"Failure has been a trending topic on Education Unbound recently, particularly in regards to the disconnect between educational objectives and game-based learning (GBL). The basic problem is that games depend on players failing multiple times as the primary means of learning how to overcome obstacles. Education, in contrast, is predicated on the notion that failure is bad - for the student, the teacher, and the system as a whole."

"Noam Chomsky discusses the purposes of education shedding more insight on everything from the role of technology to policy pitfalls."

"we are providing you with a great tool from TED that allows teachers to use engaging videos to create customized lessons. TED Ed Beta enables you to use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-ED, or create lessons from scratch based on videos from YouTube."

examines research and best practices to provide an enlightening overview of the ways in which these popular technologies make education (at all levels) more engaging and effective.

"Amid the buzz over the Facebook IPO, the ever-evolving theories about how Twitter is reshaping our communications and speculation about where the next social media-enabled protest or revolution will occur, there is an important question we've largely ignored. What are the real effects of all this on the huge segment of the population most affected by social media themselves: our children and our teens?"

" a little macro that pulls the cost figure from each item's record, adds them all up, and provides a total. We present it in kind of a cutesy context, but the intent is to show people how much they save by using the library. Check it out:"

As recently as 2007, there was note of an alarming trend of young people not reading

Earlier this week, Google introduced Knowledge Graph, the company's new search technology that understands "things not strings" and adds rich and relevant details about your query in the sidebar of your search results. Here are five great things you can now do with a quick Google search.

With all these direct applications for learning, it's easy to justify using mobile devices in school. But what real and lasting effect will they have on the "formal" learning equation?

"StatPlanet is a browser-based interactive data visualization and mapping application. Use it to easily and rapidly create visualizations from simple Flash maps to advanced infographics."

As human beings as well as educators in our schools, we need to make opportunities each week to CREATE new things. The act of creating is something we are wired to do naturally, yet as we get older many of us schedule our daily lives in ways which make creativity a rare rather than common experience.

Using unique data about how a diverse group of young adults looks for and evaluates Web content, our paper makes contributions to existing literature by highlighting factors beyond site features in how users assess credibility.

This study sought to examine the views of students, teachers and teacher librarians on students‟ attitudes to, use of, and reflections on, information retrieval, when completing curricular assignments.

Complaints of information overload are ubiquitous these days -- as are the articles debating what it all means.