A new study by alum Christine Greenhow finds social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have more educational potential than you might think.

This is a log post on "Three Simple Things You Can Do To Improve Writing." It contains a link to a PDF titled: Writing in the 21st Century.

A Manifesto for EduChange

This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities.

This is a blog entry post-Hacking Education Conference. It does challenge the thinking behind "reinventing" education. What is realistic and what is not....

At this point in their proliferation, much remains unknown concerning the educational and learning impacts of NDM: Will they be large or small, will the outcomes be positive, negative, mixed, or neutral? It is still too early to tell. That having been said, we believe that a "perfect storm" of NDM affordances, sociocultural changes associated with globalization, and the growing pace and interconnectedness of human life may potentially add up to a formidable tipping point. We operate on the assumption that NDM contain affordances that, if leveraged properly, could create future learning environments and cultures in which the promises of constructivist, social, situated, and informal learning are realized.

In the Web 2.0 world, self-directed learners must be adept at building and sustaining networks.

A post on how one might use Twitter in education.

Context for NCTE's 21st Century Literacies Framework

Professionals from around the world weigh in on how college students can prepare for the modern global market

Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone

Just how radically is the internet transforming the experience of childhood?

The most profound impact of the Internet, an impact that has yet to be fully realized, is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social learning. What do we mean by "social learning"? Perhaps the simplest way to explain this concept is to note that social learning is based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning….

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

The latest effort by the New Humanities Collaborative to tell the story of how reading and writing have been transformed by the web. What does it mean to write? to read? to publish? The answers to these questions, once obvious, must now be reimagined. Can the educational system rise to the challenge of preparing students to live, work, think, and thrive in an environment of ceaseless change?

The latest effort by the New Humanities Collaborative to tell the story of how reading and writing have been transformed by the web. What does it mean to write? to read? to publish? The answers to these questions, once obvious, must now be reimagined. Can the educational system rise to the challenge of preparing students to live, work, think, and thrive in an environment of ceaseless change?

Ways to help improve teacher effectiveness

How the fundamental idea of social dynamics, the sense of communal glue which appeared to be in its final death throws in the late 20th century, has suddenly been reborn thanks to the Internet. And with it, a shocking sense of what's possible when we stop being political sheep, and start being grass-root shepards. Click on the FREE CONTENT button, register and then click on it again. You can then watch this one hour film.

Technology isn't a "tool".....it's part of the ecology. Blog post from Kim Cofino

Bloom's taxonomy in the 21st century.