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The emphasis now is on how to use storytelling in a classroom situation, how to
create a lesson where students are using blogging in a classroom."

"It's important that they understand that they may bring a lot of technical
expertise, but that they have a lot to learn from the [other] teachers in
schools in terms of pedagogy and content," she says. Thompson also concedes that
higher ed has been guilty of paying too much attention to the devices
themselves. "We all did at first: 'If we just teach teachers how to use
technology, they'll figure out how to teach with it.' Although it was an
understandable approach, it really wasn't the approach we should be taking."

"In the state of Michigan, every high school student must have at least one
online class experience for graduation," Brady says. "What I say to my students
is, 'How can we have that as a high school requirement if we've never walked in
their shoes?' We have to take an online class to be in a better position to
train our students so they'll be ready for that online experience."