Downloadable Handouts


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VISION


21st Century Fluency Skills: Attributes of Digital Learners (NEW February, 2008 - 12 pages)


21st Century Fluency Audit Tool (NEW February, 2008 - 12 pages - 10 pages)


New High Schools: Strategies That Work For Teaching & Learning Using Technology (NEW June, 2008)


Digital Diet (TEMPORARY VERSION May, 2008 )


Understanding Digital Kids (UPDATED July 27, 2008 - 83 pages - bibliography still to be updated)


Closing the Digital Divide: 7 Things Education & Educators Need to Do (NEW May, 2008 - 30 pages)

  

Living on the Future Edge (updated February, 2008 - 80 pages)


Windows on the Future (updated February, 2008 - 210 pages)


Living on the Future Edge brief (NEW June 16, 2007 - 5 pages)

 

Literacy Isn’t Enough (NEW February, 2008 -1st draft still rough - 32 pages)


New Schools (updated June 23, 2006 - 37 pages)

 

Leading From the Future (updated June 24, 2006 - 13 pages)


From Gutenberg to Gates to Google and Beyond (partially updated May, 2008 - 50 pages)


New Visions For Teaching, Learning & Assessment (updated February, 2008 - 52 pages)

 

TTWWADI (That’s The Way We’ve Always Done It) (updated February, 2008 - 15 pages)

 

New Horizons (updated May 17, 2005 - 17 pages)

 

Facing the Future (updated May 17, 2005 - 26 pages)

 

Education at the Crossroads (updated May 17, 2006 - 10 pages)

 

Dancing on Quicksand (updated May 2005 - 13 pages)

 

The Challenge of Change (updated May 2006 - 13 pages)

   

Change is Hard, You Go First (updated June 2006 - 26 pages)


The New Exploding Whale video (NEW February, 2008)

 

 

THE COMMUNICATIONS AGE


Foundations of the Future

 

Nothing But Net

 

Welcome to the Wired World

 

 

CURRICULUM


Beyond Technology to the New Literacy

 

Developing an Integrated Model

 

Shifting Gears

 

 

INFORMATION FLUENCY


Becoming InfoSavvy and NetSavvy

 

NetSavvy Framework

 

Born to be Wired

 

 

TECHNOLOGY PLANNING


Getting it Right

  

Sample Educational Audit

 

 

CREATING POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS


Bringing Down the House: Creating Powerful Presentations

 

Public Speaking w/o PowerPoint



 

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