Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach explores the importance of blending learning with digital literacy skills to ensure success for our most at-risk students. Come hear about ways of broadening your technology program's reach and effectiveness for a full range of students, including those who have the most to gain from successful implementations.

2. http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach [email_address] Skype: snbeach Web: http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com Blog: http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com Wiki: http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com

4. Life is Difficult for our Impoverished Youth How you teach, more than what you teach, matters with these kids.

5. “ When a new teacher comes to the school, I tell them, “If you went into teaching to make a difference, I want to welcome you. But with these kids, you wont make a difference: you will be the difference.” Greg Anderson W.T. Cooke Elementary School

6. iPods in Vending Machines Signs of the Times….

9. If at-risk students have a limited experience and knowledge-base from which to draw, will Web access to information help to fill in the gaps?

10. If you only have a student with you for a few days, weeks, or months is sequentially taught curriculum going to make sense?

11. Should we be teaching children or helping them learn?

12. Are you Ready for 21st Century Teaching and Learning? It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived! And schools who aren’t redefining themselves, risk becoming irrelevant in preparing students for the future.

13. You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet! Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0

14. Creativity Creativity is now as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status. If you're not prepared to be wrong then you will never come up with anything original. We don't grow into creativity we grow out of it, or rather, we get educated out of it.

18. Strategies that Work with Children of Poverty "Teachers can draw on technology applications to simulate real-world environments and create actual environments for experimentation, so that students can carry out authentic tasks as real workers would, explore new terrains, meet people of different cultures, and use a variety of tools to gather information and solve problems."

19. An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. New Delhi physicist Sugata Mitra has a radical proposal for bringing his country's next generation into the Info Age from a Businessweek Online Daily Briefing, March 2, 2000. Hole in the Wall Experiment Digital Divide, Web 2.0, and Homeless Children

20. Digital Divide Have Nots Haves Barbara Singleton, director of technology and curriculum at North Knox High School in Bicknell, Indiana.

21. The truth is that parents of children with technology access at home will ensure that their children have this information advantage. Who will ensure that the children of poverty are given an equal opportunity?

23. Last Generation