Technology is playing an increasingly prominent role in America's schools. These days, computer games teach math skills and lectures are given at home via YouTube while class time is reserved for practicing the material, in what has become known as a flipped classroom. I WOULD JUST FALL TO SLEEP IN ONE OF THESE SCHOOLS! It is a shame that people allow their biases to hinder children. People running away from the present and future --- it is like that very bad M. Night Shyamalan movie ---> THE VILLAGE. COMPUTERS are like the imaginary demon! In truth, the demon only lives within the mind of people stuck in time.

Despite the wealth of information available on the Internet, a recent study suggests that many students lack basic research skills. According to the latest Project Information Literacy Progress Report, 84 percent of students say that when it comes to course-based research, getting started is their biggest challenge.

A Great Primer Article for Ediucators

A USA TODAY report! Does this mean that Occupy is not true democratization.

A initiative that may support the BYOD movement.

According to a survey fielded by Interactive Educational Systems Design and sponsored by Time To Know, 63 percent of administrators believe 1:1 computing classrooms are the future of education.

Lesson Capture and Technology in the service of education!

Using third-party resources and having students act as investigators are some of the many ways educators are teaching about online safety and responsibility

Technology in the classroom --> only works with parental participation. This is an angle that has not been covered much in our class. But, my experience tells me it is more important than whether technology helps pedagogy.

I usually do not venture into blogs. But, this data is so powerful and so supported that I could not resist.

This is an example of a school district that has jumped off the cliff of traditional into the hand of technological. With a strong plan, this district went from considering sustainability to establishing long term scalability. ENJOY.

The Smithsonian is pushing technology to help its visitor prepare for what they will see when they walk through the doors.

We will never be the same again!

Information should not be limited to those that read.

When a teacher must accept their restriction of their rights, as a special class of individuals, because it protects a district from the abuses of a free, everyone else must understand they are accepting the lost of freedoms for us all.

As a recent New York Times article wryly explains, it turns out that even the nation's technological elites-the same engineers, software designers, and idea people, who brought us Google, E-Bay, and Facebook-would prefer that their children grow up and learn in a technology-free environment. WOW -- SIMPLY WOW!! This is real food for thought. I completely challenged my thinking!!

Using Podcast and Youtube as a method for instructing students has picked up a lot of attention among teachers. But, as our conversation with the School of One shows, the methods for demonstrating the effectiveness of this teaching tool needs a lot of work. This article discuss some of the potential issues with using technology resources to create lessons for students as oppose to traditional teacher lecture.

Published Online: October 17, 2011 Published in Print: October 19, 2011, as Crafting Your BYOT Policy For the small but passionate minority of school districts that are opening doors to student-owned mobile devices, there's a lot riding on how effective the policy shift turns out to be in improving teaching and learning. I will be looking strongly at this experiment to assist with the charter school district I am putting together.

Published Online: October 17, 2011 Published in Print: October 19, 2011, as When Educational Content Gets Blocked For most of last school year, Nowmee Shehab never thought twice about using school computers to pull up websites of the Trevor Project, the It Gets Better Project, or the Gay-Straight Alliance, as she searched for resources for her high school's own GSA club.

The schools I founded in Tennessee are really attempting to harness the power of these feedback loops using a very complicated design. Technology helps. But, this technology leaves much to be desire though the information one can generate is invaluable.