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A pathfinding new book The Hyperlinked Society does not included education as a topic.
A PajamasMedia blog post this morning titled “A ‘To-Do’ List for the Next Education President” does not mention the Internet.
These are astounding disconnects by adults as youngsters in middle school, and all children younger than that, have never known a world without the internet.
PREDICTION: Within the next 3 years at the most education will experience the same magnitude of change that it did when our great-grandparents realized schooling should be preparing the new generation for the industrial age. Now that mobile devices are beginning to deliver the internet well, and the kids have the mobiles in their pockets, the platform for that change is in place. When the twain of education and the internet connect at last, global enlightenment will soon follow.
