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Middle Schoolers Flash Mob for Reading

Sedgwick Middle School in West Hartford, CT created and published a flash mob dance on SchoolTube to encourage reading to the tune of the hit Black Eyed Peas song "I Gotta Feeling" in their own rendition "Gotta Keep Reading." It's evident that the middle schoolers in this video are having a lot of fun expressing how much they love reading. This would be a fun tune to play before in-class reading time to get students excited and focused on reading.

SchoolTube Student Video Demonstrates Power of Digital Storytelling

Welcome to our first post for our new, Friday Films by SchoolTube series. Each week, we intend to share a little innovation, inspiration, and awe from students and teachers via video. Today we're excited to share with you a Tamalpais High School student's interpretation of a famous poem.

A Day in the Life

Tom’s TEDx Video

Jeff Kwitowski at K12, Inc.

Lori Gully Florida Virtual School

Gov. Bob Wise Announces Digital Learning Day

The Alliance for Excellent Education and its partners call on teachers, schools, principals, community leaders, parents, and students to participate in the first-ever national Digital Learning Day February 1, 2011.

Knewton Secures $33 Million to Expand Personalized Ed

Knewton announced today the completion of $33 million round of funding, led by Founders Fund and Pearson, to accelerate expansion of the company’s Adaptive Learning Platform™. The award-winning platform transforms third-party educational content by personalizing it to each individual student, allowing educators to remix any publisher’s educational materials. Adaptive…

Digital Media & Learning Competition Leverages Open Badges

A new game-based strategy called Digital Media and Learning Competition, hosted by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, HASTAC, and Mozilla, plans to leverage badges and badge systems to help people learn and demonstrate skills and knowledge.

BCG Reports Technology as a Catalyst for Change in Primary and Secondary Education

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) released “Unleashing the Potential of Technology in Education,” a report articulating how technology can serve as a catalyst for change in primary and secondary education, today.