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David Warlick – How must the school change to meet the requirements of today’s student? An interesting article – “Our Schools are Leaking” with some very thoughtful responses. I especially liked Stephen Downes’ response in which he challenges the author to ponder “the hard questions”, such as “What does a learning network look like?”
http://www.downes.ca/ – [...]

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“Internet in the Classroom”
Presented by Mike Hetherington – 6th Grade Teacher
Below you will find a listing of web addresses for each of the technologies discussed today in my presentation.  Please feel free to visit those sites that interest you and discover the myriad of technology choices available.
Web Pages
http://www.schoolnotes.com A good place to start when setting [...]

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Edublogs.org. is a free blogging site that I recently discovered thanks to a tip from educator Bob Sprangle in his “Bit by Bit” podcast. Feel free to post your thoughts and comments here on blogging, podcasting, teacher web sites or any other topic of interest to the Porter learning community. I am very excited about [...]

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