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10 Ways the Next 10 Years Are Going To Be Mind-Blowing WARNING: [|This site is strictly for the open-minded intellectual]. If you are susceptible to conservative mindsets, the material on this website will blow your mind.

Learning Is Changing
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Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history
Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics. media type="youtube" key="c_iN_QubRs0" height="405" width="660"

Interactive Mirror
Good news—you no longer have to wait until you've showered for the mirror to steam up enough so you can draw on it.In this article from Huffington Post, we get a look at the Lit and Interference Inc. brand new interactive mirror. In the video, you'll see it used for drawing, reading, organizing, and more. Beyond the obvious realm of science, it's interesting to think of how this could be utilized in advertising, the arts, and our everyday communications. You can even see something this exciting in the classroom, in place of a whiteboard, or as a miniaturized desktop version. Check out the video to see what this amazing technology does, and then let your mind soar as to what it could do. [|Posted by Ian Jukes]

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Do You Really Need An Interactive Whiteboard?
Here's a much cheaper way to allow children to interact with the screen. media type="youtube" key="NHDAB0fwP1I" height="405" width="500"

Moving On
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Web 3.0 The Way Forward?
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The Singularity is coming.
Futurist Ray Kurzwell predicts that computers will overtake the human brain within 15 to 20 years. What effect might that have? [|This article and embedded video explores this thought.]

Am I Preparing Students For My Age Or Theirs?
[|Challenging article and video:] ""Who seriously believes locking twenty-five students in a small room with one adult for several hours each day is the best way for them to be educated?"

Learning Styles Don't Exist
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Outrageous Alternatives to Schooling
Thought provoking article from[| Steve Wheeler], who is a keynote speaker at ULearn 2010.

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