This is a link to a school at Oxford that has a trove of resources dealing with a variety of 21st century issues. There are multimedia materials and lots of publications on different topics available as free pdf downloads.
Would you like paper or plasma? That's the question book lovers face now that e-reading has gone mainstream. And, as it turns out, our brains process digital reading very differently. Manoush Zomorodi, managing editor and host of WNYC's New Tech City, recalls a conversation with the Washington Post's Mike Rosenwald, who's researched the effects of reading on a screen.