The document poses a series of questions about how education could change if classroom walls became permeable, literacies expanded to include new online tools, and learning spaces combined physical and digital components. It asks how educators can help students communicate more effectively, what barriers may exist to these changes, and how attending the conference might help attendees rethink how they teach and how students learn.

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2. What happens when classroom walls become permeable?

3. What happens when our concept of what it means to be well-educated is challenged? Are there new literacies? What do you think?

4. What happens when we can fly anywhere in the world in and never leave our classroom?

5. What happens when we leverage the enormous amount of media available online to create new types of learning experiences?

6. How can we help students communicate their ideas in more effective ways?

7. What happens when we rethink the concept of learning space, and add a digital component? What does that look like?

8. What barriers do you experience? How will you think and extend beyond your barriers?

9. And how will this conference experience improve how we think, how we teach, and how they learn?

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