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The Social Learning Academy is intended for learning professionals  - in Workplace Learning and Education - who are new to social media and would like to find out more about the different social technologies and their application to learning.

As important as it is to be able to find lots of information quickly, what's even more important is to be able to think deeply about the information once we've found it. We need to slow down.

If you have teachers that regard computers as learning tools, you have to let them be used as such. Limiting access to vast and rapidly shifting content makes using and finding content difficult. Tim isn't opening the gates of Hell. He's loosening a noose. On the other hand, if teachers regard computers as baby sitters, no matter what content is being served up, learning doesn't happen.

This site uses objects to tell a history of the world. You’ll find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK.

robbing kids of their ability to concentrate

The question, though, is: distraction from what? And also: What’s inherently wrong with distraction?

Formal education, as we’ve framed it, is not only about finding ways to learn more about the things we love, but also, equally, about squelching our aversion to the things we don’t — all in the ecumenical spirit of generalized knowledge.

How do you know you're in a 1.0 world?  Everyone is afraid.

We can watch, helpless or we can commit to finding ways to use this new technology to think new thoughts--about government, citizenship, politics, participation, ownership, teaching, community, justice.

And though the iPads have been in the building for only two months, an education revolution appears to be under way.

I actually do use Winthrop High School students are never far from their iPads, even using them during their lunch hours. A glance across the school cafeteria reveals iPads on almost every table. this for many academic purposes." Those include taking class notes and recording lecture audio in an app dubbed Evernote, using the iPad as planner and calendar, downloading and reading class materials in PDF form and writing papers.