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How Information Is Changing the Teaching and Learning Environment As part of the “connected generation” students are digital learners, but they typically must disconnect at school. How do learning environments change as information grows faster and becomes more complex? Thursday: 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. and Friday: 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. A tremendous amount of conversation about 21st century learning has been happening across the school system, but what does it mean to be a 21st century learner and educator? This workspace was designed to support your district vision and as a resource to define 21st Century learning. Below are links to resources that have been created and can be used and edited to meet the needs of your district.

Mark_S_Hudson@dell.com K12 Education Senior Consultant ** Dell ** | Global Professional Learning Services

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Presentation Tools:
[|www.wordle.net] tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently [|www.tagxedo.com] turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes -- into a visually stunning tag cloud [|www.xtranormal.com] movie maker utilizing text-to-speech [] transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting. [|www.prezi.com] zooming presentation editor [] a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom.

Search Tools:
[|www.wolframalpha.com] Makes all systematic knowledge immediately computable [|www.bing.com] – visual search - makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. [|Google Goggles] lets you search Google using pictures from your camera phones. [|http://www.dipidy.com] Miscellaneous: [|www.thetrailermash.com] [|www.pageflakes.com] [] [|www.freeplaymusic.com] [|www.schoology.com] [|www.pbworks.com] [] [|http://www.p21.org] [] [|TIPC - r101910.pdf]

Apps (at your own risk):

 * TweetDeck is your personal real-time browser, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz and more. Download at []
 * Microsoft Mathematics Add-In for Word and OneNote - []

Articles & References:
[] Creative Commons licenses provide simple, standardized alternatives to the “all rights reserved” paradigm of traditional copyright. [|http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm#summary] [] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #114488; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #114488; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #114488; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #114488; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #114488; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] Speak Up 2008 National Data Findings. Speak Up is an annual research project of Project Tomorrow, a national education nonprofit organization (www.tomorrow.org) All rights reserved. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #114488; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #114488; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] [|www.tpack.org] and [|http://][|punya.educ.msu.edu/publications/journal_articles/mishra-koehler-tcr2006.pdf] [] The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) BOOK: Working on the Work: An Action Plan for Teachers, Principals, and Superintendents (Jossey Bass Education Series) [Paperback] Phillip C. Schlechty <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #114488; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #114488; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #114488; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]