http://www.ascilite.org.au/ conferences/auckland02/proceedings/papers/key_reeves.pdf Storm Clouds on the Digital Education Horizon 1. Does this shift change the traditional aims of education in our society? 2. What skills will be necessary for success in the Knowledge Age? 3. What have we learned about learning that might help us gain these skills? 4. What does Knowledge Age learning really look like in practice? 5. How do we get there ...

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http://www.ncrel.org/tech/netc/ 2002/keynote.htm This is a transcript of a speech entitled No cliche left behind: Why Education Policy is NOT like the movies. In the beginning of the speech, the speaker seems against no child left behind, but then in the end, he seems to have softened his view. The speaker calls the policy, the action hero method of decision making. 🙂 I may have to ...

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http://www.arches.uga.edu/~bhummel/6200Project/ Within the framework of this project, the group attempts to address the following: What are the elements of Roger’s Diffusion of Innovations Theory? What stages do adopters pass through from knowledge of an innovation to adoption? What are some characteristics of adopters of innovations? What are some attributes of innovations which impact rate of diffusion? How does Diffusion of Innovations Theory apply to adoption ...

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My group is doing a WebQuest on butterflies, esp. building a butterfly garden.

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http://it.coe.uga.edu/~treeves/AERA99Web.pdf A Model to Guide the Integration of the WWW as a Cognitive Tool in K-12 Education by Tom Reeves Unfortunately, I had a very hard time accessing and printing this document. I’m not sure the fonts were properly embedded into the pdf as it came out all weird. I even printed this one out and had the same results. I will try again later.

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