Report identifies ed-tech trends to watch

REPORT IDENTIFIES ED-TECH TRENDS TO WATCH
[SOURCE: eSchool News, AUTHOR: Justin Appel]
A recent report from the New Media Consortium and the nonprofit group EDUCAUSE identifies six emerging technology trends that could have a significant impact on education in the next one to five years: User-created content; Social networking; Mobile phones; Virtual worlds; New scholarship and emerging forms of publication; and Massively multiplayer educational gaming.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=6870

MCNEALY SAYS NONPROFIT CURRIKI WEB SITE ENCOURAGES LEARNING
[SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle, AUTHOR: Benjamin Pimentel]
Scott McNealy likes to say that he stepped up, not down, from his former post as CEO of Sun Microsystems, the Silicon Valley giant he co-founded 25 years ago. Today, McNealy is focused on a rapidly changing part of the online world: K-12 education. McNealy has spent most of the past year as the leading pitchman for Curriki, a nonprofit group that's trying to build a mega-Web site of educational materials that teachers, students and parents anywhere in the world can use, modify, critique and expand on. And they can do all that for free. Think Wikipedia for educators, schoolchildren and their parents. McNealy calls it "open-source curricula."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/13/BUGRFO3BOA1.DTL&type=tech