Web technology is about to change how we learn - Russell Moench, Venture Beat

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Web technology is about to change how we learn - Russell Moench, Venture Beat

from Educational Technology by Ray
The education industry is on the cusp of being massively disrupted by innovation in Web technology. Like other industries prior, it would like to pretend that it can weather the storm and continues business as usual, with only minor tweaking. We all know how that story ends. It won’t happen immediately, and the path won’t be a direct one. Marketing giants such foreign-language instructor Rosetta

From Daniel Pink

This is from Daniel Pink's blog
Factoid of the day: Revenge of the nonspecialist
Published October 5th, 2009

Yesterday afternoon, I was reading Jerry de Jaager and Jim Ericson’s smart new book, See New Now, and came across this stunner:
“A study of the top fifty game-changing innovations over a hundred-year period showed that nearly 80 percent of those innovations were sparked by someone whose primary expertise was outside the field in which the innovation breakthrough took place.”

#IranElection Crisis: A Social Media Timeline by Ben Parr

Ben Parr in "Mashable: The Social Media Guide" provides the most comprehensive history of the interaction of social media on the Iran election crisis: #IranElection Crisis: A Social Media Timeline. If it had not been for Twitter, YouTube and Flicker, we would have never known of the events in Iran. Certainly the mainstream media did not cover it.

Web 2.0 and the Iran Election

From Ben Parr's blog "Mashable: The Social Media Guide" we have these amazing statistics on the #Iranelection:
Twitter: 221,744 “Iran” Tweets in One Hour
The Blogosphere: 2,250,000 Blog Posts in 24 hours
YouTube: 184,500 Videos on Iran, 3000 in One Day
The photo below is from one of these blogs: "tehran 24: Daily Photos from Iran."http://tehranlive.org/2009/06/17/demonstration-and-protests-to-election-results-the-5th-day/

Iranian Revolution on Twitter

If you aren't following the Iranian revolution on Twitter, your missing out on one of the most important events of your lifetime. Here's a piece by Clay Shirkey on TED:

Library of Congress on Flicker

The Library of Congress has recently published some of its most popular Depression era photos on Flickr:

Microsoft offers free tools for high schoolers

Re-blog from Educational Technology, Microsoft Corporation is offering Visual Studio and XNA Game Studio for free as a service to high school students.  Will try to get it for my elementary students as they are very good at multimedia.