This article describes how some school districts in low income areas in Florida are utilizing digital libraries to help supplement their reading and exposure to technical devices for their students. It helps students by reading out loud to them and helping them understand the language and phonics in addition to giving them the skills to learn how to use the devices.

A very interesting but brief article about how three people involved in social media / high tech decided to get together and try building a start up to bring more tech into classrooms. It discusses their initial failure, which I appreciate, and how they worked around this failure to find a model that worked for them.

This link talks about Disney's new educationally based games for children, where they focus on math, but will also have ones for science, language arts and social skills. The article has some detractors, saying that Disney isn't reinventing the wheel with this, and that it isn't geared towards schools, but towards parents. I feel that it's a cleverly disguised marketing tool for Disney and isn't really pushing solid skill building.

A recent Radio Boston story about how classrooms in Massachusetts are implementing tablets and the potential short term and long term impacts of technology and extended screentime will have on children.

I love this video series on Youtube. It's PBS, which is cool in its own right, but this host gives great commentary and some good data to back up why Minecraft is an awesome educational tool.