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

Flickr search tool.

Since 2000, the Academy, with curriculum specialists Young Minds Inspired, has produced a series of teacher's guides that explore the art and science of motion pictures.

Why new schools are choosing an old model to bring students into the 21st century.

This is a collaborative project to generate Social Media Guidelines for school districts. The goal of this guideline is to provide instructional employees, staff, students, administartors, parents and the school district community direction when using social media applications both inside and outside the classroom.

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

The view that Web 2.0 tools bring us back to the way we are naturally wired to learn.

A post on how one might use Twitter in education.

Interesting post RE: using Google Docs in education and it's implications for compliance with both CIPA and COPPA

YouTube for the education community.

"Our teachers were asked to view this video prior to our 15-minute Friday staff meeting on March 6. They were then asked to create a question that was inspired by the video that "no one else will ask". The result was 50, wide-ranging questions that are captured in this Wordle." This would be interesting an interesting activity anywhere - college classroom, faculty meeting, professional development. Create a shared google document (spreadsheet). Ask participants to enter their questions on the spreadsheet. Copy/paste it into wordle and voila...in 2 minutes you have a visual representation of the groups thinking. Try it with kids sometime, too.

6 minute academic overview of Wikipedia. Might be good for high school librarians, teachers and students (and beyond).

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.

Takeaways on the 2009 Hacking Eduction event in NYC on March 6, 2009.

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

4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use.

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Sophos recommended privacy settings for Facebook

The cellphone industry has a suggestion for improving the math skills of American students: spend more time on cellphones in the classroom.