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computers can support learners, open doors to a world of possibilities and learning opportunities and global thinking. They can provide a chance for every child to learn their own way and construct their own knowledge. They can facilitate conversations with other people and other children around the world. They can knock down the isolation of a classroom's four walls and invite in the voices, experience and passion of the entire planet.

EduCon 2.1 is both a conversation and a conference. And it is not a technology conference. It is an education conference. It is, hopefully, an innovation conference where we can come together, both in person and virtually, to discuss the future of schools. Every session will be an opportunity to discuss and debate ideas -- from the very practical to the big dreams.

Need to develop a new pedagogical dna for schooling in todays world in order to break from the past

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New Imagery for Schools and Schooling: Challenging, Creating, and Connecting A conference to explore the new potentials in education practice.

DOME Foundation Mission: To broaden awareness of and to increase participation in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines by underrepresented populations to meet the needs of a globally competitive workforce.

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The thoughtful/reflective effort it took to write this has made this one of the most powerful things I've done for professional development as a teacher.

George Siemens paper Learning and Knowing in Networks: Changing roles for Educators and Designers

So let's take a look at some real world social media policies and guidelines as used by companies. Zappos does a great job of summing it up in seven words, but the detail is also important and there are some fine suggestions here..

3 applications for new twitter who change social web : hoverme , qwerly and lazyscope

This morning President Obama gave what I would call his 'We're-Going-to-the-Moon' speech at the 146th Annual Meeting of National Academy of the Sciences. Earlier today I wrote a post, Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity for Our Children, on a comment by Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan about the need to challenge the educational status quo. After listening to President Obama's speech, I realized it was a Part 2 to my earlier post so I retitled the post 'We're-Going-to-the-Moon:' Part 1 and titled this post Part 2. Please listen to the entire speech and read the full text, but here I quote the President's comments on STEM education.

This wiki is dedicated to the integration of cellular technology into the classroom curriculum: Cell Phones (CP), Short Message Services (SMS), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and Direct Inward Dialing (DID). It was created for the ISTE National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) 2009, in Washington, D.C. Please contact me if you have something I should share. Mail to: wardc@lake.k12.fl.us

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Metanomics® explores the serious uses of virtual worlds. We are a passionate community with an interest in understanding the evolving use of virtual world technologies.

In the future, reading and writing will be a social activity, the hierarchy between authors and readers will disappear,

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Top 10 Big #eLearning eNews for #backtoschool 2012 : GlogsterEDU , EdFuture, CLASS2GO , Stanford University, Google Course Builder , GTA , Google Teachers Accademy, Wiziq Academic , TedEd , TreeHouse, Dell , Dell Social Inovation , StudyHall .Follow https://twitter.com/web20education

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