One

=Welcome to Week One=

During the course of this workshop, several staff members from TIE are going to share their "take aways" from the ISTE 2010 conference. This week will focus on the opening speaker, Jean-François Rischard, and Jeff Utecht. This week's take aways came from Kris Baldwin.

First, I would like you to go to the discussion board and introduce yourself. Then come back to this page and go through the readings and videos. There are six discussion questions posted. Please answer at least three of them and respond to some of your colleagues.

Jean-François Rischard
Read the article, and then watch these short video clips from Rischard where he talks about the need for a global focus based on the impact we are having on our environment:

A nice overview of his three key areas is located here

followed by an article that provides a more indepth summary of each of these key areas of need.

Who are we?
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Where have we failed?
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What forces are at play? (technology)
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Why would ISTE open with such a bleak focus on our future? Because we as educators have the power to promote the creativity and innovation, the critical thinking and problem solving, the 21st century skills that are desperately needed to find solutions to these problems before time runs out.

Jeff Utecht
One educator who has that global focus and is adept at engaging students in the web 2.0 tools available for promoting 21st century skills is Jeff Utecht. Watch this short presentation where he talks about communities of practice,

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then read more about how he uses blogs in the classroom here.