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Vision 3: Free access to technology and content

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by Mickey Muldoon August 15, 2011

Uruguay is the first country in the world to commit to providing a free, internet-enabled computer to every one of its students, through the Massachusetts-based One Laptop Per Child initiative. More »

Amazing Facts

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by Tom Vander Ark December 12, 2010

Here’s a handful of amazing facts about the brave new media world More »

Tapscott Refutes Richel: Smartest Gen is Multi-tasking

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by Tom Vander Ark November 24, 2010

Dan Tapscott posted a brilliant rebuttal of Richel’s NYTimes ‘the Internet is making kids dumb’ article More »

Obama Encourages Students to Communicate in “Smaller” World

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by edReformer Staff November 8, 2010

Discussions about self-awareness in a global marketplace and in an increasingly smaller world are not just diplomatic touches during another visit to a foreign country. These communications points are ever more important when technology and the Internet keep bringing primary, secondary and post-secondary students closer on a global level. More »

Content Filtering in a Digital Age

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by edReformer Staff October 21, 2010

Perhaps because it is taking an intellectual and analytical examination of policy, a recent article fails to mention that there are LMSs on the market now that address privacy and content concerns for students, and they do so in such a way that they give a lot of control and leverage to the teacher, who can choose exactly what and how he or she wants the kids to interact online. More »

Will Richardson: Change Agent

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by edReformer Staff October 12, 2010

Can Will Richardson help teachers alter the culture of teaching to accept more willingness to engage in the global Internet and in interactive collaboration using tools on the web? We hope so. More »

Internet Trends — Morgan Stanley Report

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by edReformer Staff July 14, 2010

Morgan Stanley released an important study of Internet use. Things are going mobile. Things are getting faster. School sales cycles, and adoption rates, by the way, are not moving the same way. More »

Pranav Mistry and Vint Cerf: The Case of Wearable Education

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by edReformer Staff July 5, 2010

Imagine an education infrastructure that wires kids to a global communication system that is designed to aid and abet their understanding of the world, rather than threaten them with a multitude of uncontrollable unknowns. Vint Cerf, who worked with others to invent and develop what is now our commercial Internet, says a few things that I think can be extrapolated for the ed reform community. More »

Under the Sea with Internet

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by edReformer Staff June 26, 2010

With new Internet lines, a new charter school in Peoria, Illinois will soon be discovering the Black Sea with a submersible robot and heavy duty plasma screens. More »

Big Blue Threatens Price Increase

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by edReformer Staff June 17, 2010

While most of us using the Internet just want to be free — including Google, Facebook and other social media platforms for information and people networking — the FCC is starting to tussle publicly with AT&T and Comcast about floated FCC regulations to impose net neutrality. What does it mean for education? More »

Lidia and the Gift of the Collective Brain

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by edReformer Staff June 13, 2010

“The way we learned was, when one classmate learned how to do something, they’d teach another classmate…and that classmate would teach another classmate.” Lidia, young girl in Peruvian Amazon, using her new laptop. More »

Dumb Research Supports a Dumb Argument

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by Tom Vander Ark June 5, 2010

The WSJ hosted a now tired debate: does the Internet make us smarter or dumber? More »

Filling the Gap: New Film for Social Studies Repairs Damaged History Perspective

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by edReformer Staff April 28, 2010

A new movie seeks to repair lack of full perspective in the stories of African-Americans in U.S. history More »

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tvanderark: great story in the making: Bridge Intl helping BOP kids in Kenya gain high rates of literacy for $4/mo