Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 08-09-10

This week’s collection of Education Technology article and resource Tweets.

(Originally posted on Twitter by@EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers).

• India to Distribute a Million Tablet Computers to Its Universities next year! http://bit.ly/dnTCvP
• India's $35 tablet “fairly impressive”. What kind of impact might it have in Education? http://bit.ly/chS3I0
• Bill Gates thinks high quality free Internet based college education only 5 years away? http://bit.ly/9TtFz1
• Study indicates that just giving PCs to kids is a distraction, not a positive way to apply Ed Tech: http://bit.ly/dbka6C
• Great Diigo listing of “Skype for Educators” resources, by Sarah Eaton: http://bit.ly/dbqUjo
• Article considers question, “Do kids learn as well on iPads, e-books?”: http://bit.ly/c8ledd
• Colleges Use Facebook to Let Freshmen Find Their Own Roommates: http://bit.ly/bfSvt9
• Article reminded me of VerizonFoundation's Thinkfinity site, some real nice resources there! http://bit.ly/ctuPEG
• Liked this Chronicle article, “The Open, Social, Participatory Future of Online Learning”: http://bit.ly/bMFTIE
• A new Directory of Education Blogs from Edublogger: http://bit.ly/bCO9mT

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