Another article depicting the rise of do-it-yourself education. The use of the term 'schoolers' is new. "Schoolers are applying new tools to traditional goals to crack open the case on the traditional schoolhouse. With laptops, tablets, and cell phones, students no longer wait to be spoon-fed information, but reach out beyond the walls of the classroom for images, information, and insights at the moment the question arises for them." I think it might be derived from the term 'home schoolers' - there was no obvious search result on Google. Maybe O'Reilly is going for a brand, like they did with web 2.0. Maybe they just want to avoid the irrelevant links - like Siemens, Groom and Cormier - that keep showing up ahead of of MIT and Stanford, as though they invented it or something.
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