5. Why use Wikis in the Classroom? <> Wiki-Classroom - Easy to Use, FREE - Slow connections - Allows teacher monitoring - Creates a student-centric learning environment **Intellectual Creativity!- Life Long Learners!
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7. Professional Development The only thing we have to fear is fear itself… - FDR, 1933 <> PD - Learn the basics - Give it a try by doing a pilot project with a small group of kids or adults - Learn from the kids who will learn it much faster than you do… Beg for help from them .
9. Do not confine your children to your own learning…for they were born in another time. – Hebrew Proverb
Editor's Notes
Thank you Joselyn Todd, Joselyn, 6-12 private school, Cary Academy off of Harrison Ave. in Cary ( 9 years ) I come from a family of teachers where my mother and father have a combined 70 years of public school teaching experience in special education and the sciences. Taught at all levels- but have hit my stride with MS students most think I am crazy for loving to teach them Never before felt so excited about the possibilities that exit in teaching- largely due to Web 2.0 technologies and the same time, I have never felt so certain we have a growing crisis at all levels of education as we struggle to prepare our students for a future filled with unbelievable change. At any rate, I am honored to be speaking here this afternoon as I know so many of you are wonderful teachers and administrators with much more experience than myself.
