"The Playbook is designed to help K-12 school educators plan for the transition to a rich, interactive, and personalized digital learning environment. The Playbook offers advice and considerations to help schools ensure robust and persistent connectivity to the digital content, understand the perspectives of the variety of device users in a school environment, and plan for the transition to digital learning.
"Apple® announced iBooks® 2 for iPad®, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that's dynamic, engaging and truly interactive. iBooks textbooks offer iPad users gorgeous, fullscreen textbooks with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos, unrivaled navigation and much more. iBooks textbooks can be kept up to date, don't weigh down a backpack and never have to be returned. Leading education services companies including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill and Pearson will deliver educational titles on the iBookstore℠ with most priced at $14.99 or less, and with the new iBooks Author, a free authoring tool available today, anyone with a Mac® can create stunning iBooks textbooks."
"The goal of this collaborative wiki is to "unmask the digital truth" with respect to the reasons some leaders today are overfiltering and overblocking web 2.0 sites in schools and libraries, and provide reasonable alternatives which support broader student and teacher access to these sites."
"An interactive educational tool, Curiosity in the Classroom provides materials on a variety of topics ranging from robotics to artificial intelligence, and includes in-class and at-home resources to encourage insightful conversation about life's most fascinating questions."
"Starting in the 2011-12 school year, Internet Essentials will be available to eligible households with children who receive free lunches through the National School Lunch Program."