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You can create a free Jeopardy game and be playing within minutes using the simple Flash Jeopardy Generator. It is a simple form from which you can enter up to 25 questions, along with the point values for each question. The form will then generate a text file that can be downloaded to play with the Jeopardy Player, or you can follow the link provided to play your game online. Users who have designed a Jeopardy game using the PowerPoint template floating around the web will find that the process of creating a game for the Flash version is much quicker and easier than the tediousness of changing dozens of individual PowerPoint slides.

Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. DIF involves knowing how digital information is different from print information; having the skills to use specialized tools for finding digital information; and developing the dispositions needed in the digital information environment. As teachers and librarians develop these skills and teach them to students, students will become better equipped to achieve their information needs.

An expert on children and computing, Dr. Seymour Papert is a mathematician and one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence. He is a distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of major books on children and learning. Here he describes learning environments in which children collaborate around meaningful projects and powerful ideas.

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