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fully 65 percent of today’s grade-school kids may end up doing work that hasn’t been invented yet.

I am sure someone told Gutenberg that they would never read his printed text because they loved the feel and smell of hand written scrolls.

To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and has the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.

Digital literacy is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate and analyze information using digital technology.

Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad -- with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is "Our Choice," Al Gore's sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth."

Perhaps the weakest area of the typical one-to-one computing plan is the complete absence of leadership development for the administrative team—that is, learning how to manage the transition from a learning ecology where paper is the dominant technology for storing and retrieving information, to a world that is all digital, all the time. Leaders must be given the training to: Craft a clear vision of connecting all students to the world’s learning resources. Model the actions and behaviors they wish to see in their schools. Support the design of an ongoing and embedded staff development program that focuses on pedagogy as much as technology. Move in to the role of systems analyst to ensure that digital literacy is aligned with standards. Ensure that technology is seen not as another initiative, but as integral to curriculum.

Research tells us that, at the most basic level, children’s social skills may be in decline from spending less face-to-face time and more time on screens.

Middle school children leading digital lives pose a particular challenge.

middle, and high school is how hungry they are for their teachers to teach them pro-social strategies for dealing with these difficult social dynamics