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"This year Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in the UK, has been awarded $1 million in seed-funding for his wish to design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together. He hopes to build a School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online."

Sylvia Martinez, President of GenYes, talks about giving students a voice - not just a token voice, but real support within a school to develop leadership skills and to have a say in the running and direction of the school. Are you ready to do this school leaders?

Excellent Student-initiated book - good role model for future student products globally

Adam is a colleague of mine, based in NYC. He will be keynoting ISTE 2013. Young, ambitious - has good ideas and is able to work beyond his immediate cultural and geographical limitations

Young students and designing - great real examples from a teacher in the classroom

Rushkoff identifies the five main ways we're struggling, as well as how the best of us are thriving in the now: 4. Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots suffer more burnout than real-world pilots, as they attempt to live in two worlds - home and battlefield - simultaneously. We all become overwhelmed until we learn to distinguish between data flows (like Twitter) that can only be dipped into, and data storage (like books and emails) that can be fully consumed.