Google is widely (and rightly) recognised as the mother of all search engines. But, if you need to drill down your searches by more specific details, do you trust Google to give you ... ... Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
Creativity, Innovation, Team Building, Leadership, Brainstorming, Idea Champions... 
But technology is only as good as the system it’s applied to. Much like a fresh coat of paint will not improve the fuel efficiency of a ’69 Mustang, the application of technology to a broken system masks deeper problems with short-term gains. Via Nik Peachey 
These Google Docs tips inspire awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive. thanks to david andrade. Via Donna Browne 
Sept 2010 but NY Times Edgcation Technology
Today’s 21st century students are not like their parents’ generation. Never before have we, as a civilization, experienced such a large generation gap — and the reason behind it is video games. Within the span of only one generation the world’s dominant form of entertainment has shifted from passive (TV, Novels, Comic Books, Theater, etc) to interactive. This represents a fundamental shift in individual interactions with the community, and other segments of society are struggling to keep up. Via Nik Peachey, Maureen Greenbaum 
Futurist Jack Uldrich provides a future scenario looking out to the year 2020 for higher education. SmoEye monitoring Twitter page. Social media reports, social network public page monitoring, brands monitoring. 
MOBILE PHONES: BANDWIDTH ISSUES: NATURAL USER INTERFACES: Siri, increasing accessibility GAMING: flourishing of mobile technologies, with the promise of data and analytics, and with a realization that we can create new and engaging ways to move through lessons, we are likely to see an explosion of educational gaming apps this year 
As connection speeds increase and the ubiquity of the Web pervades, free education has never been so accessible. An Internet connection gives lifelong learners the tools to become ... Links to the Best article of 2011 ..most worth reading
How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education This was our seminal piece on online education
Stay in or drop out? The entrepreneur’s education fiasco There’s a lot of debate right now about whether or not paying for a degree is worth it, a particular problem facing entrepreneurs.
How Technology Has Changed Education
Education is the next startup Gold Rush, Silicon Valley will be at its heart 
don’t just bring the assumptions and limitations of the previous technology into the current technology. Learn the limitations and possibilities of the new, and make the thing that best meets your goals with those opportunities and constraints.
Eventually these textbook apps might end up being able to replace not just the books, but many of the teachers as well.
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ten minute video ... Asimove died in 92 but he is talking about where education is now...and where it should be Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
Video chat and projects like Skype in the Classroom are making it easier than ever for teachers to connect their students with experiences from around the world. 
Veteran Education Week reporters Catherine Gewertz and Erik Robelen bring you news and analysis of issues at the core of classroom learning. I left this comment: Technology is a tool, just one of tools a good teachers employs to help students learn. The more students write and revise their writing, provided it is directed by with good feedback, the better the student's ability to communicate in writing will become. The feedback could get come peers. Better feedback is could be given by teachers. But the more rapid feedback, with iterations needed for mastery and what is seen as less critical feedback is now available from technology. One type of feedback does not preclude the others. 
This is a must read (and probably everyting it links to is too!) Student-centered learning, provides “flexible learning experiences that enable students at various levels to build toward mastery of a common set of core skills. A commitment to addressing the individual needs and goals of each student is at the core of the model.
Education should give students opportunities to practice setting goals, tracking progress toward them, adjusting strategies along the way, and assessing outcomes. Providing meaningful learning experiences with ongoing guidance can enable students at all levels to build toward mastery of a common set of skills.
Student-centered approaches to learning require students to be self-directed and responsible for their own learning, which requires executive functioning skills such as goal setting, planning, and monitoring progress.
This site is for teachers and educators of all grade levels and subject areas. It hosts short tutorial videos on many of the best digital tools to use with students. Its also a growing community of ideas submitted by teachers for classroom use. 
The 101 best web 2.0 tools for teachers based on functionality, application in education, ease of use and compatibility with popular educational technology. Via Donna Browne 
Pinterest has taken off in the past few months. According to a Shareholic study, it exceeds reddit, Google+, Linkedin, and YouTube as a referral source. It may seem as though everyone you know is Pinning something to the online bulletin boards to share their favorite articles, collections, and items available online.
This is a great social networking tool that you can use for educational purposes, whether you are a teacher or a student.
This tool can make it possible to create boards for specific projects and to collect and share lesson resources.
Be sure to see the education page! Via Gust MEES 
QUESTION: If SOPA/PIPA had been passed into U.S. law in 2002, would Wikipedia exist today? If either law had passed in 2012, would Wikipedia exist in 2022? Why or why not? Discuss.
If you cannot answer that question, you are not literate nor are you in control of your life—even if you think you are.
Digital Humanists need to start “at home,” of course, with transforming higher education and ensuring that digital literacy is pervasive, intrinsic, and basic to what every college graduate knows and does. Digital literacy means not rote learning but experimentation, process, creativity, not just technology but multimedia imagination, expression–and principles too. It means learning why we don’t have to just be consumers of technology but also active participants in its flourishing. Digital literacy helps us to believe in and fight for the Web. That’s crucial, as we saw on January 17, in order to keep the Web as free as possible, for your future and beyond. If we are going to remake the institutions of learning to help us thr
Do social media, interactive whiteboards and other recent innovations benefit students? What are the downsides? Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
I left this comment News last month was Pearson will be using Adaptive Learning software from Knewtonwww.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/11/01/pearson-knewton-team-up-to-personalize-college to power its online reading, writing and math courses for incoming freshmen in remedial classes. In the emporium method “when students fail to master a concept and are forced to backtrack, the problems they couldn’t solve are replaced with new ones.“ But with Adaptive Learning the delivery method is personalized for each student. When the learner fails to master a concept, not only is the content changed, but also the delivery method. All the while, the computer is data mining what succeeds and fails with this student to customize the learning. This goes way beyond MyMathLab. In 1984 Benjamin Bloom found the one-on-one tutoring produced a 2 sigma difference in learning over conventional teaching. He called it the 2 sigma problem because it was an insolvable problem of how to do this is a group setting. Adaptive Learninghas solved the problem ( bit.ly/ALCER presents these ideas). If faculty will relinquish some of the delivery tasks, they can help individual student with individual problems. Students “biggest beef was that the lab requires more effort than listening to a lecture” That is because student-centered active learning always requires more work from the students. As faculty know, and students eventually realize, it not only time on task, but effort on task, that results in mastery. Students will remain motivated if they are working on on areas they need and not wasting time on those they don’t. Computer software has the additional benefit that students comfortable using it and it can be available 24/7. The Adaptive Learning software feedback is instantaneous and non-judgement. It provide constant formative assessment (one-on-one tutoring) needed for mastery.
Highlighed http://diigo.com/0m3ey Whether we like it or not, we live in a very unequal and stratified world.
inequalities in the networked world are: the lack of digital and media literacies; critical thinking and communication skills in order to navigate and evaluate data online; an information and knowledge gap; and collaboration and participatory inequalities.
it doesn’t have to do so much with hardware and internet access as much as with the way those are used.
we live in an Information Society determined by a “filter Bubble”, with the vast majority of Internet and Web services moving toward the next generation of the Semantic web, access to knowledge and its deployment in everyday work and education is crucial for producing the results and fostering the competence of scientists, scholars and knowledge workers. Access to information is the key to an individual’s position in society
education plays a significant role in either strengthening or breaking down inequalities.
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