Kids today are often referred to as “digital natives”. They enjoy being able to express themselves through the many digital technologies that they are so facile with; technologies that they would enjoy putting to use for the purposes of learning (and school work) as well.

This video was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills and be better prepared to succeed in the century. read more

In case you have not caught this on the news wire, India is all set to launch a $7 or Rs. 500 laptop. read more

A hugely anticipated PC game, Spore - was launched worldwide in September this year. This game has not only enthralled many kids and adults alike around the world, but also got educators talking about the value of this game in education - to help children learn about the concept of evolution, survival, migration, city development, trade and trade routes, and design of creatures and spaceships (among other things). read more

Winner of the 2008 Manthan Award for e-Inclusion, Skid is designed to help kids with disabilities communicate and learn. 

Check out the skid.org.in website for the software as well as ideas on how to get a child started. read more

Seven years ago, Marc Prensky authored a seminal article titled Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants- in which he coined and used these now-famous phrases to describe (respectively) the students of today who are “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet; and those of us who were not born in read more

This is a continuation of the thread on technology tools for Geo Education initiated in the previous post where I discussed Google Maps in the classroom. read more

This is an article written for the New York Times by a self-professed techno-optimist about the coming of age of technology use in classrooms after years of bumbling and trying and testing.

The context is US schools and quite different from the average school in India in terms of access to technology -  "The ratio of computers to pupils is one to one. Technology isn’t off in a computer lab. read more

A great blog article on how technology will shape our lives.

War of the worlds

Excerpt from the article

Technology is beginning to assail the underlying concepts of our educational system - a system that's huge and rich and so far fairly immune to economic influence. read more

If you have not already come across this browser (and the related story of a grandfather who developed this browser for his autistic grandson), here is some info on and link to the ZAC (Zone for Autistic Children) browser.

"ZAC is the first web browser developed specifically for children with autism, and autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmenta read more

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i am madhuri kadkol teaching computer subject in an IGCSE school mumbai.i have planned curriculum for grade 5-8 i want u all to put in suggestion and comments on it.that would help me a lot. we have 3 terms in a year. for the first term i have planned Office publisher 2007 for Grade 5(basic-intermidate lavel). Office Excel 2007 for grade 6 (basic-intermidiate level). Creating web pages/website (HTML) for Grade 7. C- programming for Grade 8( basic)

for later terms i have planned, Audacity for grade 5.Drape programming for grade 6. Scratch Animation for grade 7. read more