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#1: Capture Everything

#2: Share Everything

#3: Open Everything

The current generation is never unconnected. They’re never losing touch with their friends. So we’re going back to a more normal place, historically. If you look at human history, the idea that you would drift through life, going from new relation to new relation, that’s very new. It’s just the 20th century.”

The original World Wide Web—the “Web 1.0” that emerged in the mid-1990s—vastly expanded access to information. The Open Educational Resources movement is an example of the impact that the Web 1.0 has had on education. But the Web 2.0, which has emerged in just the past few years, is sparking an even more far-reaching revolution. Tools such as blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging systems, mashups, and content-sharing sites are examples of a new user-centric information infrastructure that emphasizes participation (e.g., creating, re-mixing) over presentation, that encourages focused conversation and short briefs (often written in a less technical, public vernacular) rather than traditional publication, and that facilitates innovative explorations, experimentations, and purposeful tinkerings that often form the basis of a situated understanding emerging from action, not passivity.

Let’s make it an institutional priority to talk on an ongoing basis to any university researcher who can help us teach better.”

the leader has not set clear objectives or an agenda, and didn’t assign pre-meeting preparation tasks.

Whoever calls a meeting should be explicit about its objectives.

it is certain that every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones

Obama's inauguration is providing students with the option to experience, share and report on a collection of days that are destined to be recorded for a museum or archive.

they were required them write their thoughts and to create a one-minute YouTube video.

"If you are not connected with social media, chances are you wont win the election,

The LoTi Classroom Teacher represents a series of online courses designed for classroom educators, mentors, and building administrators to improve and refine the manner in which learning technologies are used to promote student engagement and achievement. The LoTi Classroom Teacher series explores the concepts of higher order thinking skills, differentiation, collaboration, and the use of technology to build effective communities of inquiry that help students develop 21st Century Skills as articulated by The Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

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