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 * National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)[| Vision 2021 initiative] asks the important questions:** **//What will schools be like in 2021?//** **//What will be the role of principals in 2021?//** **//What needs to be done today to prepare schools for the next generation?// [|Visit their blog]**

[|Empowering the 21st Century Superintendent]
Of all the challenges you face as a superintendent, technology leadership may be the one that leaves you feeling the most unprepared, uncertain and vulnerable.

**ISTE's NETS for Administrators 2009:** http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForAdministrators/2009Standards/NETS_for_Administrators_2009.htm
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=VIDEOS= http://www.speedofcreativity.org/resources/videos-for-pd/ http://movingforward.wikispaces.com/videos

=//Articles / Reports//=

[|Research Links via Delicious]

 * **[|2009 Horizon Report]**
 * **[|2008 NCTE Position Statement]**
 * **[|2007 - Edutopia - Future Shock]**
 * **[|2006 - TIME - How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century]**
 * **[|2006 - MacArthur Foundation - Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century]**
 * **[|2006 - NCSAW - Tough Choices or Tough Times (executive summary)]**
 * **[|2002 - Ten Trends for Educating Tomorrow's World - Gary Marx]** **from the //Journal of School Improvement//**
 * **Partnership for 21st Century Skills**
 * **[|Framework for 21st Century Learning]**
 * **[|Publications]**

=//Blog Posts//=


 * **[|Shift Happens -- Now What?]** **by Stephanie Sandifer on her Change Agency blog**
 * **[|Is It OK To Be a Technologically Illiterate Teacher?]** **by Karl Fisch at the [|Fischbowl.]**
 * **[|9 Principles for Implementation:The Big Shift]** **by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach on [|21st Century Collaborative]**
 * **[|Internet Safety Discussion and Resources] by Christopher Sessums on [|Eduspaces]**

**2008**

 * **[|Web 2.0 is the future of education]** **[Steve Hargadon - 4 March 2008]**
 * **[|Data-Driven Teaching]** **[Nicholas Hobar - 31 January 2008]**

**2007**

 * **[|On Leaving Teaching To Become A Teacher]** **[Clay Burell - 27 December 2007]**
 * **[|Classroom 2.0]** **[Andrew Robitaille - 15 September 2007]**
 * **[|A problem with blogs]** **[Jeff Utecht - 15 March 2007]**
 * **[|A problem with blogs continued]** **[Jeff Utecht - 22 March 2007]**
 * **[|Beyond comments]** **[Mark Ahlness - 23 March 2007]**
 * **[|The privacy gap]** **[Will Richardson - 26 February 2007]**
 * **[|The steep "unlearning curve"]** **[Will Richardson - 7 February 2007]**
 * **[|The future begins now: School 2.0 manifesto]** **[Christopher D. Sessums - 31 January 2007]**
 * **[|More on School 2.0]** **[David Warlick - 27 February 2007]**
 * **[|Pedagogy Defines School 2.0]** **[Jeff Utecht - 10 January 2007]**
 * **[|Some thoughts about School 2.0 -- Part 1]** **[Chris Lehmann - 5 January 2007]**
 * **[|Future of learning manifesto]** **[Christian Long - 4 January 2007]**
 * **[|Modified version]** **[Scott McLeod - 6 January 2007]**

**2006**
= = =//Books//=
 * **[|Beyond the digital native / immigrant dichotomy]** **[Wesley Fryer - 21 October 2006]**
 * **[|Did You Know?]** **[Karl Fisch - 15 August 2006]**
 * **[|Did You Know? 2.0]** **[Karl Fisch - 22 June 2007]**
 * **[|Talking to 49 superintendents]** **[Chris Lehmann - 31 May 2006]**


 * **Enriquez, [|As the Future Catches You]**
 * **Friedman, [|The World Is Flat]**
 * **Florida, [|Rise of the Creative Class]**
 * **Jenkins, [|Convergence Culture]**
 * **Papert, [|The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer]**
 * **Pink, [|A Whole New Mind]**
 * **Solomon, [|Toward Digital Equity]**
 * **Tapscott & Williams, [|Wikinomics]**

=OLPC (one laptop per child)= http://www.laptop.org/ http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/start/** Birmingham City Schools will be first in nation to get $200 XO laptops
 * http://www.olpcnews.com/
 * http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/12/birmingham_city_schools_will_b.html**

Educational Blogging
- [|List of Educational Bloggers] (SupportBlogging)[] - [|Blogs in Plain English] (video from [|CommonCraft])[] - [|Blogs, Wikis, & Video Blogging] (iBritt)[] - [|Blogging Resource] (Willard R-2 School District)[] - Blogging Resources (CLTNet Course)http://cltnet-blogs-wikis-podcasts.wikispaces.com

Twitter (microblogging) related:
- [|Twitter for Teachers Wiki] (wiki initiated by [|Rodd Lucier])[] - [|Advice for Teachers New to Twitter] (Liz B. Davis)[] - [|Twenty-Five Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom] ([|Tom Barrett])[] - [|Twitter Search for Plain English] (video from [|CommonCraft])[] - [|How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live] (Time Magazine)[] - [|Ten Things Teachers Should Know About Twitter] ([|Tony Vincent])[] - [|100 Excellent, Educational Twitter Feeds] (Learn-gasm)[] - [|Embracing the Twitter Classroom] (Huffington Post)[] - [|Twitter for Beginners] - Mashable[]

