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It was no longer about the hardware. It was about the network. Which brings us to the present: Mobile Cloud Computing. The new paradigm is about your information, your friends' information, the information of strangers, and how these informations all coalesce in the Cloud. The future is now. And despite the fact his job might be on the line, don't let your old school IT guy tell you otherwise.

The Digital Divide is the result of a failure of imagination and the poor -- indeed practically criminal -- allocation of resources.

Do 70% of your students arrive everyday with cell phones and yet your colleagues still say technology is out of your reach? It's time to rethink.

. I hear students clearly saying technology is an essential part of their identities and the way they process as well as interact with information and other people in the world. Given this reality for many students, why are schools not embracing more digital, personal technology platforms (including laptops as well as cell phones) as incredibly powerful learning levers and amplifiers? Sadly, fear and ignorance continue to define many conversations in many school board meetings.

"Students continue to be on the leading edge in terms of adopting, modifying and re-using digital content and technology tools to enrich both their personal and educational lives. The students in many ways are far ahead of their teachers and parents not only in the sophistication of their technology use, but in the adoption of emerging technologies for learning purposes," said Project Tomorrow CEO Julie Evans, in a statements released to coincide with the survey release. "It is in our nation's best interest that we support and facilitate student usage of technology for learning."

Move from supply-side push to demand-side pull.

talking about rights

'learning by doing' (as opposed to learning by listening). Now, in the post-Plowden era, we need to move to 'learning by making'.

We have had the privilege to work with a Native American school on an Indian Reservation in Coulee Dam, WA for the past several weeks where we have collaborated on our writing, shared about the community in which we live, and have learned about perspectives as we have become more familiar with a culture that was once thought to be very different from our own. There was a connectedness that PDS boys from Memphis, TN realized existed between two different cultures: the same interests in sports, technology, the love of outdoors, and music.