Great idea courtesy of @patrickmlarkin #LFL16 https://t.co/GEK7COLmP1

We Need to Prepare Teachers for New Digital Roles with Open Education #GoOpen #OER https://t.co/OSD3pwYczw

From NPR – A new study confirms what many Americans already knew deep in their hearts: We’re not good at math. Not only that, but when it comes to technology skills, we’re dead last compared with other developed countries.

Americans rank last in problem-solving with technology…Yikes

Good article from the Atlantic

Nice post on the Why of OER by U.S. Director of Ed Tech. Joseph South

Love this https://t.co/jsXYnx9lWP

Good stuff from Richard Wells. H/T to Beth Holland

From Richard Byrne: “Where Wikipedia stood-out was in getting students started on their searches for primary source documents.” Thinking this also may be a good way to start to build resources to replace textbooks

From Richard Byrne: “the problem is that students don’t know enough strategies to help them dive deeper in their Internet research. In the slides embedded below I share my favorite search tips. The slides include some videos that demonstrate how to use the methods I’ve mentioned.”