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In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, open education and connectivism advocate George Siemens, takes you to news and stories on emerging media, communication technologies and education-related trends, helping you make good sense of the many changes taking place around you and of how these directly impact your daily lives.

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Inside this Media Literacy Digest:

• The Brain Chip… - Consider the brain chip: “Intel researchers in Pittsburgh told journalists today that brain implants are harnessing human brain waves to surf the Internet, manipulate documents, and much more“.
• Chrome OS - Lots of reaction to Google’s Chrome OS (web operating system, in theory, a means to do away with Windows, Mac, Linux).
• Salesforce Chatter - Salesforce, like many other companies, is jumping onto the enterprise social media bandwagon with the soon-to-be-released Chatter.
• Video Games: Modern Warfare - Controversy aside, Modern Warfare 2 is an interesting “sign of the times“. In its first week of release, the game generated $550 million (in UK and North America).
• LearnTrends Recordings - After three days of five+ hours work of presentations, we have (Jay Cross, Tony Karrer, and I) wrapped up our third annual LearnTrends conference.
• Elearning Conferences 2010 - Clayton Wright publishes as complete a listing of educational technology conferences as you are likely to find anywhere.
• Oslo Presentations - I am in Oslo. I have a total of four face-to-face presentations and three online presentations to deliver this week. We are also running the LearnTrends conference online. So it is a bit hectic.

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