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"Recently, I wrote a post regarding some ideas that I did not believe that would transform school culture. Although most agreed on two of the ideas that I shared, there was a large contingent of educators that argued regarding the "flip" and are very passionate about what it can do for the classroom (one even referred to me as a "nut" for even suggesting this!)."

""Friending", "favouriting", "IMing" and lost in a world of verbs that barely existed a decade ago, the learners of today are growing up in a time when the online social networking landscape is as comfortable to them as the playground of yore. In an exemplary new learning culture, some teachers are now incorporating these media into the classroom routine."

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