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slide show by Greg Schmill, Director of WELS Commission on Lutheran Schools on generations and how to connect witth them

Starting at 20:39 presentation on Bridging the Generations - Greg Schmill, Director of WELS Commission on Lutheran Schools. He examines each of the generation's needs and specifically how different uses of technology can assist in engaging Builders, Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials in our schools

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Some good strategies for working with online content presentation and management.  Check out the link to "Loop Hole Generation"  Interesting

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Great group novel study activity.  All planned out, and ready to go.  Here is a great way to integrate tech into literature.

I like reading marketing blogs because they focus on communicating and building support for new ideas--sounds a lot like technology integration and education in general. Consider this revised quote from the bookmarked blog post: "The reason social media doesn't matter is because, upon further review, it doesn't exist beyond a label. While all the categorizing, classifying and departmentalizing was going on, that which was called social media simply settled into the center of [learning] and [instructional] strategy and behavior. Everything that we called social media is irrelevant and mislabed - there's a new way of doing [teaching] and [learning] for sure, but it's a behavior and focus on [student] involvement that's become a new norm - and that's all there is to it. We don't need social media tools, social media plans, social media agencies, or social media departments, we need [instructional] strategies and [practices] that are informed by a terribly heightened [learner] expectation."

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It is interesting that the study states this true for adults, yet the picture was of a 9 year old. There is not a lot of data to support that the results of the study is true for most K-12. It is clear that it is generally unsuccessful for the unmotivated or those with limited reading skills. Many have pushed online ed for K-12 credit recovery and GEDs. It has not been successful with most of those students. Using blended models in K-12 has had more success.