Sorry for the long dry spell. I had to recharge the batteries after a busy fall and holiday season. Plus, I'm blogging regularly at Internet Evolution, which absorbs a lot of my spare time. I'm now hoping to get back to a regular blogging schedule here at GenBlend. In the meantime, my colleague and co-author Dan Rasmus has a new piece on the ...

I just stumbled across a blog called NetGen Nonsense, dedicated to debunking the ''myth'' of digital natives - that is, the relationship between the Millennial generation and collaborative technology. As far as I can see, the site posts some useful contrarian research and attempts to refute some of the more mainstream popularizers of the NetGen ...

If you can hear me over the wind, the ambient noise, and the occasional ambulance siren, here I am talking about ''Business School 2.0'' with interviewer Richard Collin of Grebnoble Ecole De Management at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. Cliff Notes version: business schools should help NetGen students discover the business value in the ...

Clive Crook thinks it is. His piece on the Atlantic Monthly blog (entitled ''The Dumbing of America'') notes a study that shows that, ''For the first time in decades, and probably ever, workers retiring from the US labor force will be better-educated on average (according to one measure anyway) than their much younger counterparts.'' He laments ...

Mark Edmundson, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, has a thought-provoking and well-written essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the transformation of the learning experience in the age of ubiquitous networks. He seems sympathetic and in-touch with the experience of the always-on Millennials who filter through his ...

In Philadelphia, a fair number of the better private secondary schools are run by Quakers. I graduated from one of them, the William Penn Charter School, in 1985, and benefited not only from a good education, but also from the school's forward-leaning approach to technology, even back then. I saw my first PC (actually an Apple II) in the school's ...