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It’s the distracted generation, the ADD generation, and the target of countless articles by The New York Times bemoaning its loss of attention and focus; yes, it’s the millennial generation.

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Google Chromebook is on the way (coming in June), and it’s seeking to change the way you think about computers.

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For better or worse, some teaching topics and students lessons are falling out of favor in current curriculum.
 
Here are the top 12 things you learned in school that may not be taught today:

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Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School
Be aware of the insidious and unspoken lessons you learned as a child. To thrive in the world outside the classroom, you’re going to have to unlearn them.

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Some suggestions are well-known—insert keywords—but others are less obvious, like post a comment with your URL on another blog to answer someone's question.

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buntu’s Unity desktop is a change of pace, whether you’re coming from Windows or another Linux distribution with a more traditional interface. Unity has its own way of doing things, including powerful keyboard shortcuts.

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Much has been written about the structures, the founders and the personalities that have moulded the image of the amazingly successful business – Apple.  Not only have we, the consumer, been able to establish new day-to-day routines by using the numerous Apple products on the market, but, aware of it or not, our lives have been deeply impacted and altered.

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VoIP communications company Fonality conducted a survey to find out which mundane office tasks suck the most time out of the day. Pinpointing and compiling all those wasted man hours could save companies some substantial coin. The folks at social performance management tool Rypple compiled the infographic below based on that data.

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To give you an idea, here’s a list of 101 cool things you could do with a social intranet, such as Noodle. As you will see, a social intranet is worlds away from the traditional intranet of yester-year.

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The path to financial freedom is financial — not traditional — education.

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In 30 minutes, your SSN can be dug out using free internet resources. Recruiters sniff the net for personal data about you and base their hiring decisions on what they read. This can mean good news or bad news, depending on what kind of online reputation you have. Here’s what you should do to ensure your online presence is stigma free.

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Here are ten of our favorite web sites containing a wealth of useful help and support relating to e-learning.  They are are all free and listed in no particular order so please explore them all.

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LearnBoost‘s free suite of classroom and school tools cover a whole range of needs. We’ve built so many useful features and enhancements since our early days that we sometimes see our early users miss some of the functionality within LearnBoost.

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During a couple breakout sessions at a Rhode Island conference on Innovation Powered by Technology (#iptrideconf) I spent time with teachers and principals thinking about next steps as they prepare for the shift to personal digital learning.  We discussed 10 next steps:

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Today marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, and in honour of the celebrated author, we dug up some facts about him that you might not know.

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The Stupid Things You Do Online (and How to Fix Them)

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Designer and art director Peter Jaworowski teamed up with SYZYGY London to illustrate and mash-up 20 of the most notable things that happened on the old webs of inter in 2011.

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When students get bored their minds drift.

And while some settle on daydreaming, tile-counting, and general inattentiveness, other students are drawn to more…ahem…destructive pursuits.

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In contention with online music stores like Apple iTunes and Amazon MP3, Google has finally and officially launched its very own Google Music last Wednesday. At first glance, this cloud-based service seems pretty similar to what Apple and Amazon has to offer with their online music storage. However, there are a few subtle differences between Google Music and the rest that might eventually place the former on top of the competition.

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But beyond that, this phone and its predecessors can do a ton of cool stuff that you might not even know.

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