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“It” is a transformed reality where access to new tools, abundant content, and vast networks simultaneously

no one – no one – really understands the full implications of what these devices and spaces have on the future of our children. So what are our *obligations* in all of this as administrators, parents, and educators?

Now more than ever, students need to understand the basics of social media and how it can affect their future both negatively and positively. A strong or weak social media presence now affects both college admissions and the workforce.

Schools that utilize educational technology effectively do so in a strategic way.  A strategic methodology promotes sustainability, or long term use, where a deep understanding of how the technology supports learning can develop, further leading to even more effective application.

However, it is important to understand the difference between “moving” a document to a folder and “adding” a document to a folder:

As with learning to read, swim or play good football children will be much more effective social networkers with support, guidance and help than without

We need to educate young people to understand that it is wrong to write anything on a social networking site which you wouldn’t say to someone’s face

Second, Twitter and Facebook are, as has been well publicised, a groomer’s dream.

Understand that your district has BYOD in place. All schools do. It’s whether you choose to embrace the learning tool that makes the difference. Encourage the device. Don’t outlaw the learning tool for students or staff.

Members of any profession need to communicate and collaborate with colleagues to understand and improve their skills. Face-to-face collaboration is personal, but is limited by boundaries of time and space. Participants must have a common time and place for collaboration. Digital collaboration has no bounds of time or space, and collaboration can take place anytime with anyone, anywhere.

Technology is not a generational thing, it is a learning thing. It may be outside many educators’ comfort zones, but comfort zones are the biggest obstacles to education reform.

The time has come for educators to accept that they no longer have a choice about technology. To maintain relevance as educators, they need to employ relevant technology learning tools for education, connect and collaborate with other professionals to improve their skills and knowledge within their profession, and use PLNs to improve their profession and hold off the barbarian politicians and business people banging down the gates of education

The key to success is “formative assessment,” Brovold said, which means teachers first determine which students understood the material, which students need more practice, and which didn’t understand at all.

Working towards a framework to understand the skills, competencies and literacies necessary to be a Webmaker.

As much as some people may yearn for the simpler times of the past, life will continue to move forward as the natural order of society requires.

If we do not take time to understand new information and how it interacts with what we do, we, as a profession, may go the way of typewriters, photographic film, super 8 film, 8 track cassettes, landline telephones, or block-ice refrigeration.

Staying up-to-date, relevant, on information in your own profession is a moral imperative. We can’t expect what we learned as college students to carry us through a 30 or 40-year career.

Technology is a benefit to us all in so many ways. We’re connected, informed, and entertained like never before. Part of experiencing these benefits should be recognizing when technology becomes “too much” at one time. That’s when we need to understand the importance of taking a tech break.

What If School Was More Like Twitter?

bulk of the information exchange available on Twitter for instance comes in the form of links, or URL’s, which are internet addresses to pages of information.

Twitter offers us is the ability to respond to ideas and have a general discussion about those responses.

Call it the “learning paradox”: the more you struggle and even fail while you’re trying to master new information, the better you’re likely to recall and apply that information later.

second group was directed to solve the same problems by collaborating with one another, absent any prompts from their instructor.

the second group “significantly outperformed” the first.

Teaching students good learning strategies would ensure that they know how to acquire new knowledge

Students who use appropriate strategies to understand and remember what they read, such as underlining important parts of the texts or discussing what they read with other people, perform at least 73 points higher in the PISA assessment—that is, one full proficiency level or nearly two full school years

Students can assess their own awareness by asking themselves which of the following learning strategies they regularly use (the response to each item is ideally “yes”):

Given the enormous impact that technology has had on nearly every other aspect of our society, how can that be?

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.

our focus should primarily be to design new classroom models that take advantage of what these tools can do.