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TED Talks Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects.

Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities Centre in the Greater Mekong Subregion

With the new camera on the new iPad 2 and iMovie features, students will now be able to use one mobile device for personalized instruction with master teachers from anywhere in the world. These new developments bring online education technology to the next generation while making it possible for users to take and make their lessons anywhere from an airport lounge to their couch at home. Though the article is talks about the iPad 2, which is soon to be released, the same could be said about using any tablet with front and rear cameras and video software.

UNITED - a music video promoting tolerance and peace to young people the world over. The music video, United, was produced for use by educators, law enforcement and youth officials to promote human rights and advocate non-violence amongst young people. Subtitled in 18 languages, its universal message of tolerance and peace has to date reached more than 50 million.

Kayan New Generation Youth is a network dedicated to spreading Human Rights awareness by providing current events, news as well as, research resources online. It is also dedicated to promoting peace, education and democracy to the Kayan community.

Free, teach-yourself-web-development materials covering a wide range of topics including HTML5, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby on Rails

"So I offer up a different call. In high school, teach students how to apply technology. Teach them how technology fits with their domain of interest. Teach them how to use the components not how to build them. Those students that want to become more technical can choose to learn down the stack to real engineering (aka CS, CE, EE) or up the stack to become expert in technical domain applications (IS, CIS, Project Management, Bioinformatics). There are FAR FAR FAR more jobs out there today for someone with the technical skills to build a SharePoint portal, or light up a CRM instance or build a bioinformatics database than there are for someone who can build the next Python compiler. Let's stop trying to train the mass of high school students to become preservation carpenters, and instead make them very good contractors."

Content-wise, it's even more significant to talk about social media in the classroom. The ability to bring the outside real world into the classroom in real time is a tremendous advantage to using social media. Students immediately react to that. Who among us doesn't like to think what what we're learning is relevant to the world immediately around us? They will immediately react to that. They will begin talking back and forth with the company. For so long, we have shared information in a one-way channel, throwing as much as we can up against the wall and hoping that it sticks. Now we've entered a landscape where the audience would like to give us information back, would like to participate in a two-way dialogue that can really strengthen a company if you know how to embrace it.

Parents are always looking for ways to position their children for success, from piano lessons to Mandarin immersion. In the Wilson household, that means encouraging the kids to express themselves on the Internet. Unlike parents who struggle to limit kids' computer use, Fred and Joanne Wilson want their kids to be comfortable with the latest in technology.