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"February 11, 2009 - Here is the review for the new Amazon Kindle 2, Amazon's new e-book reader and the successor to the highly popular Amazon Kindle. This new e-book reader from Amazon is more lightweight, features more shades of grey and has a slightly different interface, better battery life and more memory for storing e-books. "

Sound like a good book for our school libraries.

The Atlas of Cyberspace, by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, is the first comprehensive book to explore the spatial and visual nature of cyberspace and its infrastructure. Free Download

Award winning global collaborators Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis (co founders of the Flat Classroom Project) are excited to announce the 2012 NetGenEd Project, another global collaboration to envision the future of education and social action by inspiring today's students to study leading technology trends and create their vision for the future. In this project, students will study and "mash up" the results of the 2012 Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium and Educause and Tapscott's book Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World. Students will study the current research and create wiki-reports with their student partners around the world analyzing current trends and projecting future happenings based upon this collaborative analysis. This project is managed by the students who assume roles such as project manager, assistant project manager, and editors of the various wikis. After compiling their wiki reports based upon current research, and encouraged by "expert advisors" (subject matter experts in the industry), students will then create a video based upon their research in current global technological trends. Applications open now: http://www.netgened.org/apply.html February 1 deadline extended for interested ITGS classes. Contact julie@flatclassroom.org

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Although this is an Op-Ed piece, I thought it worth our attention. I could serve as a stepping off place for a unit on AI and Robotics, or stimulate a myriad of debates at the end of such a unit. I have enjoyed my summer reading of Lanier's book You Are Not Your Gadget_ and share this piece with you.

Lanier wrote _You Are Not Your Gadget_. He is considered the "father" of virtual reality

Author: Motoko Rich Published: in the New York Times. Considers the issues for stakeholders when members of the library can download library books from home.

This website accompanies the book of the same title, a must read for ITGS teachers. The website includes lots of videos of robots in action, images of robots with detailed captions, videos of the author's appearances including a TED conference, a classroom discussion guide, and lots of information about the book including a lengthy excerpt. First rate material. Goes beyond robotics with excellent explanations of the technology.

Sandra, I really like this resource. Could you add the 2.6_military tag to it please?

"May 30, 2007 - Mike Phillips is a gamer and freelance technology writer born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Using his thumb and a proximity switch to access his computer he is a prolific journalist and has contributed chapters to several books. Assistive technology has opened the world for him. "

With e-readers like Apple's new iPad and Amazon's Kindle touting their vast libraries of digital titles, some bookworms are bound to wonder if tomes-on-paper will one day become quaint relics. But the question also arises, which is more environmentally friendly: an e-reader or an old-fashioned book?

E-readers are finding a growing market on youngsters. This is and excellent opportunity to revive the culture of reading.

The Australian Age related to eBooks taking over bookstore sales, threatening business of book shops

Outstanding show, explains a lot about worms vs viruses as well as botnets. It's an interview with the author so it also illustrates how to ask good questions. (useful for the project) The gigantic networked system created by the Conficker worm is what's known as a "botnet." The Conficker botnet is powerful enough to take over computer networks that control banking, telephones, security systems, air traffic control and even the Internet itself, says Bowden. His new book, Worm: The First Digital World War, details how Conficker was discovered, how it works, and the ongoing programming battle to bring down the Conficker worm, which he says could have widespread consequences if used nefariously.

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