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My raw notes on the BLC presentation I just attended remotely.Everything New is Old AgainLiving and Teaching in Accelerating TimesPresenters:Darren Kuropatwa Clarence Fisherhttp://adifference.blogspot.com/http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/

How does information come into your classroom? Who controls it? Who gets to find it and mandate it for use?

A lot of the work I've done this year focuses on getting quality information from global sources into my classroom and for my students to use on a daily basis.

RSS is your friend.

I think that the technology in projects like this is amazing, but it is meant to help us see beyond our current ideas of what technology is and can be. I think we need a new term that isn't so tied up with corporations and politics and which concentrates more on learning.

The word edtech concentrates too much on the technology and the teaching. I think we need something new. I'm thinking "edinfo" (education for an information based society) or "ednet" (education for a networked society) or even "create-ed" (education concentrating on creativity).

Five Rules for Tackling Cyber Troubles There are a lot of scary things going on in the cyber world these days. I've read more articles in the past several weeks then I've seen in a long time:

RSS is your friend.

How does information come into your classroom? Who controls it? Who gets to find it and mandate it for use? A lot of the work I've done this year focuses on getting quality information from global sources into my classroom and for my students to use on a daily basis.