My favorite (and most successful) story this week -- What Do Kids Say Is the Biggest Obstacle to Technology at School -- looked at the Speak Up 2010 survey, in which students did just that: had a chance to speak up about how technology is (and isn't) being used for teaching and learning at their schools. Their main beefs: cellphone bans and Internet filters.

I am a huge proponent of the mobile phone (and not the tablet) as the tech tool we need to emphasize. That survey seemed to indicate that parents agree, the vast majority saying they'd pay for a phone and a data plan for their kids if they could use them at school. Um, hello. That's parents saying they're willing to equip their kids with a pocket computer. Let's make that happen.

But instead we ban. We ban the cellphone, and we erect these walls around the Internet on school campuses. "For the sake of the children," of course.

No doubt, filters are a huge obstacle for teachers and students -- something we don't talk about nearly enough. ("We" -- whoever that is.) Well, I talked about it several times this week, in a follow-up story I wrote about filtering for NPR's MindShift blog and one that I contributed some reporting to.

As for the best stories I didn't write, well, tune in next week. I have several I'm working on -- for RWW, for MindShift, and now to the latest place where you'll be able to find my writing: O'Reilly Media's Radar blog.