What's Now and What's Coming There's an excellent series of articles on news.com about current trends in Internet technology. One of the best articles is on the so-called millenial generation, a generation of kids, ranging in age from 8-22. These kids have always been online, on cell phones, making connections with each other. The way these kids have grown up has not only changed their social lives, but it's changed the way they learn. Seymour Papert of MIT's Media Lab explained it this way:

"The question at stake is no longer whether technology can change education or even whether this is desirable . . . The presence of technology in society is a major factor in changing the entire learning environment."

I highly recommend the whole series as a good introduction to what we often refer to as Web 2.0.

Via Blended Edu.

web 2.0, educational technology ¶ 10:17 AM, posted by Laura