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I clicked through some related articles on this one a little bit, and it's worth following up on. I want to know how this treaty plans to address spam and cyberattacks. It is certainly high-time for this treaty to be updated, if it has truly not happened since 1988. The internet is certainly important enough to warrant further discussion, but I feel as if I'm speaking out of turn. I do not know what other treaty exist regarding internet based telecommunication in the UN.

What do Kansas City, Chicago, and Seattle have in common? Extremely fast internet paving the way for ubiquitous computing.

Did they jump or were they pushed?

Schools often work in isolation or from top down directives. This site has some interesting components to its design around methodologies for digitally delivered PD: Individualization, institutional buy-in, top to bottom integration and support.

This is an interesting talk which shares techniques that journalists use to determine fact from fiction. Could be very useful for teaching critical thinking skills.

Really interesting and definitely related to developing critical thinking skills. However, the idea that someone can crosscheck sources using Google maps to identify locations makes me wonder about how journalism in a web 2.0 ecology impacts privacy.

This article outlines the ways in which teacher utilize social networking.

This site is a professional development portal in which teachers can upload videos of lessons and get feedback on them.

This blog entry is about a paper written on how digital learning enhances deeper learning.

This article is not about emerging tech directly. However, it discusses how there is an initiative to increase teaching students to be innovators consistent with 21st century learning. When I read this, I thought about all the ways that technology could facilitate this.

Ok, add this to the graphics company I posted earlier... and I can really see losing yourself in virtual reality.

Ok... I am not a gaming person, but if you take the level of detail in the graphics that this company says it can deliver, and combine it with the new LEAP Motion detector I will post next ... wow does this seem to take virtual reality to a new level.

For academe's future, think mash-ups not MOOC's

Terrific article. I love the way they articulate some of the criticisms of MOOCs we've talked about: "Making courseware "massive" may dangle the eventual possibility of trillion-dollar profits (even if they have yet to materialize). But it does not "fix" what is broken in our system of education. It massively scales what's broken."

And other assessment tools.

The app only contains Math and Language Arts.

Great place for teachers and districts to share and discover common formative assessments and track mastery of state and Common Core standards.

Their senior team includes recent HGSE graduate Andy Cahill.

The DHL's Global Connectedness report is interesting. The pillar is composed of trade/capital/information/people. Total rank of connectedness: US 20th. Each page for country analysis is helpful to think about kind of education is required for each country's future growth. 

This is not the first talk given by Dr. McGonigal and since I've watched both now, I can tell you that this one is really worth watching! This transformative power of gaming is relevant to education and she is an embodiment of its revolutionary power.

Thank you for sharing this Drew I agree that this is worth watching. Who would have thought that online games can outperform pharmaceuticals in treating clinical anxiety and depression?

Thanks for sharing this interesting report Junjie. I like that part which encourages more dialogue between employers and education providers. However, I don't think they addressed the possible problem that could arise from that dialogue which is, employers are asking for solutions to their problems, and these problems may not be the main issues of the time when the students graduate.

Matthew, I agree that the skill sets the job market asks from future employees are in constant change. So probably the education providers should try to equip those potential employees with the capacity to transfer old skills into new ones so as to meet the ever-changing demand, though it is indeed very difficult to train the transfer-skills.

3 distinct groups of employers and  7 distinct youth segments (well positioned, driven, struggling, disheartened, disengaged, too cool, too poor) - they are "identified with different outcomes and motivations", requires "a different set of interventions". also concentration and mix of these segments also varies by country. executive summary is short and TIE relevant. 

Nature offers some of the most amazing technology and perhaps sometimes, instead of looking to constantly innovate or create technology, we can look to nature's technology to transform education in our classrooms (and out of them)

Is the government's "Innovative Approach to Literacy Program" really that innovative?