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"Mobile Education LLC is a software services technology company whose aim is to develop innovative, real-time, two-way short message service (SMS) based applications. Current capabilities include: "

The 7th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2012) will be held in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan. Participants will be able to interact, discuss and exchange ideas with the aim of stimulating more exciting ideas for future research. The conference aims to promote a new line of research and practice that highlights both social and technological innovation in order to support and amalgamate contemporary social learning theories. The conference will be held jointly with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL 2012).

"Corporations and governments are starting to worry about a common set of related issues. During the last two months I was fortunate to participate in several conversations with top corporate executives and foreign government officials all of whom are visiting Silicon Valley with increasing frequency. The conversations covered topics ranging from innovation and the rapid technological changes we are experiencing and must adapt to, the mismatch of skills and jobs and the changes we must institute to meet our evolving labor needs, and the state of the world economy and the continued impact of globalization. I want to summarize the topics being discussed by these diverse constituencies and provide a place for relevant comments and opinions."

JTE - can you put this into your own words?

This article talks about the inventions of same of the great technological innovators and the medals they have won.

Google has created a "GTA" - Google Teacher Academy - where teachers can attend a 2-day academy to improve their technology skills.

Watch Gov 2.0 Summit presentations and other interviews " Government as a Platform Gov 2.0 Summit brings together innovators from government and the private sector to highlight technology and ideas that can be applied to the nation's great challenges.

The social and political impact of new technology long has been debated among observers. Throughout American history, technological innovations - from the movable-type printing press in the 15th century, the telegraph in 1844, and the telephone in 1876 to the rise of radio in the 1920s and coast-to-coast television broadcasting in 1946 - have sparked much speculation.

Cell phones will be able to see through walls according to new research. Perhaps the pundits would do well to watch a few old episodes of Star Trek since the tricorder seems to be getting closer to reality than ever. Such things have all kinds of privacy issues at the helm deserving discussion now before we see our way to a future of things that cause big brother to be everywhere. 

The Force.com Visual Process Manager is a groundbreaking innovation in business process management software tools. To appreciate just how much better, faster, and more affordable it is than traditional workflow software, it's helpful to have some background on business process automation in general and the philosophy behind it.

Shows examples of social entrepreneurship

This article talks about how a company used to still use an old version of software that required them to review information in a flow, tedious process. Now, new software is being created to allow this business to transform and manipulate information through collaboration and versatility. It is now much easier to find, review, and respond to information thanks to a new type of software designed for this company.

This article describes how today's society revolves around smart phones. Apps are becoming more and more relevant because they are assisting people to organize and facilitate the activities of their everyday lives.

A new development in ski goggle technology is now allowing users to be able to track their speed, altitude, etc. while skiing. More importantly, it allows the users to view where anyone else with these goggles, or the free app from the company is located on the mountain.

I used this Web page for an image of a dry lab, which is a computer-based laboratory that is usually used for mathematical and scientific work. Dry labs and collaboration on scientific work are made possible by globalization.

Congratulations to Honor Moorman for her winning a PBS Teachers Award for her work with Flat Classroom.

This website is a centralized location for crowdsourcing US government initiatives, grants, contests, etc. Here are some great contests to engage your grad students and high school students if you're here in the US (or just about anyone.)

US government is crowdsourcing problems and ideas on this website.