Great education opportunities available to the wealthy and elite of Britain. An 11-year old English boy named "Harry" tells us about all the really fancy, expensive computer equipment used at his school. It even ties in with their class trip to Madrid!

Article on a book about why Geeks, Nerds, and intelligent misfits make good, successful adults and successful teens often don't. High school social system is implicated.

Larry Lessig gives his latest presentation about copyright, gives some interesting examples of ways in which material isn't practically accessible. Debates the purpose of copyright (whether it does/should benefit authors or publishers). Promotes the dissemination of knowledge to the populace.

Al-Jazeera debuts new TV news program which features social media and blogging. Could be interesting...

Comment at 13:20-25 for Greg's project? (Or someone who wants to reference that idea?)

Why librarians are our future.

Article on Economic perspectives of GenMe

The damaging potential of boxes on the mind of a 4th grader.

Old review of a site designed for online K-12, non-traditional school education. Mostly bookmarked here as a placeholder for the actual service, k12.com

9 page paper on using technology (especially podcast) an teaching.

Portal for numerous blogs and articles about class-related Blogging. Contains 23 separate blogs posts on the subject "Educational Rationale for and Pedagogy of Blogging", and numerous links for subjects like "Student Safety and Responsible Blogging ", "Blogging statistics and research," Evaluating Blogs - Rubrics" and 50+ examples of Student/Teacher Blogs for Classes.

Blog post containing a dozen links to other posts with Twitter-tech teaching tips.

Professor thinks laptops encourage thoughtless transcription of lectures, give bored students something to do. It's only a matter of time before he goes this far: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80925439/

54 very simple slides. A bit dated (3 yrs. old). Even the idea of seeing someone's slide show without them presenting says a lot; the experience of getting information this way is a subject all its own.

10 slides from someone's presentation on media/tech in classroom. Raises points, explains little.

MSNBC's article on the GlobeScan survey used in the BBC article on the subject of internet access as a human right.

BBC report on a survey (done by GlobeScan) on Internet Access as a Human Right. Interesting that so much of the world is barely media literate, yet thinks internet access is a human right(?)

School accused of spying on students through webcams in school-issued MacBooks. I've seen a few stories like this- I've yet to see one come to any fruition. But it's something to think about as another way media can be pervasive- or a way technology could become pervasive. Does the battle for the view include the battle for being viewed (or not viewed)?

It only gets scarier from :22, when the teacher instructs the students to feign comprehension and interest. From there on out, it's a string of ordered, brief ADHD spaz-attacks. Example of how not all change is change that works for everyone?

Structuring a class/course to engage and digitally mediate students and content.