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I'm interested in actually reading this book because it discusses how technology can destroy humanity.

This webquest has sequential details with lots of resources or links to articles. It also has a page for the teacher. However, one of the overall purposes is to teach people the importance of recycling. I find this ironic because one of the end goals is to print off a newsletter that students can give out to anyone involved, which is a waste of a lot of paper when there are so many other technologies that can do this without wasting paper.

This seems to be a better webquest because students have to COME UP WITH solutions rather than simply find solutions.

That is so funny! If the whole idea of the project is to recycle, they should have incorporated technology (like email) and save paper. In this case, the best thing to use would be technology.

Well, yes and no - facebook is a platform that has a bias toward anonymity which lowers inhibitions, so this teacher probably never would have flirted in person with students, but did online.  Also facebook has limited expression - and it is documented.  If this happened in "real time" - nothing likely would have come of it.  I"m not excusing the teacher, but we need to guard ourselves against tech

Lists a lot of online tools for embedding in blogs & wikis. Most could be used on their own as well.

Pay close attention to the caution the lead researcher uses.  The headline says "tech improves learning", the researchers know better.  More likely, the teachers were more willing to try new teaching strategies because they were going to have to learn the technology anyway. 

Lots of links, when skimming I didn't find many high-level uses.

lets give this thing a try trying to link some different comments on here

Andrew Keen's website detailing the publication of his book, "The Cult of the Amateur",

This book is about America suffering from tons of information in the news and knowing what is important or what they can relate it to. According to the book, this means Americans are becoming the least knowledgeable people in the world. The authors try to tell us what the difference between news and advertising.

A look into how entertainment values have corrupted the way we think.

A quick review of the book by Neil Postman,"How to Watch TV News"

This book looks interesting. It seems like every time we have a free moment we are checking one of our online social networks. I am curious what the author has to say about the effect of this habit.

kind of like Jing

Slideshare is a tool for sharing power point presentations. Looks interesting. 

Out of this list, very few would promote the goals most teachers have for students.  Most of the tools assume kids are already highly motivated learners.