According to a new study by the research firm Ambient Insight, the number preK-12 students who will take some or all of their courses online will increase from 2 million to 10 million by 2014.

Scott talks about blogging, and how you have to have "thick skin" if you are going to put yourself out there.

"A 21st Century Education" compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.

This sites dedicated to following the death of newspapers around America. Great insight as newspapers try and hang on.

"we as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second." This sums it up for me...how do we get there? Can we get there? This one sentence is very difficult to do...can we do it?

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Armed with cheap video cameras and the internet, a generation of youngsters are growing up very publicly with online videos - and being failed by adults who are not paying proper attention to this new medium. That claim is made in a research paper published today by the thinktank Demos. The study, Video Republic, examines the rise of the YouTube generation and considers how their enthusiasm and skills can be encouraged.

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