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"While LMS providers are making laudable efforts to incrementally make their tools more social, open, modular, and interoperable, they remain embedded in the classroom paradigm. The paradigm-not the technology-is the problem. We need to build, bootstrap, cobble together, implement, support, and leverage something that is much more open and loosely structured such that learners can connect with other learners (sometimes called teachers) and content as they engage in the authentic behaviors, activities and work of learning. Building a better, more feature-rich LMS won't close the 2-sigma gap. We need to utilize technology to better connect people, content, and learning communities to facilitate authentic, personal, individualized learning. What are we waiting for?"

Nice thought piece on how LMS's influence our teaching.

The tagline for this talk was - Much of the world has gone digital, so must learning at school. Creativity is vital, and good leadership matters. I listened to the first half this morning (the two parts are approximately 2 hours total) but appreciated what Wes Fryer had to say about introducing, using and sustaining technology in schools (including Social Media).

Here is Danah Boy's video on teenagers who are living and learning with social media

That was a great conference! Be sure to watch Christian Reanau's presentation too- very entertaining!

Interesting article being that we are learning how to integrate these tools.