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You know, it becomes really advantageous for the teacher to figure it out because the kids really get into it, it makes their projects better, and it helps us all learn about these issues of copyright

So we’re trying to get the kids to understand that these are online communities where you take stuff, but it’s also really good to contribute content

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their inability to discriminate between different sources.

It is worth noting that those of us in the educational technology space draw on terms and concepts straddling numerous disciplines – psychology, learning theory, technology, and social trends (Freire/Illich-type power issues with a smattering of democracy and undertone of power and opression thrown in) – each generally viewed to be fairly incomprehensible, but when carefully blended, is absolutely alien to the daily thinking habits of most people.

Our experience confirms the tremendous values of connecting with others, forming networks, sharing and reusing content, collaborating, building together, fostering a crescendo dialogue threatening at any moment to break from our secluded networks into the broader consciousness of society.

he read/write web threatens a significant change in how we interact with information and each other.

The read/write web threatens a significant change in how we interact with information and each other. Mobile devices allow students to ignore the restrictions of network administrators. As educators, we still have a stronghold on accreditation. But what happens if accreditation is no longer the requirement of learners? What happens if the capacity to perform a task (such as programming with Ruby on Rails) is more about reputation within a field than a piece of paper provided by an institution.

In finer point,

it combines the one-way reach of broadcast with the two-way reciprocity of a

mid-cast. Indeed, its user can at once be a receiver and sender of

"broadcast"-a confusing property, but mind-stretching!

because right now in town people are thinking computers are all about, well, Facebook and on-line poker and stuff

I’d like to raise the awareness of the need of it—because right now in town people are thinking computers are all about, well, Facebook and on-line poker and stuff—to raise the awareness that computers can do a lot more to help you out,

Mr. Regier sees things evolving fairly rapidly, accelerated by the increasing use of social networking technology. More and more, students will help and teach each other, he said. For example, it will be assumed that college students know the basics of calculus, and the classroom time will focus on applying the math to real-world problems — perhaps in exploring the physics of climate change or modeling trends in stock prices, he said.