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"Technological networks have transformed prominent businesses sectors: music, television, financial, manufacturing. Social networks, driven by technological networks, have similarly transformed communication, news, and personal interactions. Education sits at the social/technological nexus of change - primed for dramatic transformative change."

I'm still thinking about that UCLA research saying "technology in the classroom damages literacy and critical thinking." I'm still thinking it's behind the times, in its framing of technology as "video games and TV," and its complete omission of the Web and the social media/Web 2.0 explosion over the last five years or so.

This video shows how our children interact with technology - and have come to expect that kind of interaction! It's no less natural to them to use their technology than it is for us to pick up a pen to write.

This easy-to-follow guide can help students and teachers ' even the most technology-resistant ' learn to solve problems from sources like Internet sites, news groups, chat rooms, e-mail, and other Internet resources. Topics include: Creating your own lesson plans using sample lesson planners Applying frameworks for grade-level objectives and skills Dealing with information-technology overload Solving any information challenge with six critical steps Helping students harness the web with simple tips An important resource for today's classroom, Net Savvy can help educators become leaders rather than followers in the new high-tech, high-speed, digital era.

great article about how learning and school has or has not changed and what needs to be transformed to prepare for today and the future to meet the needs of students and teachers

"The problem is not that schools will refuse to adopt the new media/technology. My greater fear is that they will adopt it. "

"It's been about 10 years since Maine implemented its initiative, and while at least 33 states had experimented with one-to-one computing projects by 2007 , none have reached the scope of Maine's project. As jobs and life increasingly involve computers, it's clear that in order to remain relevant to students, schools will need to adopt more technology. Here are six lessons about doing so successfully, taken from Maine's initiative."

A one-year, ongoing, job-embedded professional development opportunity built around emerging social Web technologies that connects: 20 schools from around the state (or world) 5 educators (administrators/teachers) from each school 10-21st Century Fellows (Champions) selected from participating districts

Technology has resulted in a number of significant changes in the ways people communicate, learn and create. This slideshow highlights a number of trends that should lead to significant changes in classrooms around the world.

How should the district support the technology needs of the district?

What we've decided is that we will no longer use the web filter as a classroom management tool.

experienced this in a g.6/7 class; student created an assessment for a science-environmental unit consisting of short answer and multiple choice questions; results get emailed to teacher in a spreadsheet that calculates percentages, identifies (color) missed answers, etc.