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However, after reflecting on the session and speaking with some of the attendees, it is apparent that the embracement of social media in schools and by educators will continue to be an uphill battle.  For those educators and schools that are either resistant to or unsure about using social media I pose these questions to you:

An interesting, holistic (philosophical if you may...) study of internet as part of modern society, whether accepted or resisted to... It shows as well how people have adapted to it, so that total privacy won't be lost, and, of course,the fear of social media...

selling points for 1:1 computing

After reading this, I am struck by the thought of how the excitement and motivation changes from when a child is in elementary school to when he/she attends high school. At the high school level it often appears that the students resist looking at the sites they are instructed to. I have often passed by a classroom window where several of the students were on a relevant site while the rest were looking at anything from football to what is on sale at a local department school.

This slideshow shows how people can be resistant to change.

OK, this one has a little bit of everything and very concise and clear, but what I loved the most was the quotes... An example: "Computers in the future may weigh no more than one and a half tons." -Popular Mechanics, Forecasting the Relentless March of Science, 1949.