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Calling all educators – have you used — or do you plan to use — Ayiti: The Cost of Life game in your classroom? Global Kids would love to know – please participate in this survey!

If you think technology can help people learn, make your voice heard! The New York Times would like to believe that laptops are a barrier to learning because they don’t directly contribute to a 19th or 20th century definition of “achievement.” But those of us who have experienced learning with technology know that computers aren’t [...]

those of us who endlessly debate and define the future of education and the skills that students will need in the 21st century…we express concern about how students will fare in the global economy, how they will face the challenges of the future, whether they will have the literacies needed to manuever this new information [...]

the first OLPC deployment – Nigeria. I’m not sure if this picture is making me smile ear to ear because of the future of learning it represents for students all over the world (not just in the OLPC pilot countries), or because the laptops appear already to be a source of wonder and engagement and [...]

Buried beneath the “news from Washington” about presidential hopefuls, the future of the Iraq War, and the Scooter Libby trial, is the perpetually unbelievable (truthfully, all too believable) state of DC Public Schools. Here are excerpts from a high school student who attends one of the several schools that have gone without heat this past [...]

Liveblogging James Paul Gee’s keynote at the NSBA’s Technology + Learning Conference, Dallas, Texas; November 2006. the old literacy gap — too many kids don’t read as well as they could the applications gap — even children who do well in school and can pass tests can’t apply their knowledge in the real world the [...]

I attended a panel today that claimed to be about social networking and education, but as tends to be all the educational conference rage, it was mostly about the dark side of what kids can do on MySpace and the adult-centric response (including what the adults at MySpace are doing to keep all the other [...]