The 21st Century

The Future of Educational Technology and Education 3.0... Thinking of what education might look like in the next decade, one quickly realizes that the trends in technology are leaving a large number of our students behind.

This article was sent to us by Reg Nordman. Both it and the accompanying video are from MIT World, which is similar to TED in its format. Karen Cator describes in this lecture how the sway that technology has had over our entire lives foreshadows the same type of innovative thinking that will transform the average classroom into an engaging learning environment for all students.

Witness it, while in the making:

 The original internet was server and geo-centric due to its origins in academia and DARPA where computers were expensive and "always-on" networking was limited to large institutions.