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why now, more than ever, schools are taking advantage of the tools already in students' hands to integrate education technology.

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Indeed, a variety of players – including state security agencies to Internet marketers to organized-crime circles – are creating an online world in which the very concept of anonymity has basically vanished.

“People at first thought anonymity was very simple,” he says. “It's the complete opposite: The Internet is a great tool for spying.”

“We're not working with any individual consumer information,” Mr. Green says. “In fact, we don't want it.” Instead, Generation5 says it focuses on balancing anonymity with consumer targeting.

Creating is not only at the top of Bloom’s taxonomy, it is a critical skill needed for the advancement of our society.

Curating is a skill needed to sift through the mountains of new content created every day.

A key component of creative class jobs is collaboration

I’m not yet willing to dive educationally into a social tool currently dominated by silliness and pablum.  That said, my argument is not one of a “digital divide” between students and teachers

some folks freak about digital communications between students and teachers.  And yet they think nothing about the face-to-face conversation in the hall where no one else is listening.  This is merely lack of comfort with something new. 

Stand by your interactions as a professional and a model for children, and frankly- there’s a digital record to go along as a bonus.

Every piece of information you receive online emits a welter of useful signals that can help you appraise it.