Pardon my downtime...while numerous new and noteworthy events have transpired since my last post (Congratulations, Alissa!), I've been remiss in keeping up. Anyone with an RSS feed likely thinks we've disappeared.
Intentional reference, RSS feed is. This is a term and concept I only recently discovered. While I consider myself passably competent in computer usage and technology, I'm also realizing that keeping up takes commitment and its worth it.
Why? Because it's their world.
By this, I mean that the world of ready digital access is the world that our students live in and act from. We help students a great deal when the web of meaning and values teachers desire to impart become, if not fully integrated, at least something more than tangentially related to their (digital) world. From social networking to user-driven content, blogging to virtual classrooms, learning in their world calls for their tools.
Toward this end, this week's school in-service for teachers will explore the necessary (and exciting, at times!) terrain of 'their world' in an effort to allow digital tools to enhance the meaning and values from 'our world' we are entrusted to teach.
Old wine, new wineskins.

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