Thoughts on the purposes of  education 

• Framework for 21st Century Learning
• “Only Connect…: The Goals of a Liberal Education”. The American Scholar. 1998. 67(4)
• Experience and Education (Dewey, 1938)
• share other articles we could post here that might influence our thinking about how to think about the purposes of technology in education…

Youth and technology

• Generation Media2: Media in the LIves of 8-18 year olds. (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2010)
• Growing up Digital, New York Times, published November 21st, 2010
• “Students and Technology, Constant Companions” New York Times, published: November 20, 2010
• Digital Generation Project:  edutopia, 5/27/09
• Digital Nation PBS Frontline, 2010
• Sugata Mitra: The child driven education (Ted Talks 2010)
• other links?

Teachers ideas about how and why to use technology in their classroom:

• “Teachers’ Views on Technology in the Classroom,”  New York Times, published: November 20, 2010,
•  B.F. Skinner’s “Teaching Machine & Programmed Learning” (YouTube)
• other links?

What can we learn from people’s use of technology about how to strengthen our teaching?

• Good video games and good learning (Gee, J., 2005)
• Why are video games such effective learning tools?  (Gee, J.  2012, Edutopia)