Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people's media use. It found that the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth.  Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week).  And because they spend so much of that time 'media multitasking,' they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours.

Daniel Pink describes how we must change our techniques for motivation (as in motivating students) if we are to motivate them in the 21st Century.

Instead of just searching and playing here are some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about:

A list of over 100 ways to use social media for eLearning.

list of communication tools for the well-connected teacher.

Wonderful Blogger templates.

A list of all those "Interesting Ways to Use …" lists. Now you can know what to do with Google Docs, or Twitter, or …

"constructivism, knowledge, low resource setting, mobile, mobile learning; review paper"

A wonderful tour through the first 223 milliseconds of your connection to a secure website, in this case Amazon. It will help you appreciate the magic underneath the Web.

This is an explicit plan for using technology to increase student achievement.

If Net kids will change business this much, how much will they change our schools?

Explores the positive reinforcement of games and asks why we aren't providing that same reinforcement in school?

A fine video of John Seely Brown talking about creating space for students to tinker as a way of creating and sharing knowledge.

The uses for Twitter continue to grow.

Talks about how to contact other schools to build video chat connections-specifically Skype-for your school.