links for 2010-04-26

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"This research – which is part of a wider body of work supported by Becta to contribute to their 'Harnessing Technology’ strategy – will address the following questions: What factors support learners in successfully negotiating relationships between home and school learning; and how might digital technologies support learners, parents and teachers to mediate home-school relationships?"

What children learn at home makes a real difference to attainment. Lyndsay Grant from education research charity Futurelab discusses a new report into home-school relationships and digital technologies

A new study out today from the International Center for Media & the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland, concludes that most college students are not just unwilling, but functionally unable to be without their media links to the world.