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Summary: Interesting compilation of statistics illustrating the meteoric rise of social media and its deep influence on our culture.  A good review of where things stand.  

Summary: "Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity."

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"Its education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp."

"Creativity now is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status."

"Picasso once said this, all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up... We don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather we get educated out of it. Why is this?"

Summary: "Anil Dash says the great challenge for new media involves balancing competing demands for accessibility and immediacy."

Quote: "The real innovations that are going to happen in new media are going to be about bringing that cutting edge... bringing it down to a level that anyone can do it."

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Summary: Learn about six emerging technologies and practices likely to enter the mainstream in education over the coming five years.

Quote: "Far more than a collection of free online course materials, the open content movement is a response to the rising costs of education, the desire for access to learning in areas where such access is difficult, and an expression of student choice about when and how to learn."