Nick Carr has a highly thought provoking piece in the Atlantic this month titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” that raises some challenging questions…

We’ve been wondering how long it will take until having a positive digital footprint becomes an expectation rather than an exception—and we’re already reserving domains so our kids can shape the story people find when they’re Googled.

Reflecting on Mark Bauerline’s book The Dumbest Generation, we argue that today’s young people are not “dumb” because of their technology use; rather, it is adults’ responsibility to model and guide meaningful learning with digital tools.

We reflect on a recent post about 21st Century Skills for Teachers that drew 130+ comments and trackbacks, what that says about a growing, more connected network, the upsides and downsides of such intense participation, and the many new voices that joined the conversation.

Paul Allison shared an NCTE update that pushes us to think more expansively about literacy in the 21st century, emphasizing multiple, dynamic, and malleable literacies shaped by technology and connectivity.

School librarian Thomas Washington’s essay in the Christian Science Monitor argues that in an age of information overload, knowledge is less about acquiring more and more, and more about becoming proficient at tossing things out. We reflect on our own scanning-heavy reading habits, the guilt that comes with them, and the broader educator unease about what reading is becoming in a test-driven, information-saturated culture.

Tomorrow, Amazon is set to release “Kindle,” the digital book reader that holds over 200 books and does a whole lot more. We may be on the verge of moving one of the last bastions of the analog world online, raising questions about how connected, digital reading will change books, readers, and authorship.

Bud Hunt was nice enough to throw up a test of the CommentPress theme that allows paragraph by paragraph commenting, and we posted some session descriptions we were thinking about for the Learning 2.0 Conference we’ll be at in Shanghai in September.

The front page of today’s New York Times features a story about the attempts of Tim O’Reilly and Jimmy Wales to create a set…

Karl’s “Did You Know?” video has gone viral with over two million views, sparking powerful reactions in schools and helping set the stage for a much bigger conversation about education and learning.