Learning Question - what's happening in mobile & tech for education this week?

* Andys Black Hole: Mobile Youth report well worth a read
Mobile Youth http://www.mobileyouth.org/ ... covering youth lifestyle trends and mobile consumption in 60 countries worldwide

* Does mobile affect youth learning and other life skills?
Josh Dhaliwal from mobileYouth on BBC breakfast. View the video on Blinx/BBC website

* TeachMate.org - Teach & Learn Over The Web
Is there something you wish to learn? Is there something you can teach to others? The Internet makes it a doodle, and web services like TeachMate do nothing but remind us of that.

* School Gardens Grow Healthier Kids
Grow your own greens, get kids to eat greens, get OUT in the green, turn people green, live green, teach green, plant trees to game green and even SEED green in virtual worlds, yep, I’d say the healthy kids movement is fully underway…

* Integrating Facebook Into Your Course
I've been trying to think of different ways to integrate Facebook into my courses this fall.

* What Teens Want: Computers in Class and Wi-Fi on Campus based on Latest Teen Lab Research
This is the second article in a series based on our new technology in education research we conducted in August 2008. You can read the first article here. The complete study isn’t posted yet, but if you are interested in a briefing, please let us know.

* Social Minds - learning technology for virtual worlds
Please excuse this shameless plug for my brother’s new venture, Social Minds. Back in 1997, Edmund went to work in Japan for a year.