Cool Stuff

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Cool Stuff

• Library Thing
• Bookcrossing.com

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The Future Is Now
CBS News Rocketboom
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Two Views of the Present

• Two Stories
• The Projector
• The Document Camera

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21st Century Skills

• In action

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The Purpose of Education
Colonial Williamsburg Commercial
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Why We Need 21st Century Skills

• The Pizza Movie

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Tour the 21st Century Skills Website
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Why are we talking about technology at all?

• 11/9/89
• 8/9/95
• Work Flow Software
• Open-Sourcing
• Outsourcing
• Supply-Chaining
• Insourcing
• In-forming
• The Steroids (mobile, personal, digital, virtual)

• From Tom Friedman, The World is Flat, 2005
• What do these mean for education?

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Globalization 3.0 Skills

• Self-discipline (working without direct
  supervision)
• Be a little geeky
• Collaboration
• Global Perspective
• Speak Chinese
• Able to learn and relearn
• Flexible innovative

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When I Go To UVA
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Weblogs in Education
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The Flat World Outside

• Technology supports communication, information
  and data
• Blogs and Hurricane Katrina
• Wikis
• Satellite Imagery and Mapping
• What skills do I need to deal with all this
  information?

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Reflecting on Practice

• The Reading Workshop and blogging
• http//www.bloglines.com
• Login edtech2005_at_ivyrun.com
• Password edtech2005

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Exploring Wikipedia
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Wetlands Watchers
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Dissolved Oxygen and the Bay
http//www.chesapeakebay.net/lowdo2003.htm
http//www.chesapeakebay.net/status/wquality/inter
polator/do/gallery.htm
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Alliance for Chesapeake Bay
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Dealing With Data

• CIESE