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Society is in flux. The global economy is in meltdown. Education is in turmoil. Why? The world has, and is, changing faster than we can keep up. One of the reasons for this disconnect is our insistence on teaching our young people in the same way that we ourselves learned. We're teaching as if there were a dearth of resources, when actually we're spoiled for choice. 'Digital literacy' is a term much debated, but which allows us to grasp hold of an important concept. Literacy in the digital arena just isn't the same as it is when sitting at a desk with paper and pencil. But how is it different? And what can we do about it? Allow me to suggest some ways in which we can come up with a workable definition for 'digital literacy' and show you methods by which we can educate our young people for the blended digital/physical world they do, and shall, inhabit!

SocialToo can help you be a social networking power user. Keep your follower lists in sync across networks, and get daily updates. Send surveys to your followers and more! All we need is a SocialToo login, your Twitter ID and an e-mail address.

Slide Thinkfinity into the Curriculum with Diigo Slides

t is actually a collection of lesson plans, interactive web tools that allow you to manipulate numbers, images, data, and much more. Looking for interactive games that are age appropriate? Thinkfinity has them with appropriate lesson plans and web resources. Best of all, Thinkfinity has 4 portals—Educators, Parents, Students, and Afterschool—that allow easy access to select resources that are available at no cost.

This is the current draft of cards. They are laid out on an a4 page and need to be trimmed to get a deck. For two players pick two different paper colours and print a set of cards on each colour.

Free online donation facility for all charities

More than 200 charities have benefited from a new everyclick facility which the search engine claims allows every UK charity to accept donations online, for free.

“Learning Agility, which has four dimensions—Mental Agility, People Agility, Results Agility and Change Agility—is a key to unlocking our change proficiency. In fact, research studies by CCL, Mike Lombardo of Lominger, Robert Sternberg and his colleagues at Yale University, and Daniel Goleman point to Learning Agility as more predictive of long-term potential than raw IQ. Learning Agility is a complex set of skills that allows us to learn something in one situation and apply it in a completely different situation. It is about gathering patterns from one context and using those patterns in a completely new context so that we can make sense and success out of something we have never seen or done before.

video platform to its 323 regional websites

giving its online communities more ways to contribute and digest content.