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Facebook page for UNI Instructional Technology (COE) - useful links and updates from the IT world 

Our blog posts, articles, presentations, workshops, and consulting focus on helping educators weave curriculum, pedagogy, and technology into engaging and rigorous learning.

"There's been an on-going industrial-institutional complex at play here for at least the past 30 years that has ensured the continued irrelevance of technology to learning"

I was able to adapt to my situation when the Internet went down, because I knew what I wanted to do, how it could be done, and what I could use to get there. I acted much like teachers do in classrooms every day.

Now that we're in the second decade of the new millennium, how is digital access changing, and what are the implications for schools? 

College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter their question. Information literacy is essential for lifelong learning and empowers individuals and societies. Our educational system should expose students to information literacy from elementary school through postsecondary education so that it is a habit of mind they can call upon throughout their lives. Collaborative efforts between faculty, librarians, technology professionals, and others can develop students who graduate with information literacy competency.

A gentle reminder to power down at the end of the day

We make reading (and writing) cool! Blog by reading interventionist from Waterloo school

HOw can we turn kids from being just media consumers to the curators and creators

Teaching kids to be 'digital citizens' (not just 'digital natives')

What would you rather get for your classroom, an iPad 2 and Apple TV or an Interactive Whiteboard?