How We Learn: Research, News &Perspectives is a blog written by Philip Bell, Associate Professor of Cognitive Studies at the University of Washington. The side bar has links to Learning Research Centers, Consensus Research Reports & Handouts, Professional Societies, and other Blogs related to learning research.

RESOURCE: Nanocos -- The Card Game of Nanotechnology Concepts
"Think of it as Po-Ke-Mon focused on really, really small phenomena..." Link to a project developing an interactive Card Game to teach science concepts at the nanoscale.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTS: Interactive Physics Simulations
Link to Web-based interactive physics simulations built by the Physics Education Technology project at the University of Colorado.

ARTICLE: Report identifies ed-tech trends to watch
Link to an eSchool News article on the New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE report on emerging trends in educational technology. The 6 trends are User-created content, Social networking, Mobile phones, Virtual worlds, New scholarship and emerging forms of publication, and Massively multiplayer educational gaming. The post also links to a critique of the report, which argues that businesses would better support schools by investing in improving teaching rather than investing in new technological toys.

STUDY: New Computer Model Predicts Crowd Behavior
Link to a report in Science Daily on a project developing a computer Model of how people move through dense urban environments that takes into account individual behavior and characteristics as well as crowd-level factors such as "panic". The model is intended to simulate urban crowds in situations such as evacuations, catastrophes, and epidemics, which cannot be experimented with in real life.