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Educators need to embrace Web 2.0 technologies in schools, but they should be given adequate professional development to ensure they learn the proper ways to engage their students through digital media, said experts at a Sept. 21 Capitol Hill briefing.

The power point & other training materials from this webinar that was aired in May 2011 are available here for review.

This is a piece I wrote for my (shamefully neglected) Huffington Post blog after the Digital Age Teacher Preparation Council released its 2011 report on preparing PreK-3rd teachers.

Pamela Johnson told me about this.

This would be a good site to use with toddler/preschool caregiver training. It is an organized module introducing one to the power of internet and presenting a variety of technologies. It is written so indivduals can complete at comfortable pace.

I think it is great that some districts are getting this new technology out into classrooms, and particularly early childhood classrooms...but I am finding that there is often a piece missing--the professional development or training that shows teachers "what to do with this thing".