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Youth at Risk makes the sobering point in its findings that 'ICT driven initiatives targeting YAR are taking place but there is little systematic and in-depth information about them. Knowledge sharing and collaboration among stakeholders involved in YAR is still too limited (p. 29)'. Further, Youth at Risk states, 'There is evidence that ICT-driven initiatives can foster the reengagement of YAR in a variety of dimensions (education, vocational training, job searching, social engagement) by using ICT in their back-office activities and in their interaction with YAR (p. 29)'.

Free e-learning report o on-line education in the k-12 space.

An appealing way for students and researchers in the STEM fields to work together and solve a problem- robots that play soccer better than humans?

How valid is Wikipedia use in education, teaching and research, especially in Higher Education?

This video gives VERY interesting statistics about our future in information and education.

We have to get used to letting kids chime in on decisions made about their education.

The future of tech. Augmented reality

4 minute movie from Education Nation summit. "Should the system be overhauled?"

I find it a little disturbing that there's a sense of social obligation to play FarmVille- if you don't play, then your Facebook/Farmville friends suffer. Kind of a sneaky trick.

Interesting article on how the iPad will innovate education.

ipad roll out in schools

As usual, it takes a movie for people to open up to the issues in the world around them.

Meeting Hope In the next few decades, hundreds of millions of young, poor families will migrate to cities in the developing world in search of work and opportunity. Education provides them with a shared sense of hope. Many will be the first generation in their families to go to school. It is vital that the hopes they invest are not disappointed.

Charles Leadbetter TED talk mentioned during lecture.

Three out of five of the winners of Google's "10 to the 100" contest ($2 million each) are education-oriented.

Popular nerd site, Gizmodo, is offering online electronics courses for their readers. Wish this had been around when I had to take electronics courses in college. Sometimes, simple videos that you can play and replay can do so much more for you than a PhD clad professor and a book.

Kentaro Toyama's TEDxTokyo talk about the exaggeration of technology's role in ICT4D

"Technology only magnifies human intent and capacity. It can't substitute for them." - Kentaro Toyama

I especially love the last quote of this interesting article: "... Now, it's all about penetrating these weird markets that we can't even fully fathom yet." Maybe the ARM chip will be behind a disruptive innovation - it's fun to think about the possibilities

We have a reading on "ubiquitous computing" later in the semester that gets into these fascinating issues and how they might affect education.

Software that tailors writing advise to the student