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in many ways we can actually SAVE time and money by conducting the majority of our professional development interests online.

e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says.

"It's indisputable that the Internet has made us smarter.... The range of things you can explore in a day is just fantastic compared to 20 years ago," says David Weinberger, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "There's no question that we feel the Internet has made us better researchers, better thinkers, better writers."

Books "are not the shape of knowledge," he says. "They're a limitation on knowledge." The idea of a single author presenting her ideas "was born of the limitations of paper publishing. It's not necessarily the only way or the best way to think and to write."

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

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.

Google Moderator allows for discussion around a single topic. Designed for meetings, this tool facilitates real-time feedback in meetings (like classrooms), or crowdsourcing the development of new ideas.

Which are the literacies we need to learn in order to prepare our students for the 21st century?

A Collection Of World History Related Essays, Documents, Maps and Music

What is Wolfram Alpha? It is a supercomputing brain. It provides calculates and provides comprehensive answers to most any science or math question.

Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine.

Vigdor and Ladd are to be applauded for emphasizing that it is not the technology, but the social conditions of their use that are the most compelling concerns in play here.

you can visit that world and offer your students some of its benefits -- like fluency with online collaboration and communication -- from right where you are

Information Overload in the 17th Century

Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development.

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.

The 6 step plan for using your web 2.0 voice to make a difference.

"Youth Safety on a Living Internet" report said that parents and teachers should "promote online citizenship and media-literacy education, and actively encourage the children's participation in the process..... Teaching children civil, respectful behavior online and offline is the key to fostering a safe Internet environment," the group stated in its report,