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).

• Experts push gaming as a ‘serious’ element of higher education:
  http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/experts-push-gaming-as-a-serious-element-of-higher-education/
• The Role of the Teacher in Blended Learning: Data, Management, and Student Support:
  http://www.scilearn.com/blog/role-of-the-teacher-in-blended-learning.php
• Online learning offers alternative for advanced students:
  http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2012/04/17/too-smart-school-online-learning-offers-alternative
• Florida High School Valedictorian Creates Innovative Tech Program to Boost Math Grades
  http://www.timesunion.com/business/press-releases/article/Florida-High-School-Valedictorian-Creates-3491105.php
• Is There Too Much Hype Surrounding Technology in Education?
  http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/04/17/video_game_learning_distance_school_and_education_technology_hype_.html
• How will data mining shape the student experience?
  http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/me-edu-debating-the-coming-personalization-of-higher-ed/36057
• New Facebook Effort Targets Educating School Counselors
  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/…
  
• Can student data open “a world of … services that could transform the student experience”?
  http://chronicle.com/article/Unlocking-Student-Data-Could/131551/
• Teacher discusses 5 Internet tools she finds useful in her role as a teacher:
  http://www.guampdn.com/article/20120416/OPINION02/204160317
• The flip: Classwork at home, homework in class -
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-flip-classwork-at-home-homework-in-class/2012/04/15/gIQA1AajJT_story.html

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About Kelly Walsh

Kelly Walsh is Chief Information Officer at The College of Westchester, in White Plains, NY, where he also teaches. In 2009, Walsh founded EmergingEdTech.com. As an education and instructional technology advocate, he frequently delivers presentations on a variety of related topics at schools and conferences across the U.S. Walsh is also an author, and online educator, regularly running Flipped Class Workshops online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com and have a listen!

[Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, or those of other writers, and not those of my employer. - K. Walsh]