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The education futurists see the development of Web 2.0 as the final death knell of the 20th century learning model. The proliferation of open source learning tools, social media technology, mobile learning tools, and the ability of educators to cheaply and effectively construct rich, complex, individualized learning experiences for students is bound to revolutionize education.

In some ways, integrating technology with high school and college curriculum may seem like a simple task, but any experienced educator will tell you it’s definitely not. Shifting from a classroom mindset to an online mindset not only presents significant practical problems, but the transformation can be very difficult for teachers to conceptualize.

Although the potential benefits online learning presents are exciting, shifting the way educators think about teaching and learning is definitely not an easy task. Nevertheless, the more students and their parents demand highly individualized and inexpensive curriculum, educators will be forced to change the way they deliver instruction. The market forces that are shaping today’s schools will, at the most fundamental level, disrupt the current educational model. The problem we face as educators is deciding which tools we should use and the best ways to use them. Finding a solution to this problems might require the sort of radical thinking the edupunks like to embrace.

Screenshots are used for different purposes. As a blogger, I use screenshots almost evreryday to illustrate posts I publish here in educational technology and Mobile learning. As a teacher, I need screenshots to share with my students especially when it comes to explaining a process or a concept.There are actually several free sreenshot taking tools that you can find online and most of which come in as handy extensions for Chrome or Firefox. Windows and Mac have also their built-in softwares for users to easily grab a snapshot of their screens.However, if you want to explore some more free elaborate and awesome tools for screenshot taking then I try out some from the lis

Schoenfeld has said that, ‘Groups are not just a convenient way to accumulate the individual knowledge of their members. They give rise synergistically to insights and solutions that would not come about without them.’

Encourage the philosophy in the classroom that “deep thinking is a highly valued activity.”

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