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
CURRICULUM
Beyond Technology to the New Literacy
Developing an Integrated Model
INFORMATION FLUENCY
Becoming InfoSavvy and NetSavvy
TECHNOLOGY PLANNING
CREATING POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS
Bringing Down the House: Creating Powerful Presentations
Public Speaking w/o PowerPoint