I got this tweet on my phone today about a site called Student 2.0. Since my own site is called Teacher 2.0, I was intrigued. Got back to the hotel and decided to check it out. Looks like a group of students from all over the world (Hawaii, Korea, NYC, New England, Washington State, etc…) [...]

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About a month ago I got an email asking me if I was interested in heading to Claremont University outside of Ontario, CA for a conference on facilitating learning communities in higher education. I didn’t know where that university was, but the email said it was all expenses paid. I liked that. It also fell [...]

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Liz B. Davis outlined the following ways to prepare our school students for the 21st century here. Follow this link.

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I have a new post over here on online communication in the 21st century. Check it out.

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Work showed this video in an in-service, and I am eager to really move forward with 21st century education, but how do we drag along all the conservative, old-school techophobes?

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We always make the kids put away phones, ipods, etc… but should we? Today in school the kids were studying for the rhetorical schemes quiz, and most had printed pages from Google docs where we had the definitions saved, and some had nothing, but this one kid was sitting in the back of the room [...]

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The other evening I participated in a monthly Cyber Salon, which is a group of like minded technophiles who teach in secondary schools and higher education. This meeting held up north included Alan, Shelley, Biray, Alisa and me. I walked into this swanky sports grill after 5pm on a Friday to find these four with [...]

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