Now that Labor Day is around the corner and summer is coming to a close, I’m hoping folks can share a bit of information about “what you did on your summer vacation” (ha!) When you have a moment, post a comment below and share the following two bits of information:

1. What was the best article or book related to education and/or teaching that you read this summer?
2. What was the best non-work-related book you read this summer?

I’ll share the results anonymously in a future tip – hopefully we’ll end up with a list of books and articles related to teaching and learning that others may want to look over, as well as a “fun” list of everyone’s best summer reads.

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Malcolm Brown, Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth, recently held a “geographically distributed” focus group to ask students for their thoughts on “what educators should be thinking about as we plan our learning environments for the next two to four years.” The fourteen students who responded provided thoughtful feedback and some interesting comments.

As Brown notes, “Perhaps the most succinct formulation of these ideas was: "I believe the most important thing to keep in mind about learning and technology is that they should be considered in that order." The message here is that technology needs to clearly serve learning.”

For the complete column, follow the link below to Brown’s EDUCAUSE Review article:

Learning and Technology, “In that order”
Educause Review, vol. 44, no. 4 (July/August 2009): 62–63

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