Mark Pesce notes how schools (Educating Kids) try to block kids from using [Social Technology] (Social Software, MobIle) all day, only proving how irrelevant school is to reality. Let me be clear: I am a strict Constructiv Ist. I believe that children learn through interactions with their environment. I had come to realize that the environment for a child born at the turn of the millennium looked nothing like the world of 1962, the year I was born.... [Mizuko Ito], a Japanese researcher, studied teenagers in Japan a few years ago, and found that these kids - from the moment they wake up in the morning, until they drop off to sleep at night - are enaged in a continuous and mostly trival conversation with, on average, five other friends. ([Co Presence], Full Time Network)

With interesting bit about [Stephen Collins]' insertion of a WiKi into the board meetings of his kid's school, leading to broader adoption through the school.

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