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National School Boards Association Education Technology Director Ann Flynn talks about balancing the need for technological innovations with the reality of running a school district.

Attention is a skill that must be learned, shaped, practiced; this skill must evolve if we are to evolve. The technological extension of our minds and brains by chips and nets has granted great power to billions of people, but even in the early years of always-on, it is clear to even technology enthusiasts like me that this power will certainly mislead, mesmerize and distract those who haven't learned - were never taught - how to exert some degree of mental control over our use of laptop, handheld, earbudded media.

In the first two projects of Technology Literacy, students research complex topics, write narrative essays, collect and analyze data to think critically about their topics and produce publications.

Educators learned how to use technology to enhance learning experiences beyond the classroom as part of the National Educational Computing Conference in Washington.

Learn how and why art transforms teaching and learning, what technology does to enable it, and about measurable results from educators who practice it. Smithsonian American Art Museum: Our Space, Your Space, Cyber Space

Wonderful World of Wikis: Practical Classroom Wikis\n[Formal Session : Open Source Lab]\nVicki A. Davis, Westwood Schools, Technology A with Sarah Cove and Adam Frey

Quest Atlantis is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks from the Center for Research on Learning & Technology at Indiana University. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. It allows users to travel to virtual places to perform educational activities (known as Quests), talk with other users and mentors, and build virtual personae.

Digital Days is a photo workshop series that travels around the country to 18 cities per year, unraveling the mysteries of digital technology and photography. Digital photography is growing in popularity and advanced photo equipment is becoming accessible to all of us - and with that comes a whole new world of things to learn and master.

Power up your lessons by exploring wikis for collaboration; learn to embed Web2.0 tools, graphics, videos, podcasts, and other engaging technologies.

Technology exploration platform for teens. Kids can make 3D Games, Learn Java, Create Videos, Mix Music, Explore Animation, Build Mobile Applications

Nings, wikis. What do I teach when I teach writing in a digital age? What are effective ways of incorporating technology into writing?

Today at the National Educational Computing Conference, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and nGenera Corporation, led by Don Tapscott - chairman of its nGenera Insight thought leadership group and best-selling author of Wikinomics and Grown Up Digital - announced a partnership between their organizations, based on common interests in aligning the power of Web 2.0 with the enterprise needs of school districts and their communities.

Despite a growing interest in online learning among students, the availability of online classes in K-12 schools and districts hasn't kept pace with the demand, according to a new report from Project Tomorrow and Blackboard Inc.