1) Blended Learning - Challenging or Conforming to Institutions:
Three areas of blending: Space (virtual and real), Tools, Activities
In each trend is towared public|self-regulated and away from private|teacher/institution regulated, but institutions are biased other way and have a lot of inertia
Blending assumes fairly intellectually motivated, autonomous and technologically competent students, but evidence is not in that those assumptions are sound and in fact indicate students are less motivated and autonomous than before.

2) Engaging Slideware - Reflections on PowerPoint everywhere
- research shows that students in PP-enriched courses do not perform better than those without, but do rate their instructors higher
- unthinking application of PowerPoint default settings is so widespread as to present basic knowledge as a linear sequence of bulleted lists
- tendency to not turn Projector off once it's turned on - focusses attention away from presenter and audience

3) Exercises on Mobile Devices - lead to learning?
Technology can't overcome cultural/institutional bias. If the institution and students care only about test results, then encouraging reflection or collaboration is unlikely to succeed and cool technology won't overcome that.
Example: Hot Pot Multiple choice exercises deployed to hand-helds with objective of helping students reflect on material and work towards preferred answers conflicted with preference for "is it the right answer on the exam".

4) How to Teach and Assess Conative Domain achievement
Conative: Will, Desire to Learn, Level of Effort, Mental Energy, Determination
Net generation worse than predecessors in achievement in this sort of task
Obvious applications of technology work against Conative development - but that may just purifying tendencies already there in educational practice
Conative skills developed by educational tasks which are:
- ill-structured
- authentic or reality-based
- require varied and iterative engagement
- have multiple good answers
- tend to blur distinction between teaching and learning