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Technology literacy is projected to arrive in k-12 schools in 2012.

Ars Technica's take on the grand question of our time

A smart board that recognizes what you are drawing and plays a simulation for you.

"Dramatic mission creep on one hand, and the dissolution of families and communities on the other, have made teaching impossibly difficult and beyond the skill set of average people," writes Gisèle Huff.

The professor's argument on why wikipedia will fail

Armed Forces America!

In Goldman's view, the very popularity of the site stands in tension with its goal of radical openness. The freely editable nature of Wikipedia has made it a canvas upon which vandals, spammers, and pranksters can paint at will.--Goldman Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody) argues the oppositte: that enough people care about wikipedia to prevent it from devolving into chaos, which is what would happen if nobody cared.

How does the internet affect our lives?

Takes on Distributed Learning (wikipedia)

Dueling opinions on what the Net offers us.

This is a review of Clay Shirky's book, "Here Comes Everybody" in which he describes the dramatic impact the internet has, and will continue to have on how we learn and communicate. This book (and review) will give you some insight into how your children may be using these technologies. But it should also raise questions about how we, as practitioners, can use the affordances of the new tech to improve our efficiency, effectiveness, and efficacy.

Obama should put more money into educational technology. This seems like a very one sided and simplistic view of how technology can be used to improve education. Only at the end of the article do you realize that the author is selling something: he's an officer at a company that works with educational technology

Sillicon Valley (Social) entrepreneurs hosting developer garage in Uganda

Coming to terms with "Friendship" in a (socially) networked world.

informal learning