The fuel for this process is the pleasure experience related to the release of dopamine.

a cool tool that lets you choose up to 4 factors to help find you the next best book to read, including happy/sad, funny/serious, safe/disturbing, expected/unpredictable, etc.

hHelping students learn how to learn: That's what most educators strive for, and that's the goal of inquiry learning. That skill transfers to other academic subject areas and even to the workplace where employers have consistently said that they want creative, innovative and adaptive thinkers. Inquiry learning is an integrated approach that includes kinds of learning: content, literacy, information literacy, learning how to learn, and social or collaborative skills. Students think about the choices they make throughout the process and the way they feel as they learn. Those observations are as important as the content they learn or the projects they create.

Gates & McArthur foundation looking to sponsor a version of Sim City for Educational use. 

"GlassLab is working with commercial game companies, assessment experts, and those versed in digital classrooms to build SimCityEDU, a downloadable game designed for sixth graders. Scheduled to be be released in the fall of 2013, it builds on SimCity's city management theme, but provides specific challenges to players in the subject of STEM. "The big pain point we've heard from teachers is that they cannot entertain their kids to the level that they are being entertained outside of the classroom," said Jessica Lindl, general manager of GlassLab. "They want to be able to create meaningful learning experiences and they just can't compete with the digital tools their kids are accessing all the time.""

"Video games are just tools, outlets for people to express themselves in as vast a variety of ways as anything else. They are still relatively new creations, and the unknown can frighten anyone, hence the uproar that's followed games for years. The same uproar and indignation that followed rock and roll in the '50s and novels in the 19th century. This is why the Violent Content Research Act of 2013 is ultimately a good thing. It will lead to, ideally, a deeper understanding of how we interact with games. For parents, children, players, academics, and everyone else with a vested interest in a gaming future, the most important thing is to maintain perspective."

compares different screencasting tools available

way too much to read - but at least it is all gathered in one space and you know where to look for it if you need it

Claco, ClassDojo, Diigo, DropBox, Edmondo, Evernote, Glogster, Google Apps, Google Drive, Google Hangout, KidBlog, LiveBinders, Pinterest, Socrative, ThingLink, Storify, Twitter, Wordle