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CNN highlights how cell phones are revolutionizing Africa, including in the realm of education. The cells phone is the PC of Africa.

The ramifications of this story may be far-reaching. I've often wondered how technology can be the great equalizer. This story shows just some of the ways.

I found a number of the articles here to be very interesting. They tend to be short reads on many of the current trends in educational technology.

These articles are interesting and easy to read through! There is a lot of information about educational technology. The bried articles gave you different ways to implement ideas into my classroom and why these concepts are so important.

"Many parents think that social media made their children open minded" according to a very recent survey. This article also discusses a very important issue: online bullying among children)and are the schools doing enough to prevent this issue.

This website has a lot of useful articles on technology in the classroom and it is quite easy to browse and read whatever is of interest to educators. I use Diigo with my classes for bookmarking news articles which students can later use to write their economic commentaries for International Baccalaureate Internal Assessment.

I truly like the idea he has of flipping the classroom. The ability to allow a lecture to be viewed and reviewed as "homework" and guided practice in front of the educator would certainly work in a learning difference environment and seems to be proving itself across the board according to Khan. In the case of a performance class, the tools needed to bring to the stage, for instance, could be taught the night before and allow the entire class period for stagecraft experience. Great post, thanks!

There are pros and cons to this system. I can imagine how it would work well in certain settings but I have experienced some of the downfalls of it. In the younger grades, it is difficult to have every student complete homework on a daily basis. If students were required to view the lesson at home, some may come into school without it completed and need reteaching. At that point, the teacher will need to spend time to teach those children while the others depend on themselves or each other. Then, the students who needed the lesson from the teacher will be behind with the practice work. Typically those children are also the ones who need the most help because their family life may not be the best or they cannot stay organized. If it were a perfect world where these children did not have 2 or more extracurricular activities each week and every student had internet/computer access every day, this would not be an issue. I think I would have to see more proof of this system working before I can implement it in my classroom. Until then, I will continue to use videos like the ones from khanacademy as supplemental forms of instruction.

I am in favor of the idea of the lecture being viewed at home. Probably for the same reasons I am in favor of this program. The ability to learn and review again at my pace and during time I feel most motivated. Any ideas or information not received in the initial lecture would be available to review at home.

It will be amazing to see what the future holds. The article points out the need for technology to applied throughout educational components, instead of being only a stand alone one.

"NMC has placed extensive resources into iTunes U, all of it completely free and easy to find. "

The idea makes sense. ITunes is very popular, Itunes allows you to be mob lie with your info. It allows you to locate lectures, blogs and all info in one site.

The sticky note feature will be very useful for me.

It would be nice to see FB come up with an app specifically for educational application.

Thanks for posting. I'm sure I'll be referring to this in the future. :)

An interesting way to get students involved in audience participation activities.

While it is interesting for me to see what is expected to be coming down the pipe in 2012, it's also moderately depressing to compare where my current school is to where things should be going. We're already miles behind and with the current financial woes in the district (and the state), I don't see how things are going to get any better. We have a tech charter high school that has expanded to include 7th and 8th grade. I know they are getting resources and professional development, but among the rest of us, the only innovations are coming at the hands of educators who are seeing it on their own. There is no money. No district support. No recognition of the fact that our kids are being left behind.

This is an article by Alan November, a leasing educational technology theorist