Good  review and interesting comments.  I think the increasing inclusion of technology in all kinds of teaching is inevitable at this point, but as Matthew Kay points out in Putting Technology in its Place, students will be the first to point out when it’s being used effectively or not. I’m not sure he’d agree with your take on teaching literature though based on how his students use online chat.
    “They now walk each other through difficult readings of “The Odyssey”
   and “Hamlet” and return to class with stronger understandings.
   Our projects are regularly published — which leads to comments
    and ongoing conversations with the outside world.”

  I think it’s also fair to question the potential downside of ‘twtich speed’ as this recent piece on NPR points out that ““Multitasking causes a kind of brownout in the brain. Meyer says all the lights go dim because there just isn’t enough power to go around.”.  

  I have a different take on the role of memorization in language learning, but thanks for inspiring me to get my WordPress blog going as well.  Thanks also for providing a good example of what I was looking for in a ‘Resource Review’.

JL