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The principles are divided into educational facility planning and design process principles, principles for site and building organization, principles for primary educational space, principles for shared school and community facilities, community spaces, principles related to the character of all spaces, and principles related to site design and outdoor learning spaces.

great article about how learning and school has or has not changed and what needs to be transformed to prepare for today and the future to meet the needs of students and teachers

We shouldn't assume that all students understand Internet safety and the importance of protecting personal information (like your phone number) online. While the act of sharing a full name and phone number online may be innocuous, it also may be a cry from someone to connect and communicate.

Technology has resulted in a number of significant changes in the ways people communicate, learn and create. This slideshow highlights a number of trends that should lead to significant changes in classrooms around the world.

An amazing story of an autistic girl and how she learned to communicate through her art. It inspires me because her parents recognized her gift and supported her in developing the positive instead of seeing where she "lacked" due to her autism. We can all learn a lesson in parenting from this family!

excellent interview about collective learning, learning communities, etc...

Nancy White's presentation regarding what she's learned about successfully facilitating online communities

"Technological networks have transformed prominent businesses sectors: music, television, financial, manufacturing. Social networks, driven by technological networks, have similarly transformed communication, news, and personal interactions. Education sits at the social/technological nexus of change - primed for dramatic transformative change."

"syndication buses represent a space through which individuals within a learning community can share their work through personal publishing platforms that they maintain ownership over. Rather than locking information into centralized systems, institutions should be designing a syndication-oriented framework that empowers its members to add their own syndicated voices to a larger, streaming conversation that can be filtered and visualized through semantic tags and categories. All of which is undergirded by a staunch belief in the fact that openness is no longer the exception, but the rule for learning institutions"

With this tool, you can send free phone reminders and alerts to yourself and/or your friends. Might be useful for PACs? or Teachers?