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Some questions to consider before embarking on your journey to personalize learning: Why do you want to personalize learning for your learners? What problems or needs have you identified in your school, organization and/or community? What data can you show that demonstrates the need to personalize learning? What does teaching and learning look like now? What are stakeholders beliefs about learning and change? Why is it critical for your organization and/or community to change now? What challenges or obstacles do you envision as you move to personalizing learning? What do you envision for your personalized learning environment?

Reading online content later when offline is not something new, but a new free app for the iPad gets us rethinking our daily Internet browsing.

apps is Readability. The company provides a method to show content of Web site posts on the iPad without all of the extra distractions you have to sort through when viewing via a Web Browser.

Risk Taking

This means teens literally cannot come to a decision as fast as an adult.

scans showed that the reward center of the teen brain became much more active in the company of their peers

Many of the arguments being made today as to how the Internet is ruining our society were first put forth with the introduction of public speaking, the printed word, telecommunications and so on.

should respond to emails at 6 a.m. on a Saturday (emergency or not), this is less about your boss's disposition and more about a common lack of education as to how to best use technology.

It's my job to best manage my technology (and not the other way around).

Content Curation is an apt term that makes a lot of sense in this era of social networking.

So, what is Content curation? It is a technique of collecting videos, tweets, blogs, images, presentations, slide shows and any other content  from several websites (Internet) and present them all in the same window, categorized or grouped under interesting topics

The literature shows that more recent, sophisticated applications of the technology produce greater positive gains than older applications, he said.

"Where technology does have a positive impact is when it actively engages students, when it's used as a communication tool, when it's used for things like simulations or games that enable students to actively manipulate the environment."