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One of the most common questions we get is, “But where do we find the time to use all this new technology?” To answer that question, we developed this infographic – A Day in the Life of a Connected Educator to show that using social media in your classroom and in your life can be integrated, easy, and fun.

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Back in 2004 I was "lucky" enough to be assigned to a classroom in the renovated basement of an ancient building that had one been used as a hospital during the Civil War. The room was set-up horribly for the seminar that I was teaching on "The Future of Education.

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Yesterday at the Center for Civic Media, our lunch guest was S. Craig Watkins, a professor at UT Austin working on a variety of projects under the heading of “Connected Learning”.  In his blog post about the idea, Dr. Watkins defines this as:

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I know it’s nothing new any more. If you’re reading this blog you are probably part of a community of connected educators. We read blogs. We write blogs. We share resources and ideas via Twitter. We meet at online conferences. We collaborate via Googledocs and wikis and Skype.

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For all of the school administrators and/or school policy makers who are hell bent on making sure that resources that can assist in learning remain off the table in their schools,  you may need to add to the ever-expanding list of things to which you deny learners access if Google’s latest innovation (see video above) or anything like it hits the market.  Then again it really isn’t a matter of when these types of technological advances will become available, it’s really a matter of how soon.

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How can we help young people learn to express themselves with new technologies so they can be active participants in tomorrow’s Creative Society?

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If I was Alec Couros, Will Richardson, Vicki Davis, Steve Hargadon, or any of the thousands of K-12 educators that have been pushing for networked/connected learning for years (in Will’s case, more than a decade), I’d be fairly irritated to have been written out of the vision of connected learning that is now emerging from DML.

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Connected Learning: Reimagining the Experience of Education in the Information Age

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Over half of all devices at this year's CES, the world's largest consumer electronics trade show, were Internet connected. Nearly 60% of those were non-traditional computing devices such as TVs, cars, refrigerators and washing machines. Connected devices are proliferating throughout our homes and the world around us. Which means consumers are about to become a whole lot more connected to the world.

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Lesson Plan – Introducing Admin to 21st C Skills

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Knowing and growing the tribe: some amazing educators

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The common thread? Having a PLN supports teachers to take the plunge and start using educational technology in the classroom.

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The use of coaches to assist educators in becoming more accomplished and subsequently improving student achievement occurs frequently in face to face settings. To meet the needs of today’s connected educators, coaching should also move into online spaces. The Connected Coaching eCourse will prepare you to coach in online spaces, to leverage the affordances of technology for coaching. Through this 8-week eCourse you will explore:

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“Resources, links, and news on "Connected Learning"

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Are you this addicted to your gadgets and the Internet?  Which part of the infographic do you identify the most with?  Are you guilty of having an affair with your phone?  Let us know in the comments. Oh and if you want a bigger version of the infographic, just click on the one below.

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This page provides our visualizations of the communities based on the anonymized, aggregated call and SMS connections. Please let us know what you think in the comment section below. We are also looking forward to hearing from you about the geographic peculiarities.

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This infographic, created for Gigaom, utilizes data on the global use of the Internet, broadband and mobile phones. As you can see, our world is more connected than ever.

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Their arrival heralded a new age of communications and they played a major role in the explosion of the internet. We're talking, of course, about modems. Here we look back on the development of this remarkable device.

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