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Given the enormous impact that technology has had on nearly every other aspect of our society, how can that be?
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Today our collective vision for education is broader, our nation is more complex and diverse, and our technical capabilities are more powerful. But we continue to assume the factory-model classroom and its rigid bell schedules, credit requirements, age-based grade levels, and physical specifications when we talk about school reform.
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our focus should primarily be to design new classroom models that take advantage of what these tools can do.
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understanding what it is we want students to be able to do, the measures of success, the resources we have to work with, and our own sense of possibility.
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Different schools may take different approaches to combining these components
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The Information Age has facilitated a reinvention of nearly every industry except for education. It's time to unhinge ourselves from many of the assumptions that undergird how we deliver instruction and begin to design new models that are better able to leverage talent, time, and technology to best meet the unique needs of each student
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www.fluency21.com/blogpost.cfm citizen role teacher

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With the huge potential that Information and communication technology has to offer for teaching and learning also comes a matching potential for distraction, illicit and inappropriate activity, and poor judgement.
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The teacher holds a cornerstone role in the development of understanding, the appreciation of culture and diversity, and the formation of the moral and ethical basis that, like the cornerstone of a building, provides a strong and stable foundation for life in both the real and virtual world they co-inhabit.
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The most salient lessons are not learned by avoidance but by facing you action, its impact, and the consequences.
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All teachers are teachers of citizenship.
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The teacher is no longer just the master of their subject. They are much, much more. Their classroom is no longer defined by four walls and a blackboard, but stretches far beyond the physical boundaries of their school. We are global teachers, ethicists, and moralists. We are masters of our subject and students of the world.
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