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What are The Top Ten Social Learning and Educational Networking Competencies for K-12 Teachers?* Help students use educational networking tools to solve information problems and communicate digitally with experts, peers and instructors. Know the major Web 2.0 categories and tools that are useful in the K-12 setting. Know which tools are provided/supported by one's school. Use educational networking sites to communicate with teaching peers, students and parents. Navigate, evaluate and create professional content on networking sites. Use online networking to create, maintain and learn from a personal learning network - AND their students. Know the district networking guidelines, follow netiquette, conform to ethical standards and interact appropriately with others, especially students, online. Understand copyright, security and privacy issues on social media sites and share these understandings with students and professional colleagues. Understand the importance of identity and reputation management using social media and help students understand the long-term impact of personal information shared online. Create and follow a personal learning plan to stay informed about developing trends, tools and applications of social media. Participate in the formulation of school and district policies and guidelines related to educational networking and social learning.

"A central goal of this report is to shift the focus of the conversation about the digital divide from questions of technological access to those of opportunities to participate and to develop the cultural competencies and social skills needed for full involvement."

It was once true that after the school day ended at 3:30, schools rarely, if ever, had any response to behaviors that occurred. However, now, everyone - policy makers, educators, and parents - needs to understand that education is 24/7 and any approach taken to mitigate and/or ultimately improve digital learning with students needs to start from that basic understanding of time and space. Efforts to empower must be community, parent and school-based. Read report, reflect and answer the following questions: What stage school do you think we are now? What stage school are we striving to become?

Interesting thoughts on collaboration, copyright, and web-based writing. Also, the links to "popular stories" all look interesting!