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Award winning author, Don Tapscott, and award winning global collaborators Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis are excited to announce the 2010 NetGenEd Project, a global collaboration to envision the future of education and social action by inspiring today's students to study leading technology trends and create their vision for the future. The project involves over 300 students from 6 countres and 15 classrooms.

From the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO). This downloadable 246-page resource includes teacher-authors' individual or group units, modified by curriculum inquiry and peer review, and provides many links to resources.

Inconvenient Youth, a new non-profit, non-partisan network for and by teens has started recruiting and training young people to fight global warming, according to an Aug. 15 press release. Today the group launched with a three-day workshop on climate change at Stanford University attended by youth from around the world.

How a student spends their Two Million Minutes - in class, at home studying, playing sports, working, sleeping, socializing or just goofing off -- will affect their economic prospects for the rest of their lives. How do most American high school students spend this time? What about students in the rest of the world? How do family, friends and society influence a student's choices for time allocation? What implications do their choices have on their future and on a country's economic future?
This film takes a deeper look at how the three superpowers of the 21st Century - China, India and the United States - are preparing their students for the future. As we follow two students - a boy and a girl - from each of these countries, we compose a global snapshot of education, from the viewpoint of kids preparing for their future.

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Attendees at the 2009 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) will examine what it means to live in a digital world, and will discuss the best ways to prepare students to become global citizens.

An agency devoted to educating and inspiring urban youth to become successful students and global community leaders by engaging them in socially dynamic, content-rich learning experiences.

In this global project coordinated by Vickie Davis, students research the nine aspects of digital citizenship and create an offline action project.

How tech-obsessed iKids would improve our schools. One of the strangest things in this age of young people's empowerment is how little input our students have into their own education and its future. Kids who out of school control large sums of money and have huge choices on how they spend it have almost no choices at all about how they are educated -- they are, for the most part, just herded into classrooms and told what to do and when to do it.

Access, Analyze, Act: A Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement. Discover the power of social media while promoting your students' civic engagement.

Schools collaborating to engage student learners. A cutting edge innovative project that researches what can be done with eduction in virtual worlds. This teen grid collaboration project offers projects in different regions grouped by time zone.

Examples of collaborative conversations by teachers and students around the digital citizenship topic of "privacy".

Meet the new philanthropists - Silicon Valley teens with innate computer networking skills, affluent family connections and the one-click ability to bear witness to global poverty.

Flickschool is the work of Marco Torres, a history teacher at a large high school in San Fernando ,who works with students in the area of digital storytelling and other creative endeavors. This particular video covers a student discussion of social networking, global learning and responsibility.

[May 2008] AASA article gives examples of school organizations that are desperately and inappropriately blocking the future and Scott McLeod pleads, "Please don't block the future." Please don't relegate your students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to second-class status in the new economy because you left it to them and their families to figure out on their own what it means to be digital, global citizens. Ask AASA and its state affiliates to provide more technology leadership-related professional development opportunities. And let us know how we can help.

To demonstrate and better understand how the philanthropic and non-profit sectors can utilize virtual worlds to advance their various missions, informed by the goals and grantmaking of The MacArthur Foundation.

"Inconvenient Youth, a new non-profit, non-partisan network for and by teens has started recruiting and training young people to fight global warming, according to an Aug. 15 press release. Today the group launched with a three-day workshop on climate change at Stanford University attended by youth from around the world. "

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In a legal ruling likely to send a chill through the global social networking phenomenon of Facebook, a British businessman has been awarded £22,000 ($44,000, €28,000) in damages from a former school friend who created a fake profile of him on the website.

Dean Shareski discusses the realities of being on-line and the importance of controlling your digital identity.