Fellow educators, if you haven’t seen this video yet, please take a few minutes to watch. A few of the facts are from Karl Fisch’s Did You Know? presentation, but this takes that conversation quite a bit farther.

Pay Attention!

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This is a great video about using technology tools in the classroom. I found it online at the T4-Jordan School District. I haven’t explored the whole site yet, but what I’ve seen so far looks like a pretty amazing pool of resources. Thanks very much to those in charge of organizing and sharing this site.

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I got to attend my first “webinar” this afternoon. Way cool! David Warlick presented about Flat Classrooms. Here’s the link to the slides David showed. The webinar is supposed to be archived, but I haven’t found that link yet. I hope that it will include David’s talk, video of the slides, and the text of the chat that was going on concurrently.
The basis for much of the discussion comes from Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat.

One interesting idea was that we no longer need to teach kids facts. We need to teach them how to manage the facts. We need to teach them how to process and use information, not just memorize facts of information. I need to teach them to learn how to learn, how to teach themselves, how to be life-long learners. How else can they thrive in the 21st century? How could I possibly think of myself as a responsible educator if I fail to teach my students that?

Okay, well obviously I need to add more to this, but it will have to be a bit later.

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These links to some of the presentations from the K12 Online Conference will give you more information about all the cool things you can do with Flickr.

Check out this one from Alan Levine. Click on the various “hot spots” to learn more about the cool things you can do (very easily, btw) with Flickr. Really fun!

This video by Jeff Utecht will show you even more–enjoy! Can I embed this puppy? Okay, well, that worked, but I had no controls over the video. It started playing automatically, and I couldn’t stop, pause, etc. so I removed the link to the .swf video file.

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This PowerPoint is from notes I took while watching Clarence Fisher’s presentation, Global Literacy, at the K12 Online Conference.

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