Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 01-30-12

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).

A Disrupted Higher-Ed System (pace of innnovation & pressure on tradition are quickening): http://chronicle.com/blogs/next/2012/01/26/a-disrupted-higher-ed-system/
Google Launches Redesigned Education Site: mindshift.kqed.org/2012/01/google…
New Media Consortium Names 10 Top ‘Metatrends’ Shaping Educational Technology: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/new-media-consortium-names-10-top-metatrends-shaping-educational-technology/35234
Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Fran, CA Mar 1 -3: http://dml2012.dmlcentral.net/
EDUCATION: Challenge to schools: Embracing digital textbooks - http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20120201/NEWS01/120201033/EDUCATION-Challenge-schools-Embracing-digital-textbooks
Why gaming in the classroom may soon be the norm: http://www.firstpost.com/tech/why-gaming-in-the-classroom-may-soon-be-the-norm-198475.html
Universities begin to incorporate mobile applications in classrooms: http://sundial.csun.edu/2012/01/universities-begin-to-incorporate-mobile-applications-in-classrooms/
Answers to your ‘flipped school’ questions (from CNN ‘schools of thought’ blog): http://bit.ly/xRuuaR
Officials warming up to personal technology in classroom: http://bit.ly/yTaXKA
Internet in schools as ‘vital’ as electricity: http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/6334502/Internet-in-schools-as-vital-as-electricity
In some schools, parents and PTAs to buy technology: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/01/29/2967994/in-some-schools-parents-and-ptas.html#storylink=cpy
Harvard Crimson: Professors … must constantly innovate to serve students better: http://bit.ly/nrWD7Q