• Researchers found that informal writing is an integral part of youth culture: 85 percent of teens communicate through digital writing. Teenagers also overwhelmingly understand the importance of good writing: 86 percent of teens consider formal writing skills essential to future success.

• I can point out main points to help students focus on my targets. - Dena Budrecki on 2008-08-05

• Businesses, journalists, politicians and others are struggling to find new models that take full advantage of the opportunities these technologies and shifts afford (Richardson, 2006). 
  
  Conversely, schools have by and large been resistant to these shifts.
• These tools bring enormous leverage to teachers at relatively little cost — intellectual leverage, social leverage, media leverage.
• And at the core of this challenge is how well educators realize the potentials of these technologies for collaboration in their own professional and personal learn­ing practice
• What Adds Community Value

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• Teachers argue that they simply do not have the time to master the needed strategies. Attempts to gain the knowledge needed through workshops are often fragmented and unable to provide the ongoing daily guidance needed as teachers attempt to modernize their teaching methods.
• One form of professional development that has increased in popularity for improving teaching and learning is teacher led communities of practice. The idea behind communities of practice is that by encouraging teachers to share and exchange knowledge through collaborating around common objectives, using a common language, and developing a culture of professional learning, the desired educational improvements that communities of practice are intended to support can occur (Riel and Polin, 2004).

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• I can add comments to help guide my students learning. - Dena Budrecki on 2008-08-05

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• The Passionate Learner, Robert L. Fried talks about the  importance of that relationship and redefining curriculum.
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• “Curriculum for the passionate learner has everything to do with whether or  not the relationships are right, whether teachers and learners feel that  together they are shaping the learning that goes on.  This cooperation is  necessary even when teachers feel pressure from external forces. . . .”
• “We are so accustomed to thinking of curriculum as “a body of knowledge” or a “grouping of concepts and theories” or as “the scope and sequence of instructional material,” that it is easy to forget that such definitions, absent an active partnership between teacher and students, are little more than words on a page.”

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• Learning in the Digital Age 

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• It's time for education leaders to raise their heads above the daily grind and observe the new landscape that's emerging.
• It's time for education leaders to raise their heads above the daily grind and observe the new landscape that's emerging.
• It's time for education leaders to raise their heads above the daily grind and observe the new landscape that's emerging.
• Let's take a look at some of the features of our 21st century landscape that will be of utmost importance to those entrusted with the stewardship of our children's 21st century education.
• This phenomenon renders traditional catch-up methods, such as inservice training, essentially useless. We need more radical solutions. For example, students could learn algebra far more quickly and effectively if instruction were available in game format. Students would need to beat the game to pass the course. They would be invested and engaged in the process.
• Teachers must practice putting engagement before content when teaching. They need to laugh at their own digital immigrant accents, pay attention to how their students learn, and value and honor what their students know.
• ecause common sense tells us that we will never have enough truly great teachers to engage these students in the old ways—through compelling lectures from those rare, charismatic teachers, for example—we must engage them in the 21st century way: electronically.
• Educating or evaluating students without these tools makes no more sense to them than educating or evaluating a plumber without his or her wrench.
• Henry Kelly, president of the Federation of American Scientists, “the cookies on my daughter's computer know more about her interests than her teachers do.” It helps even less that a great many of our teachers and administrators have no idea what a cookie or a blog or a wiki even is.

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• This article has great resource links to prensky and jukes - also great charts and graphs comparing teachers and students - Dena Budrecki on 2009-03-17

• “Teens usually have a ‘full-time intimate community’ with whom they communicate in an always-on mode via mobile phones and instant messaging,” the study said.

• Big Screen, Small Screen - A Modern Paradox
• Paradoxically, this is the age of the BIG screen and the small screen, and we can use both in our classrooms.

• This article discusses the integration of ipods into the classroom - Dena Budrecki on 2009-03-17

• Talks about how teachers classrooms need to change - Dena Budrecki on 2009-03-17