TCEA panel says Web 2.0 marks a complete shift from the old models of instruction ... and schools need to shift accordingly

A growing list- add some more

Very interesting look at how schools are restricting cellphone use in the classroom and The AU policies in place

Join us and fellow ELT professionals from around the world to discuss, reflect on and develop ideas. The 43rd IATEFL Conference will offer many opportunities for professional contact and development. The programme offers over 400 workshops, posters, talks, panel discussions and symposiums by international presenters from over 60 countries.

Push and pull learning vas formal and informal leanring

This page has great link summaries on web 2.0 in education

50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education

Are our ubiquitous interactions with computers radically changing our brains? The way we think? The way we see the world? Do digital natives think significantly differently to digital immigrants?

Very handy little tool very nicely descibed herer

The Websites listed here contain annotated links to resources that may be of interest to PD Professionals.

Alarmist article? Research evidence?

A great explantion of how a lecturer use Twitter as part of his course. It also gives us an overview of uses for twitter. Adding it to my Twitter motivation!

I have always marvelled at being able to follow real great minds realtime

Amid the rhetoric about the validity of concepts such as Digital Natives, GenY, Net Gen etc. an important issue is often overlooked - the need to address the development of skills and competencies required to work, learn and live online in the future. Too often this debate polarises people and disintegrates into arguments over skills vs integration etc.

Schools need to recognise that social networking is not just something kids are doing in MySpace or Facebook.

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"The biggest challenge we're presented with right now is how to take advantage of all the things the Internet has to offer without compromising our students' security or giving them access to things that are inappropriate,"

During his recent talk at the FETC 2009 conference in Orlando, FL, Benno opened with an interesting factoid: "Nine out of 10 students don't wear wristwatches," he said. "And the one that does doesn't use it as a timepiece; they use it to make a fashion statement." So why does that matter? It matters, said Benno, because it speaks to the fact that kids use technology in very different ways from what most of us are used to. From cell phones to iPods to a wide array of Web-based tools, "kids today are very fluid and open about their use of technology," Benno said. And if we are going to prepare them for a world that is constantly changing, he added, we need to rethink the ways we use and interact with these very same tools in the classroom.

This site is trying to write a collaborative e-book about twitter for the use of teachers