Relevant Articles & Blog Posts (A Sampler):
- [|Final Report | Digital Youth Research] - Researchers from Berkeley[] - [|Horizon Project (See 2009 Report)] - New Media Consortium[] - [|The Future of Online Learning: 10 Years On] - Steven Downes[] - [|Internet Safer For Kids Than We've Been Led to Believe] - David Weinberger[] - [|Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0] - John Seely Brown, Richard Adler[] - [|Teaching With Twitter] - David Parry (Chronicle of Higher Education)[] - [|Collective Intelligence? Nah. Connective Intelligence] - George Siemens[] - [|Teens & Social Media] - Pew Internet[] - [|Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age] - George Siemens[] - [|Beyond the Electronic Portfolio: A Lifetime Personal Web Space] - EDUCAUSE[] - [|Recut, Reframe, Recycle] - Center for Social Media[] - [|Social software and learning] - FutureLab[] - [|Educating the Net Generation] - EDUCAUSE[] - [|The Cluetrain Manifesto] - Levine, Locke, Searls, Weinberger[] - [|Teen Content Creators & Consumers] - Pew Internet[] - [|Knowing Knowledge] - George Siemens[] - [|What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education] - JISC[] - [|Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?] - EDUCAUSE[] - [|Pedagogical Affordances of Syndication, Aggregation, and Mash-up of Content on the Web] - Dieu, Stevens[] - [|Crash Course in Learning Theory] - Kathy Sierra[] - [|Contrived Collegiality]- Andy Hargreaves[] -[| A review of research on professional learning communities]- Vicki Vescio, Dorene Ross, Alyson Adams[] - [|Professional Learning Communities]- Annenberg Institute[] - [|Professional Learning Communities- Key Themes from Literature] - Stephanie Feger and Elise Arruda[]

=**Getting Up To Speed (Superintendents) - from [|CoSN's site]**= [|Digital Learning Spaces 2010] [|Hot Technologies for K-12 Schools] [|A Guide to Handheld Computing in K-12 Schools] [|CoSN EdTechNext mini-reports] [|E-Rate: A Vision of Opportunity and Innovation. Education and Library Networks Coalition, July 2003] [|E-Rate: 10 Years of Connecting Kids and Community. Education and Libraries Networks Coalition and National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training, February 2007] [|Essential Conditions: Necessary Conditions to Effectively Leverage Technology for Learning. International Society for Technology in Education] [|Maximizing the Impact: The Pivotal Role of Technology in a 21st Century Education System. International Society for Technology in Education, Partnership for 21st Century Skills and State Education Technology Directors Association, 2007] [|Networked for Learning: Enabling 21st Century Student Success. ENA and Infotech Strategies, 2006] [|Socratic Arts]**
 * [|Executive summaries of reports from CoSN's Emerging Technologies. Series: Collaboration in K-12 Schools: Anywhere, Anytime, Any Way]

= References from [|this article] by Vance Stevens** = Dieu, Barbara, and Vance Stevens. (2007), Pedagogical affordances of syndication, aggregation, and mash-up of content on the Web. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 1. Retrieved July 3, 2007 from: http://tesl-ej.org/ej41/int.html.

Grossman, Lev. (2006). Time's Person of the Year. Time Magazine, Dec. 13, 2006. Retrieved July 3, 2007 from: http://tinyurl.com/3chjkb.

Lessig, Lawrence. (2006). The Read-Write Society, a keynote given 15 September 2006 at the Wizards of OS4 conference, http://www.wizards-of-os.org/programm/panels/authorship_amp_culture/keynote_the_read_write_society.html; recording retrieved June 30, 2007 from: http://phalacrocorax.informatik.hu-berlin.de/fr/09_20h_ReadWriteSociety.mp4.

Prensky, M. (1998). Twitch speed: Reaching younger workers who think differently. Across the Board, January. Retrieved July 3, 2007 from: http://www.twitchspeed.com/site/article.html.

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. On the Horizon 9, 5. Retrieved July 3, 2007 from: http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf#search=%22prensky%22digital%20native%22%22.

Prensky, M. (2005). "Engage me or enrage me," What today's learners demand. Retrieved July 3, 2007 from: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0553.pdf.

Siemens, G. (2005). Connectivism: Learning as network-creation. Retrieved July 3, 2007 from: http://www.learningcircuits.org/2005/nov2005/seimens.htm.

Stevens, Vance. (2006). Revisiting multiliteracies in collaborative learning environments: Impact on teacher professional development. TESL-EJ, Volume 10, Number 2. Retrieved July 3, 2007 from: http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej38/int.html.

Toledo, Cheri. (2007). The Future of Teacher Education: Herding Cats and Chasing Targets. Presentation given at the Future of Education online conference. Retrieved July 3, 2007 from: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/foe-2007/Cheri_Toledo/