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At the k12 Online Conference, James Folkstad, a professor at Colorado State University desribes the systematic change in our environment today.  He states that this ‘avalanche of change’ in technology requires us to have the necessary survival skills.  These survival skills are based on collaboration and collective action. We survive by decentralizing our actions, being [...]

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Alan Levine talked about cool tools used in education. He, as well as Clarence, talks about wikki, blogging, tagging, and sharing.  By using technology collaboration tools, the kids using them benefit in many ways by sharing files, pictures, stories, and thoughts.
Technologies talked about that I didn’t know much of was Wikki.  Wikki seems like the [...]

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Classroom 2.0 is about meeting education head-on.  It helps teachers figure out what needs to be done in order for students to be prepared for the world.  Fisher states that we need to change the way we teach.  Memorization does not work any more.  Tools that promote colaboration and make it easy to connect to [...]

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http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/itl/about.html
ITL or Instructional Technology Lab is a free technology created to help enhance teaching and learning for both traditional on-campus courses and distance education.
The ITL is designed for use by faculty and computer support staff to develop or evaluate the integration of computer technology in the curriculum. The ITL also serves as a test bed [...]

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 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/2005/12/19/pentop_computing_is_more_than_a_kids/
Computer pens run on one 1.5 V AAA battery, have a remarkable ability to morph into a number of forms including a calculator, notepad, scheduler, keyboard with rhythm section and drums, journal, math and social studies teacher and Spanish dictionary. You tell it what to do by drawing or writing on a piece of special paper called [...]

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