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

I spend much of my time reading, writing, discussing, and blogging about ideas around the broad theme of 21st Century learning. More specifically, what should 21st Century learning look like? How can social networking technologies be harnessed in learning spaces? read more

Just love this video! I don't necessarily agree with their choice of people in the video - but I guess this was made for American audiences. The words and the message, however, are simply brilliant! Truly inspiring stuff...

Nearly 90% (in my view) of child laborers are rural children. Most migrate to cities and end up begging, prostitution, domestic helpers, or other odd jobs. Child labour issue can not be dealt until and unless concerned organizations influence appropriate Governments to reevaluate the economic policies and rural economic growth. Till now rural economy is only known as agricultural economy and never emphasized on add-on value products. Governments have to consider growing and generating rural employment. read more

Michael Wesch (mwesch on youtube), he of the The Machine is Us/ing Us fame, spoke at length on the anthropology of Youtube in an entertaining and enlightening lecture delivered at the Library of Congress about a month ago. read more

As a technology teacher I am introducing students to web2.0 tools. Last week my lesson was designed to leave kids well aware that there's too much infomations and not every piece is a fact. I began my class with this video on u tube...

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4

When i asked them what thoughts crossed their mind while watching the video... read more

Google and Common Sense Media have teamed up to create this video of common sense tips and rules for families to help keep their children safe online. The video is up on youtube - http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=kUyQI0USNSY

Not sure how different this was from the workshop on Internet Safety conducted by Google in Mumbai that was mentioned in this post recently.

"The "Incredible India" campaign is Ministry of Tourism's primary vehicle for communicating the wonders of India to the entire world. read more

(...as are so many things on the web these days (or at least seemingly so :))

Thus readeth the tag line of this amazing site for free documentaries that a friend shared last night. Freedocumentaries.org has about 125 documentaries that are also categorized by themes and regions of the world. read more

After sharing that post about Animoto, I realized that I had not shared my experiences with MS Photo Story for Digital Storytelling.

A lot has been said and discussed here about getting kids to engage in creative storytelling using the myriad digital tools we have at our disposal today. read more