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What a difference a day makes

August 26th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Change, Web 2.0

This week our school began our first 1:1 iPad deployment to all juniors and seniors.  (Teachers had received their iPads during the summer.) It’s been so energizing to watch the transformation sweeping through the campus and watching changes that perhaps it was hard for us to really envision until we saw it happening. Suddenly, we [...]

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NetGen Teachers?

July 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Change, Net Gen

” . . . These employers know that for Net Geners, work should be fun.  Net Geners see no clear dividing line between the two . . . .”     Don Tapscott,  Grown Up Digital “Our research suggests that they expect to choose where and when they work; they use technology to escape traditional office space [...]

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Which way do we go?

April 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Change, libraries

This morning I saw a new website twittered– BooksFree.com –which allows you to “rent” books like you do Netflix videos. Demise of library services as we know them? Will people still want to go to a place if they can get the item via their mailbox? (of course, it’s not free, you have a monthly [...]

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Solar, wind, or electric: Harnessing the energy

January 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Change, Collaboration, Web 2.0

This morning and yesterday morning both I had the honor of attending the Flat Classroom Conference in Qatar and the Educon 2.1 conference in Philadelphia, both remotely.   What was funny was that I felt such a sense of community in the chat rooms talking to students and to other wired educators, sometimes more of a [...]

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