What’s the future role of technology in education? Recently the MacArthur Foundation announced its Digital Media and Learning Grants winners. After receiving over a 1000 proposals, 17 projects were funded.  Andy Carvin, self -described Internet activist and host of learning.com  shares some of his favorite winning projects that just may

 foreshadow the direction of the future of technology. . Using 2.0 hypermedia, Hyper Cities produce interactive digital models of real cities that span not only space but time. Providing the necessary infrastructure, HyperCities interactive “city platforms” provide the foundation of “geo- temporal human web” enabling the preservation of a city’s time and   memory.