New Learning Times' (NLT) High Five

Submitted by Laura Scheiber on Wed, 08/08/2012 - 4:07pm.
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We are piloting a week's worth of content from New Learning Times' (NLT) High Five. High Five is a curated content stream highlighting five daily "must read" stories from various sources.

Here are NLT's top picks of most interesting stories on learning for the day:

I. The birth of K-12 E-Textbooks
Full story from The Journal

II. Robot teachers? Now there’s a parent-teacher conference I would go to!
Full story from Slate

III. Rows of desks are old school: Meet the new learning environment.
Full story from Mindshift

IV. Worth a try? Authors' Guild seeks $750 compensation for each scanned Google Book
Full story from The Digital Reader

V. Is our higher-ed system sustainable?
Full story from The Economist