Starting a Great Adventure

First, congratulations on the great adventure you are setting out on. We live in a world that is as different from the one that I went to school for as my world was different from that of my great great grandfather. Things have changed that much, and much of that change has happened with what we read and write,

The vary nature of information has changed, in what it looks like, what we look at to view it, how we find it, where we go to find it, what we can do with it and how we communicate it. All of these shifts have resulted in an information landscape that is networked, digital and abundant, and each of these qualities effects what it means to be literate.

You and your students will be working in a new environment and inventing a new kind of education, one that ignores barriers and empowers accomplishment.

Online Handouts

• Cracking the Code of the 'Native' Learning Experience – http://goo.gl/agyqQ
• Backchannel Transcript — [link]

Some education hashtags:

• #EdChat – This hashtag is for tweets relating to an exciting collaborative conversation forum for educators via Twitter. Edchat discussions happen Tuesdays on Twitter.
• #ECETech(Chat) – Tweets for early childhood educators who are interested in learning more about technology integration.
• #EdTech – This hashtag is used by professionals across the field of education to share new tech tools.
• #iPadEd & #EdApps – These hashtags are for educators who are interested in learning about how to use iPads in the classroom, as well as useful apps.
• #1:1chat – discussions about 1:1 or one to the world initiatives.
• #mlearning – News and discussion about mobile learning.
• #ipaded – Conversations about iPads in education.
• #1:1 – about one to one and/or one to the world initiatives.

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