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This website, hosted by the Learning Technology Center in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin, is designed to be a central point of access to the wide range of research, projects, and other resources related to the use of mobile technologies in learning environments

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I was looking for some instructional resources for using Google Apps and one of my students, Randon Ruggles from Minneapolis, sent me a plethora of them. While I feel that writing this blog is important because I can share information with you. the real reason is so that I can put it someplace where I won't lose it.

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There have always been people who have believed that lifelong learning is a worthwhile process. Increasingly, scientific research is proving them correct and technology is making it easier – adults can now take online college classes for the rest of their lives.

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The course description: Participants will explore teaching and learning strategies utilizing social media to enhance student learning. This course will showcase various applications and how they can be used to enhance communication, collaboration, and student engagement. Social and legal issues relating to the use of social media in higher education will also be explored. Participants will develop a plan to appropriately integrate social media into a specific course.

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Learnist is a new site (still in beta) that aims to be like Pinterest but for sharing learning resources. On Learnist you can create pinboards of materials organized around a topic. You can create multiple boards within your account and make your boards collaborative. You can pin images, videos, and text to your boards by using the Leanist bookmarklet, by manually entering the URL of a resource, or by uploading materials to your boards. Take a look at the video below for a brief introduction to Learnist.

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GoClass is a teaching application for tablet devices that redefines the boundaries of computing in the classroom. Connect with your students like never before, customize and fine-tune your lesson plans on the fly, engage students in new ways and continuously evaluate their understanding while you are in class.

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In other cases misconceptions can be dangerous or limiting. False beliefs about how we learn can be the absolute worst, keeping people from trying to learn certain things because they’ve been told they’re not capable.

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Why we work together – cheating as learning

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Here is a list of excellent books for parents, teachers and librarians to share with kids who are learning to read.

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As I started a go-to list of the best educational iPad apps for kids, the list got so long, I split up my posts into categories. So, today we’ll start with my favorite iPad apps for literacy — reading and writing for toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary-age kids.

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A simple way to place useful, formative classroom lessons over any Web page.

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In support of Free Books, Cambridge has agreed to keep this manuscript available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Readers are free to copy and distribute the text; they are also free to modify it, which allows them to adapt the book to different needs, and to help develop new material.

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One of the most interesting elements of the presentation was that Masie used all photographs or images and barely any text. He explained his reasoning behind this was related to research that he had just read where it found that bullet points in PowerPoint presentations may not lead to memory recall.

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Education startups are all the rage right now—another day, another funding round for entrepreneurs hungry to disrupt education. Many of these online learning startups—Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, Codecademy, Treehouse, Course Hero—get lumped together when we talk about how technology is transforming education as we know it.

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Educational technology is hot (finally!). Thanks to edX and Udacity and Khan Academy and Coursera and the Stanford AI course our world is getting lots of attention.  Lots of people have lots of opinions about the growth of the massively open online course (MOOC), but as with most things a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 

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Teachers who spend time actually thinking through assignments that align with the learning outcomes of a course are the most effective at assessing the learning that has taken place.

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Albert Wenger is right: we are woefully prepared for internet age job market. The three of us graduated in Computer Science in college, following a solid engineering cursus. But during the numerous courses we took we never heard of Github nor StackOverflow. People attending creative and artistic formation don’t hear of Etsy neither.

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Is your organization offering learning opportunities that are based on an outdated model?<br /><br />Or have you positioned your organization to offer learning opportunities that are proven to be successful today and align with your participants’ learning?

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Do standards subjugate students?

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The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about computers, or that computers are somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. There are no books on how to learn Beethoven, or Quantum Physics, or even Dog Grooming in a few days. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.

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