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=Hello from this new wiki site.= I hope I'm doing this correctly! Jenne asked us to watch the video "Learning to Change, Changing to learn" and comment on what excited and scared us about the content. So here goes! I needed to watch it a couple times because it was packed with ideas from a variety of speakers. What excites me is that kids will be more engaged in their own learning and in collaborating with others with 21st century skills. I know from experience that collaboration can result in a richer, more meaningful product...if you are working with people who have good collaboration skills and are willing to participate and are not just along for the ride. I find the 21st century literacies exciting: finding information, validating it, leveraging it, synthesizing it, communicating it, collaborating with it and problem solving. These are mainly higher level thinking skills that go far beyond the more traditional skills of memorizing facts and regurgitating information. I like the idea that students will be more in charge of their own learning. I like the way there are many places to learn, not just in the classroom. What scares me is that I need to feel more comfortable with technologies (like Wikis!) and for me it's just not intuitive! Every new technology takes me a while to learn and I can get frustrated at the amount of time it takes to figure out how to navigate it. But that's do-able and I'm sure the more I explore new technologies the more comfortable it gets. I have some concerns with some of the statements made in the video. One of the people said that kids have a more stimulating and rich environment outside of school as they text and facebook each other. Do you agree that kids are texting and facebooking about deep and meaningful topics?? Or is it just everyday "I just ate a hot dog" kind of stuff?! It may be stimulating but rich??? Not so sure. Also, the video ended with the quote "this is the death of education and the dawn of learning". What exactly does that mean do you think? Was there no learning in the past education systems? What is definition of learning anyway?

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