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Nature - The younger generation uses technology in the same ways as older people — and is no better at multitasking.

A Stanford study finds students are really bad at evaluating sources. But how do we get them to care?

Smartphones are fueling a shift in the communication landscape for teens. Nearly three-quarters of teens now use smartphones and 92% of teens report going online daily — including 24% who say they go online "almost constantly."

A multi-year qualitative study of undergraduates at six colleges at the City University of New York focused on how, where, and when students accomplis

This paper takes a critical approach to a discourse still commonly applied in our discussions and understandings of the relationship between practitioners in higher education and the new digital technologies – that of the distinction between the

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A study found that South Korea leads the world in its percentage of youth who have used the Internet for at least five years. At the bottom of the list is the Pacific island of Timor-Leste.

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Young children—even toddlers—are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development?

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OLPC doesn't work. Ockerbloom: "education by airdrop." A certain amount of scaffolding seems necessary before learners can make the leap.

For Leadership Day 2012, I thought I would gather in one place many of the talking points that I use with principals and superintendents about Internet safety... Even though they may use fancy terms and know more than you do about their domain, you never would allow your business manager or special education coordinator to operate without oversight. So stop doing so with your technology coordinator. The technology function of your school organization exists to serve the educational function, not the other way around. Corollary: your technology coordinator works for you, not vice versa. Mobile phones, Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, blogs, Wikispaces, Google, and whatever