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I was recently invited to attend the Intel education Summit in Sweden. This blog posting cites the four best presentations from my point of view on teaching and learning.

Some thoughts after my participation in the Inaugural National Digital Education Summit in Dublin, Ireland recently.

Shared in a quality visual literacy workshop at The iPad Summit at the American Embassy School in Delhi, India.

Without having attended the conference I had very similar ideas the other week. It's not just purchasing the technology but teachers need training.

At Summit Interactive we embrace technology and the many changes it brings to our life. We are always looking for the latest and most effective ways to communicate with the On-Demand Generation.

"Gabe Zichermann is an entrepreneur, author, highly rated public speaker and gamification thought leader. He is the chair of the Gamification Summit and Workshops, and is co-author of the book "Game-Based Marketing, where he makes a compelling case for the use of games and game mechanics in everyday life, the web and business."

Fabulous, comprehensive presentation to parents on CyberSafety and Digital Citizenship, shared by Miguel Guhlin.

You know the Internet isn't all bad, but you just don't always have the time to filter through the good, the bad, and the ugly. Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of The KidZui Network of free online applications.

Apple's mobile computing options are an intuitive way for kids to explore the digital age. However, it is important to set limits. The iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch parental controls do just that. Here's how they work.

Leading the charge into the next generation of interactive book design is Robin Mitchell-Cranfield, of Vancouver Film School. I had the pleasure of attending Robin's presentation at Adobe MAX Education Summit as well as speaking with her a bit later at Adobe MAX where she shed some light on what she's working on, why she thinks books could forever change and why tablets have been the impetus for her to get so excited about the future of digital publishing.

AOTA Education Summit 2015

"It was October and I was standing on the roof of a high rise building in the middle of Shanghai. Flight after flight of stairs interspersed with several elevator journeys had brought me to the summit, and the rooftop on which I now stood served as a primary school playground for hundreds of pupils. As I made my way to the edge of the building I was amazed to find that the only barrier between me and the pavement - 16 stories down - was a small wall, waist height at most. I peered over the edge and can still recall that instant feeling of danger and dizziness washing over my entire body. I stepped back and turned to the Chinese headteacher whose school I was visiting."