GAMEFUL PLAY: A new Brookings report, "How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education," showcases a few of the ways that blogs, wikis, social media platforms and video games are implemented in schools. Overall, it's a pretty optimistic take on the ways that low information costs broaden classroom dynamics to allow for new activities and collaboration. There's nothing particularly earth-shattering here, but scattered tidbits of use cases and new research and tools may be of interest to some folks.