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Unpacking the Science: How Playing Music Changes the Learning Brain

Research into the effects of music on the brain's executive function and brain plasticity are beginning to reveal the connection between literacy, academic success and learning to play a musical instrument. http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/unpacking-the-science-how-playing-music-changes-the-learning-brain/
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The Learning Registry: A First Look The federal government plans to make its educational resources much easier to find and use through a new Learning Registry. The project will make federal learning resources, wherever they are stored, easier to find, easier to access and easier to integrate into learning environments around the country and world. The Learning Registry will enable teachers, students, parents, schools, governments, corporations and non-profits to build and access better, more interconnected and personalized learning solutions needed for a 21st century education. The project will accomplish this goal by identifying and implementing existing technologies and interfaces, as well as exposing learning resources to search engines so they are easily discoverable. We want to ensure that innovators, educators and the general public can access these resources easily by enabling the development of learning solutions utilizing federal assets in new and unanticipated

7 Things to Know About QR Codes

Education website Educause.com has a pdf available which discusses implications for using qr codes in education.  There is a basic overview, plus an interesting scenario of just one possible use. http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7046.pdf