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"With venture capital flooding into the education sector, dozens of companies popping up every day, thousands of schools buying into new technology, and millions of students and lifelong learners around the world getting on board, we need to ask if we've built the edtech house on a foundation of solid rock, or sand."

"The contemporary educational system has imposed many changes in the way teachers share knowledge. It seems that you cannot be a successful teacher without being an EdTech enthusiast at the same time"

Outlines the biggest trends of 2013 and upcoming trends of 2014. Do you agree?

blog post by Kim Cofino 10/3/08

Survey from JogNog reveals schools unprepared to support digital learning - EdTech Times

EdTech professionals will be challenged to become a change agent within their profession by implementing education and social media marketing tools within their daily practice.

"Libraries and librarians are at the forefront and often the hub of the school. They are a community resource, a public face, a service profession, a helping hand, relationship builders, collaborators, and educational technology leaders. Librarians of 2015 are not the same librarians you remember from 1985. They still order books and teach research skills, but it is very rare to hear them shushing students, or hiding meekly behind the stacks. Librarians wear a number of hats and information literacy is closely tied to educational technology."

"A place to share e-learning and Web 2.0 tools for education."

Excellent 

# 5 on this page is an excellent video by Howard Rheingold about the priorities for teaching information literacy in this world of the Internet, search engines, and social media.

We need to teach social media in school!

Short article on applications for iTunesU with links to specific iTunesU courses