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This time in the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) (free, requires registration, links are to abstracts):

Diagnostic models of intelligent tutor system for teaching skills to solve algebraic equations
Treating metadata as annotations: separating the content markup from the content
A Digital Library of Language Learning Exercises
Accessibility of Educational Multimedia: in search of specific standards
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Something to reflect on on today’s New York times (and not really about the OLPC project): Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops.
The students at Liverpool High have used their school-issued laptops to exchange answers on tests, download pornography and hack into local businesses. When the school tightened its network security, a 10th grader not […]

Whenever you do something in the classroom with a performance increase in mind, you should try to measure its effect. Measuring is hard. Measuring the effectiveness of teaching and learning is very hard. But please, don’t you ever take seriously anyone claiming that something is working because grades have improved.
Case in point:
Today’s high school students […]