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 * To build for the future we need to know what is different now ... what is the new information landscape into which our schools have been thrust**
 * How do you find the information you need... how will you extend your learning from your experience after this conference is over?**
 * Do you have a Personal Learning Network (PLN )...does it move outside your geographic center and your comfort zone? ( See** [|**iGoogle**] **page for a list of Blogs to get you started)**


 * Lots of information out there...Here is the tip of the iceberg... what have you explored what will you explore?**

[|Essential Understandings for 21st Century Literacy]
 * Literacy**

[|Chalkdust on Literacy]

[|Contemporary Literacy] The explosive growth of technology in every aspect of society offers us a unique opportunity to engage our citizens in economic and civic life. Digital technologies have given us new and better ways to teach and learn. They have made us more efficient at work. And they are enabling us to participate more directly in the governance of our lives.... In return, they demand that we continually acquire and develop new knowledge and skills. Information and communication technologies are raising the bar on the competencies needed to succeed in the 21st century, and they are compelling us to revisit many of our assumptions and beliefs.[|1]

[|NCTE Executive Committe] - On Literacy

[|Is it okay to be a echnologically illiterate teacher?]

National Educarion Technology Standards- Students [|(NETS)] [|LeaderTalk] " Let's rethink what it is that we want to accomplish. Quite frankly, what IS it that we wish to accomplish? The bottom line is this: **//students should exit our educational system with excellence in problem solving and communication and an ability to continue their education beyond a formal preparation.//** This would prepare them for every eventuality. If we train them in regurgitation and finite sets of information, then we prepare them for YESTERDAY."
 * What are our objectives?**

[|Susan A. Gendron] made the announcement that her state was joining the Partnership’s State Leadership Initiative during the annual Council of Chief State School Officers’ Summer Institute, which is being held in Portland, Maine. “The skills students need to enter and advance in the work force today are far beyond what were needed even 20 years ago,” Gendron said. “High school graduates need a global awareness, work skills that include team-building, creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem-solving, self-motivation and self-direction skills, information, communications and technology literacy, as well as high levels of literacy and numeracy. If we think we can let some of our students graduate with less than that and still succeed, then we are fooling ourselves.”

[|Remote Access] "If you are looking for a few of the newest of the new careers that are emerging in our society, you may consider taking a look at: - Second Life lawyer - Disease mapper - Robot programmer - Information engineer or - Radiosurgeon [|CNN] has a short take on each of these new occupations. How are our classrooms and schools preparing kids to work in fields like this"

NETS -[|Essential Conditions] [|Daniel Pink] [|Johnny Bunko]
 * Other resources to help build a common vision:**

[|MIT Video lecture- Thomas Friedman- //The World is Flat//] A great resource to expose people to the concepts in the book. Mr Friedman discusses the first three chapters which layout the thesis of his work and explain his 10 world flattners.

[|Summary of The World is Flat- in PowerPoint] This was prepared under the name “Succeeding in a Flat World” as a career enhancement workshop by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

[|Did you Know?] This is a short video on the state of the world remixed from the original PowerPoint by Karl Fisch. [|3 Steps] Vidoe on looking at our classrooms in a new way

[|Connected Classroom]- A video that mixes Did you know with the concept of educating the students for their world.

[|Literacy?] Powerful video –Web2.0 –You are the machine

[|Pew Internet and American Life Project] Source for data and statistics

[|Digital Native Digital Immigrant] This link takes you to both articles but the page it will pull up also has a lot of other really good articles and resources on this issue and our growing understanding. (It includes the brain research)

[|Digital native- what it means for education.] Exploring the reality of how they get things done [|Time magazine] “How to Bring Our Schools out of the 2oth Century”