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In addition to the applications that students use, having the PDA teaches them responsibility, he said.
"Cell phones aren't going away. Mobile technology isn't going away," he said. "Right now, what we're telling kids is 'You go home and use whatever technology you want, but when you get to school, we're going to ask you to step back in time.' It doesn't make any sense," he said.
"Kids don't worry about small screen sizes or typing trouble. Kids today are the mobile generation and it's time we embraced this as a way to better educate our students."

"Students continue to be on the leading edge in terms of adopting, modifying and re-using digital content and technology tools to enrich both their personal and educational lives. The students in many ways are far ahead of their teachers and parents not only in the sophistication of their technology use, but in the adoption of emerging technologies for learning purposes," said Project Tomorrow CEO Julie Evans, in a statements released to coincide with the survey release. "It is in our nation's best interest that we support and facilitate student usage of technology for learning."

24 Jul 09

If this is really where we hope to get, and I think it should be, the required shifts in educator practice and school culture are significant, as are the implications for professional development.
It’s not just about if every student had a computer; it’s about if every teacher had a computer as well.
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- technology was just a natural part of the way we created and constructed and connected and learned,
- access to the sum of human knowledge we’re building online.

23 Jul 09

Schools must be transformed from platforms for instruction to platforms for learning, from bureaucracies bent on control to learning organizations aimed at encouraging disciplined inquiry and creativity.
changes are disruptive in inflexible social systems.
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- in the context of citizenship in a democracy as well as a moral imperative that we create citizens who “have discovered how to learn independent of teachers and schools.”
- Americans have more to fear from the prospect that the IT revolution will so overwhelm citizens with competing facts and opinions that they will give up their freedom in order to gain some degree of certainty than they have to fear from economic competition around the world. Leaders should be far more concerned that Americans will cease to know enough to preserve freedom and value liberty, equity, and excellence than they are with how well American students compare on international tests.
- authoritarian leaders and charlatans thrive in a world where ordinary citizens are overwhelmed with facts and competing opinions and lack the ideas and tools to discipline thier thinking without appealing to some authority figure for direction and support.
- much of that now is dependent on our “network literacy” in terms of building our own personal systems of filters and sources that are balanced and open.
- we need to see teachers as leaders and as learners, not just teachers.

22 Jul 09

“Here are the problems we face…Here’s how we could break this down into manageable bits” Instead of providing knowledge about the topic, be a resource for organizing how such knowledge will be produced. What you as a professor really have to offer is the ability to learn things, the knowledge of how to overcome failure on the way to solving a problem. Model this for them.

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