Alan November argues that educators should take advantage of students' high comfort level with networked tools. Via Laura Blankenship's tweets (that's GeekyMom to you): http://snipr.com/1ne3v.
Mary Douglas, one of the most brilliant thinkers of the 20th century in my opinion, died last week. tpq62 clipped the obit (http://rurl.org/3f3). This page has links to some of her words, interviews, and scholarly assessments.