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If you haven't yet seen it, there is a fascinating video of Sal Khan speaking at the Gel 2010 conference. For those who haven't been following, Khan is the creator of the Khan Academy-a non-profit that has over 1,800 videos for free on the Web that teach topics in Math, Science, the Humanities, and so forth-and have attracted such an impressive following that they have more viewers than even MIT's open courses on YouTube. The Khan Academy reaches people all over the world with these videos, and recently Google awarded it $2 million to create more videos and translate them into additional languages.

Finding common factors to estimate the success of groups has little to do with intelligence

"Anything that brings language alive, whether that's in the real world or the virtual world, is a good thing."

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.