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    • I'll take a pass on the online stuff until the schools develop their own in-house systems where the children can operate out of sight of the wider public.
    • What happened to text books, paper and pencil? Why must we have kids on the internet? I think this invites problems.
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    Tina Joyner

    Students discovering online collaboration

    By
    Kristen
    Alloway/The Star-Ledger


    November 07, 2009, 11:07PM

    Jennifer Brown/The Star-LedgerTeachers
    are increasingly using blogs, Twitter, wikis, podcasting, video conferences with
    students including Isabel Livingston, 11. The class of 6th graders from Sparta
    Middle School work on their blogs and glogs during their Connections
    class.First-grader Thomas Tsangaropoulos stands before a
    laptop during his Spanish class at Lake Parsippany School, smiles broadly into
    its tiny webcam and waves.

    "Hola," he says to the image of a young girl appearing on the computer and on
    a large screen in the front of the Parsippany classroom. "Me llamo Thomas."

    Across town, first-grader Mariah Colon peers into a laptop at Troy Hills
    School and waves.

    "Hola. Buenos días," she says.

    Remember when technology in schools meant computer labs and internet
    connections? New Jersey teachers and students are slowly but increasingly using
    the tools of Web 2.0 — the so-called second generation of the web that includes
    creative, collaborative, shared content.

    Students are writing on wiki pages, blogging about their classroom
    activities, recording audio files for band practice, videoconferencing with
    people around the globe and chatting online about literature.

    For a generation that has embraced a joystick and a mouse since they were
    toddlers, these technologies can help them learn how to be creative, how to
    communicate and how to work together, said Lisa Thumann, a senior specialist in
    technology education at Rutgers University’s Center for Mathematics, Science and
    Computer Education.

    "This is what our students are going to see when they get to college, ...
    when they enter the work force," Thumann said. "Our ultimate goal is to prepare
    them for the real world."

    Many educators say digital technology engages students, shows how what they
    are studying is relevant to the world around them and helps them retain what
    they have lear

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    Tony Vincent

    Article in the New Jersey Real-Time News - - NJ.com

    web2.0 article newspaper

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    Brian Verlinde

    "tools of Web 2.0 — the so-called second generation of the web that includes creative, collaborative, shared content."

    collaboration web2.0 technology wikis twitter

    • tools of Web 2.0 — the so-called second generation of the web that includes creative, collaborative, shared content.
    • A survey of 1,200 school administrators nationwide by the Consortium for School Networking found the number one problem with students using Web 2.0 tools is "wasting time and distractions."
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    • First-grader Thomas Tsangaropoulos stands before a laptop during his Spanish class at Lake Parsippany School, smiles broadly into its tiny webcam and waves.


      "Hola," he says to the image of a young girl appearing on the computer and on a large screen in the front of the Parsippany classroom. "Me llamo Thomas."


      Across town, first-grader Mariah Colon peers into a laptop at Troy Hills School and waves.


      "Hola. Buenos días," she says.

    • Remember when technology in schools meant computer labs and internet connections?
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    Chris Dede

    web 2.0 is a means of fostering collaboration skills

    web 2.0 classroom online collaboration

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