Interesting read document the ways in which "education" is being reframed in this country at the peril, I think, of losing everything that is best about schools and teachers and classrooms.

Interesting perspective

Very interesting post about online identity

Google has just published a terrific new guide to staying safe online. Since we all likely use at least a few of their products, it's a guide worth checking out. From preventing phishing scams to cookies to properly signing out from websites…there's a trove of information that you should check out.

And isn't this all so ironic. We live in an information age that puts a premium on the ability to find, decode, evaluate, store and communicate information. Today's student should be in training to become a critically-thinking citizen and the best response schools can come up with is to force-feed students in sanitized information feedlots.

An indepth study

an example of using twitter in the classroom

Twitter can be used as a backchannel, encouraging reflection and conversation between kids. Twitter can give students a voice that they haven't generally had. Twitter can become a place to imagine. In the end, using Twitter in high school classrooms makes sense mostly because it is a social space that has already been embraced by today's teens.

The problem with Prensky's assumption is that it's based on age--on the idea that, because you were born in a certain era, you must be a certain way. Of course, we know that's not true. Even among your 20-somethings, there are students who are very tech-savvy and those who are not. The term is a generalization, and the reality is much more nuanced."

As for her advice for parents, Takeuchi suggests that they make screen time into family time by watching TV or playing video games with their kids. That would help inform parents about how much digital media their kids are consuming and make it a more enriching experience.

Interesting info graphic on the uses of the internet