Wow! I can't believe that it has been 20 days since my last blog! There is another blog out there that may give you some great ideas for web 2.0 tools to use. Check it out at http://icats30daychallenge.blogspot.com/. Our iCATS team has put together 30 tools for you to explore. If you are an EVSC employee, join in the challenge for a chance to win prizes. If not, that's okay. You can participate and have fun learning.
I watched a video last week of a speech by Heidi Hayes Jacobs. If you don't know the name, look her up. She made some pretty amazing points during the speech, but her initial question is what keeps popping up in my mind. "What year are we preparing our students for?" She said that the majority of schools today are preparing their students for the year 1991. That's probably a pretty sad, but true, fact. We graduate from high school and spend a lot of time trying to learn all of the technology and skills needed to compete in the world that we find ourselves in. I like to hope that our school corporation is preparing our students for a year far ahead of 1991. Bringing the netbooks in starts to open the doors to a whole new world. It's what we do with them from here that matters.
We have this great tool. What are we doing with it? How is it being used in your classrooms? Teachers, students? How has the netbook changed your learning/teaching? Comment and let me know!!!
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