Hello all, back after an extended period...insert standard excuses here!

If you haven't read it, I highly recommend Chris Dede's latest work(s) on "neomillenial learning styles."

For some time, I have been trying to describe the latest developments on the net (blogging, podcasting, RSS, social software, etc.) to educational colleages in a coherent way. I have explained that progress in this area now reminds me of the excitement of the mid-1990's, as the Web broke onto the scene for all of us, but summarizing the varied array of emerging tools has proved difficult.

Table 1 in Prof. Dede's piece gets to many of the latest developments and weaves them into the framework of emerging learning styles. What we are seeing is an explosion of tools and environments which, applied to learning, allow students to learn based on "collectively seeking, sieving, and synthesizing experiences rather than individually locating and absorbing information from some single best source" and to express themselves through "nonlinear, associational webs."

As an aside, I had a chance to meet and interact with Professor Dede several years ago, when he was a guest and keynote speaker at UTA's Technology Fair--he is clearly a writer to add to your reading lists!