Brownwood schools aim for paperless classrooms The district earned $500,000 with the state’s Vision 2020 Immersion grant that pays for every eighth-grade student to have a laptop as early as January. Blincoe (Brownwood Independent School District Superintendent) believes that grant probably came through largely because the district already dedicated about $1.2 million to equip all 1,000 high school students with laptops this fall. Call for Papers: Technology & Social Media in education Some suggested topics are listed below: - Social and participatory media (e.g., blogs, wikis, microblogging, video sharing) in teaching & learning. - Mobile technologies, txting, or microblogging in learning, or implications for social justice & politics. - Practical or philosophical discussions on open content or open educational resources. - Implications & trends regarding open publishing & academia. - Online communities as formal and/or informal learning environments. - Openness and/or networks in teaching & learning. - Case studies of successful technology integration into learning environments. - Discussions of distance, online, distributed, or flexible learning models in practice. - Changing views & frameworks of knowledge and implications for education. - Social networks, participatory media, and the implications for information & media literacy. - Personal learning networks (PLNs), personal learning environments (PLEs) or related frameworks. - Other topics related to social media, technology, and education. The rest of my favorite links are here.