Whenever I present on educational law I almost always run into questions about educational technology. I have even presented on that specific topic: Educational Law in Light of the Technological Revolution. So, it was no surprise last week when myself and some colleagues were presenting to a group of women administrators that a question came up on the law related to educational technology. What always strikes me, however, about the types of questions that administrators ask is how out-of-touch they really are. For instance, just this last week, the question revolved around teacher speech and the Internet, specifically blogs. While that is a good and relevant question that we did our best to answer, the administrators on hand were slow to acknowledge that teachers actually had blogs or MySpace pages. Umm, yes, they do. Not only that, but many administrators themselves have blogs.

So, not like this will reduce the number of questions, but I want to point my readers to four videos that will start to give you an idea of just how much the world is changing around us. It takes about 30 min. to watch them all, and I gave links to places where you can find more videos on the subject.

Did You Know 2.0

Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us.

A Vision of Students Today

2020 Vision

And that is just the beginning. There is a lot more video content available at the Moving Forward Wiki.