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21st Century learning and Technology Application

guide to learning about web 2.0 tools

The Net Generation has grown up with information technology. The aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students reflect the environment in which they were raised?one that is decidedly different from that which existed when faculty and administrators were growing up.

There's a long history of comics in the classroom, and the list of references at the end of this article is a great starting point for learning about this concept. While there's still resistance to this medium being used in education - whether by staff or students - there is also a growing movement to use every valuable tool available. Comics have some great uses in the classroom and in a variety of curricula. From pre-readers to high school students, from English to ESL to Science and Math, comics can help students analyze, synthesize and absorb content that may be more difficult when presented in only one way.

This teacher has some great 'hands-on' ideas. My favorites are highlighted.

I want to add this bookmark to my page because it is a learning network created to bring teachers ideas together. It is like youtube but instead it contains videos on lesson plans, teaching strategies, and current events all relevant to teachers.

This site was easy to navigate around.There were different tabs for both students and educators and it should how people can use google as a classroom tool and for professional development. i would be interested in learning more through this site

I feel that you can find reliable videos to show in class here.

A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning

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Excellent article concerning todays learners, big section on gaming

I've been getting this question a lot lately from administrators, parents, and taxpayers. The question isn't malicious, but rather comes from folks with a vested interest in making sure that our technology dollars directly benefit students. Does giving teachers laptops directly benefit students? For people who aren't actively teaching in a classroom, that's a hard question to answer. I don't think it's very hard for teachers to answer the question, though, especially at the secondary level. For most people entering the business world, there is no question that they will have a computer on their desk when they are hired. It might be a laptop, a desktop, a shared desktop facilitated with some sort of flextime arrangement, or even a computer allowance so that the new hire can buy a machine that makes them the most productive. However, it's not terribly likely that they'll just be handed a dry erase marker and a whiteboard, pointed towards a copy machine, and told to go for it.

Mark Wagner's project.